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Date with an Angel LIVE!

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "Date with an Angel LIVE!", an episode of How Did This Get Made? published February 13, 2026 (1 h 26 min, about 14,217 words). It mentions 9 people, works and ideas, including Date with an Angel, June Diane Raphael, Jason Manukus, Phoebe Cates, Emanuel Beart.

What this episode is about

"Date with an Angel" is a romantic comedy centered around a man with a brain tumor who unexpectedly falls in love with an angel sporting a broken wing. Set against the backdrop of 1987, the film has drawn comparisons to "Splash," and is discussed with a blend of humor and nostalgia, highlighting its cultural significance and impact.

Key takeaways

  • 1987's 'Date with an Angel': A rom-com proving even brain tumors can't stop a wild love story.
  • Splash ripoff or not, this movie channels angelic absurdity—complete with woodland nymph antics and animal antics.
  • Momentary shifts in plot can turn a movie from dreadful to delightful; 'Date with an Angel' nails the twist.
  • Giant sound stages and baby bears: Hollywood's commitment to authenticity knows no bounds—even in romantic comedies.
  • Phoebe Cates shines in a film where 'heiny' is a punchline, proving sheer talent transcends questionable scripts.

Who speaks in this episode?

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 10:00: Date with an Angel, June Diane Raphael, Minnesota, Jason Manukus
  2. – 20:00: Clash of the Titans, Date with an Angel
  3. – 30:00: Phoebe Cates
  4. – 40:00: Wendy's
  5. – 50:00: Date with an Angel, Emanuel Beart, Big Time Adolescence
  6. – 1:00:00: Date with an Angel, Emanuel Beart
  7. – 1:10:00: Wendy's
  8. – 1:20:00: Date with an Angel
  9. – 1:25:37: Date with an Angel

Notable quotes from "Date with an Angel LIVE!"

  • What up people of Earth? AND WHAT THE PEOPLE OF MINNEAPOLIS, we are live for the first time ever in Minnesota.
    about Minnesota · at
  • Can't wait to dig into this movie. But before I can, I must introduce you to my co-host. Please welcome to THE STAGE, MR. JASON MANUKUS.
    about Jason Manukus · at
  • Memory, but I never saw. And I want to see if someone else might have that same memory. Please welcome my other co-host, Miss June Diane Rael.
    about June Diane Raphael · at
  • Is all I'll say. I also took French. We didn't have anything that exciting, but I did once bring in for a school project as a kid Clash of the Titans and that had nudity and no one knew even myself and we didn't know how to react to it.
    about Clash of the Titans · at
  • Because she's Phoebe Kates were always on her side charmed by she's the most charismatic performer in the movie full stop.
    about Phoebe Cates · at
  • Was a deeply outofse unripe tomato slice on it? The tomato slice was like mostly yellow in the middle. And I was you this is a scathing indictment of Wendy's.
    about Wendy's · at
  • In voiceovers. the first one I was invited to do was a film called Date with an Angel in which Emanuel Beart played an angel who had fallen to Earth and the filmmakers wanted…
    about Emanuel Beart · at
  • Title: A movie that has remained as one of my favorites for decades.
    about Date with an Angel · at

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

  • June Diane Raphael — Person · Co-host / on-stage performer · 2 mentions · first at
    Introduced as a co-host and provides extended critique and comedic analysis of plot, character motivations, and themes (e.g., capitalism angle).
  • Jason Manukus — Person · Co-host / on-stage performer · 1 mention · first at
    Introduced as a co-host and participates throughout the live episode discussion, jokes, and audience Q&A about the film.
  • Phoebe Cates — Person · Referenced actor (discussed as standout performer) · 2 mentions · first at
    Repeatedly praised as the most charismatic performer and framed as the emotional center of the film being reviewed ("Date with an Angel").
  • Emanuel Beart — Person · Referenced actor (lead performer in film being reviewed) · 2 mentions · first at
    Discussed as the angel performer (mis-transcribed name); central to conversation about the character’s nonverbal 'voice' and the film’s odd creative choices.

Books & papers

  • Date with an Angel — Book · Primary recommendation · 9 mentions · first at
    The main focus of the podcast episode, discussed in depth as a romantic comedy film from 1987.

Companies & orgs

  • Wendy's — Company · Incidental · 2 mentions · first at
    Mentioned in passing during the discussion about the movie's content.

Places & events

  • Minnesota — Place · Setting · 2 mentions · first at
    The location where the podcast episode was recorded and the setting for some discussions.

Media & podcasts

  • Clash of the Titans — Media · Referenced work · 2 mentions · first at
    Mentioned in a personal anecdote about watching movies in school.
  • Big Time Adolescence — Media · Referenced work · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned in a personal anecdote about being mistaken for someone involved in the movie.
    And I never heard that. I didn't know what it was either. And I quickly Googled it. It's a machine gun Kelly Pete Davidson movie that came out two years ago. And he said, I watched that all the time when I was in high school.

Full transcript with timestamps

LISTEN UP, PISS HEAD. If you want a romantic comedy, look no further. WE SAW MY DATE with an angel. So, you know what that means? Baby whipping Justin Kelly show you from the move all the way to the road street just a sucker punch the That's a different way. How we staying alive? They call me a bad ass and he's on the line breaking cuz they cool as ice cuz the bad money looking kind of monkey shot in the bunch of movies making it great. Here's a real question for you. How did this get? What up people of Earth? AND WHAT THE PEOPLE OF MINNEAPOLIS,

we are live for the first time ever in Minnesota. And while it might be a little cold outside, we are here to warm your heart with a romantic comedy about a man with a brain tumor. who falls in love with an angel with a broken wing. Now, there's so much to say about this movie that came out in 1987. Is it a Splash ripoff? Yes, even though the people behind the MOVIE SAID, "WE WROTE IT WAY before Splash, but it came out after, so I don't believe that that is true." But we're going to break down everything and we have so much supplemental material. I can't wait to dig into this movie. But before I can, I must introduce you to my co-host. Please welcome to THE STAGE, MR. JASON MANUKUS.

What's up, jerks? How we doing, MINNEAPOLIS? THAT'S WHAT I'M talking about. Minnesota, we came here,

Jason. I'm exhausted already. It's cold. It's cold. A great cold. A great cold. I wore gloves.

I loved it. It was brisk. It was brisk. I loved every goddamn minute of it. I I walked here. I loved everybody here.

Jason, top three movies of 1987. Date with an Angel. Date with an Angel. Date with an Angel.

You would be right. I will say this. I remember it well. 1987. 1987 is a great year for this show.

15. Wow. All right. There you go. Great year for the show. Beverly Hills Cop 2, Platoon, Fatal Attraction. That's not on our show. That's the top three movies of the year. But listen to this. 1987 Garbage Pale Kids Movie, Hard Ticket to Hawaii, Miami Connection, Tough Guys Don't Dance, Munchies, Running Man, Superman 4, Hello Maryl, My Demon Lover, Made in Heaven, Jaws 4, Over-the-Top, and Masters of the Universe. Now, wait a minute. And in that list, we did Munchies. We did all of those.

What? We've done all those movies. We've done all of those movies. All of those sound terrible.

87. Great year for movies. And I cannot believe we've waited this long to talk about this one. A movie that was in my memory, but I never saw. And I want to see if someone else might have that same memory. Please welcome my other co-host, Miss June Diane Rael.

Welcome June. How are you? Oh, I get it. It was the angel. I missed it. I wasn't paying attention for a second.

That was amazing. You know what? As a matter of fact, it makes me want to just jump into one of the supplemental clips I have, but I'll wait. June, where do you fall? Do you remember this movie?

So, what it started, I said to Paul in the hotel room, I said, I feel like I've seen this before. And I have I I had an experience watching it where I was like, I have seen this movie before. This is the worst thing I've ever seen. This is my favorite movie. I love this movie. How long do I have till it's over? I hope it never ends. Like, I really was fraught the whole time.

This movie is a roller coaster ride. At every turn, I was like, "Oh, it's not what I thought." Well, wait a minute. Wait, who is this a love story for? The fact that the

Who are these people? The fact that the entire movie changes on a dime in the last 2 minutes.

Yes. I couldn't believe it. And explains everything. Everything gets explained in 30 seconds, then hard cut to credits.

I WAS LIKE, "WOW." OKAY. MOVIE. That's the thing. This movie goes there. This movie takes risks and there's a like a woodland nymph scene and there are I think like baby lions.

There's a skunk. There's there's she I believe she suckles a fawn. I'm 90% sure.

Yes. That Emmanuel Bear suckles a fawn. Yes. This movie was not cheap because they're on a giant sound stage and they are literally doing liveaction Bambi. I mean the way that those they're living amongst creatures like legit like a bear like you can't just be hanging out near a baby bear because when you hang out near a baby bear the mama bear is going to be close when you But that's what I'm saying. When you're watching, when you're rather watching the beginning of this movie and they're in the town and they're doing this, you don't even imagine that act three Snow White and in the forest nuzzling animals and then becoming an angel and flying around and then zapping people with lightning.

I was like, and pushing people pushing people hard. Yes, you're an angel. kicking people in the ass.

June. And then Oh, I'm sorry. He He was used so much. I wrote it down each time because I was like, "We need to bring Heine back. We need to be like, "Oh, check out the Heiney on this one."

I mean, let's take a look at the Heiney clip 10. Come on. Come on. You got to show yourself.

You kicked me my high knee. Where are you? Look, there's no need for this. Don't do this.

Nobody ever kicks me in my eyes. He did what? He hit me, daddy. And then he kicked me in my high knee.

Your hiny. What? Someone sat at a typewriter, not even a computer, and was like, "Yep, heiny."

My guess, my guess is it was written longhand and somebody was handed pages and was like,

"Again, just transcribing four high knees in a row from multiple people." Now, I have to say I think that Phoebe Kates deserves an Oscar for this.

Give her Give her Give her every Give her an EOT, please. She's up in here looking like a millennial who is eating ass.

She is that blood or dirt on her face? Her face planted after the hi. I thought it was blood too from getting

It's so crazy because I don't know. There's so much to talk about. I'm so worried about time. I'm like, do are we going to have enough time? And the time clock's not on, which is also why

we are out of time. We are in no time. But I think the movie wants us to believe that she's the wrong choice.

But she's so goddamn appealing and so wonderful. She's acting oddly the most normal out of anyone.

Here's the thing. Here's the thing. The movie should be about Phoebe Kates who is being like blown off by her fiance

who he's he is leaving her high and dry for an angel. I'm so sorry. No. But I would argue in splash does he have is he engaged? Is he getting married? Right.

No. He Why give him Why? Well, here's what I would argue that they even make a weirder and worse choice, which is he's not in love with her yet. Like, I feel like in the beginning he's like, I just want to take care of her and then he falls in love with her. So, I feel like his instincts are true. Like, I just want to help this angel. Even though he made out with her when he thought he was asleep, but I feel like he has nothing unourred until

he seemed really okay with that. when he thought when he thought he was dreaming. When he thought he was dreaming, he was like, "I guess I'm in a dream."

He did say, "I'm in a dream." You know what? He doesn't think he's dreaming when he double peeps at her when she's in the water.

And I was like, "Whoa, whoa, whoa. Are we going here?" To me, I think that that was the moment he finally fell in love. I was like, "You needed to get to that moment."

In my mind, in my mind, I'm like, "How is this angel going to bring and heal he and Phoebe Kates back together?" Like how is how is the Nope. The angel's like my guy.

Goodbye. And that's what's hard too about the angel character. Or maybe she's human and that's what happens. I don't know. But I It's so hard because I never thought that she was that into him until the very end. Like I was like this angel, he's misunderstanding like she just likes smoochies. like she loves to kiss and

right she does come smoochies. Yeah, she loves that's the that's the t-shirt. She just loves

She just loves smoochies. Just an angel, a silhouette of an angel and goes, "I love smoochies."

Because from the moment they met, she just seemed to want to kiss him. But it didn't seem like she I guess I felt like she'd want to kiss anyone if she was in that close proximity to them and if they weren't trying to like throw a net around her and steal her.

If Yes. As long as they're not This is a movie that exists in a time frame in which the lead guy is always like, I'm a guy. I'm trying to be better than than my past or whatever. And all of his friends are complete psychopaths.

Okay. No. All of his friends in this movie are murderous psychopaths. They treat her like an animal. Like an animal or a baby. It's ET. It's ET and Splash Splice together. They even do a phone home joke.

Yes, they do. Phoebe Kate says Drop Dead at one point. Yes, she does. As if it's

as if it's Drop Deadad Fred. I was like, what the [ __ ] is going on? Well, I will say this, you know, just to even walk it back. The beginning of the movie starts with what I'm assuming is God saying, "Go down there. You got to get your man. Go get him. He's ready." And I'm like, "Okay." And in my entire time I was like, "Oh, he was an angel and they're going to go like I didn't think that this man was dying. Like that's the twist. It's like go get that dying man." And if she So was he going to die the night of his bachelor party?

No. Yeah. Yeah. The night of the engagement party. She is supposed to at the very end of the movie we find out she was sent to earth to collect his soul so that he can ascend to heaven.

Then why doesn't the guy mention having a headache once? He he falls asleep a couple times.

He does he does repeatedly talk about headaches and he keeps trying to take pills.

Oh, I saw him take pills. But it's weird because it seems like he's hung over cuz he's hung Yes. We we to him. Nobody is believing that he has crippling headaches even though he says it repeatedly.

Okay. I I don't remember that. And and that's I just thought of something. Yeah.

Do you think she's trying to kiss him and it's the kiss of death? Oh. Oh. But you think that's why she keeps trying to kiss him?

But she she does kiss him, right? She doesn't really love smoochies. Smoochies equal death.

But you know that's death is more for the grim reaper, right? like a soul sucker.

Like a like a death eater. I I I see what you're saying. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I mean, if the angel comes to take you away, do they? I mean, I wouldn't mind if they gave me a smooch.

I wouldn't mind. Everybody loves smoochies. Death and Ascendancy to heaven was greeted with a kiss. With smooches.

That's lovely. Yeah. From a stranger who looks like Emanuel Barrett. Yes. Okay.

Um 100%. who I very first saw in the French movie Manandource, which was played in my high school French class and featured quite a bit of nudity.

This is I'm so glad I took French. This is all I'll say. I also took French. We didn't have anything that exciting, but I did once uh bring in for a school project as a kid Clash of the Titans and that had nudity and no one knew even myself and we didn't know how to react to it because we were too young. We were in fifth grade and all of a sudden

boobs and was like, "Ah." So, you didn't know? I didn't know. Oh, that's great. Yeah. And uh and the and we just all collectively agreed that we didn't see it. Like the class like ooh and the teacher never mentioned it cuz I think the teacher was afraid that she would have gotten in trouble if she didn't vet Clash of the Titans. But honestly, why were there boobs in Clash of the Titans? Why aren't there boobs in every movie?

Here's what I'll say about this movie, though. They set up a gun in act one and they pay off the gun in act three, which is it was so odd to be in this fancy house with a gun rack, like a old school like Midwest. Yeah. When she falls down the stairs holding a shotgun, I was like, "What the [ __ ] are we up to right now?"

But it's also a loaded shotgun. Like that shotgun is loaded in a in a closet in like a hallway closet. you. And this movie this every single person in this movie movie is absolutely out of control crazy.

She her father is sexually obsessed with her until he sexually obsessed with the angel. Like he's very easily swayed.

It's all business for him. But the se the the engagement party. Um I when when Phoebe Kates comes down the stairs past the giant portrait of herself, which I would pay thousands of dollars to own the portrait of Phoebe Kates that is in this movie, not a reproduction, the actual painting from this movie. I was like, "This is incredible." when he starts pulling out the makeup or the whatever the ad campaign and grabbing her and I was like, "What the [ __ ] is going on here? This is BB Kate's movie

and it's not it's not it's not at all." Well, and he's purring at her, which was so

creepy. It's and it also felt like this is their engagement party. There was no one under 60 in that room. I was weirded out about that. But then as as you're taking that in, as you're loading that into your head, all of a sudden you see terrorists in a car and you're like, "Wait, hold on. What a And and we've already just come from heaven." So we're like, "Heaven, engagement party terrorists." You're like, it is that that's five minutes.

That's that's to me why this movie is a masterpiece because it's it's going places. Now, I did Yes. Did I think to myself, I wonder if it's his bachelor party? But for a second, I didn't know. And I was like, oh, is this going to be like an elderly blood bath? Like what

I also What is going to happen? This is fun. If this is the movie, what a blast.

Uh if if it's terrorists come and kidnap the groom, the groom who's outside in the rain playing harmonica like he's [ __ ] Bruce Willis in 1987 with a blues career. I was like, "What the fuck?"

Well, this is what I couldn't understand. I mean, keep in mind the whole time he's dying of a growing tumor in his head. But

which does reframe his whole aravior? Yeah. Knowing that he has the tumor, you almost believe the angel was a vision.

Absolutely. That would be great if they if no one else saw her. But she's very much real. And she very much is an angel. Like the tumor is just the reason that she's there. But she is real. Make no mistake. But but I'm trying to really understand what's happened to his music career because he's gone to college. He's a composer,

but I think I think his tumor has stopped him from composing. I think so. Wow. Yeah.

I think he has like lost his way partially because of the headaches and partially because I don't know but

it's been slow growing. Yeah. But then he also slow growing tumor that is now going to kill him except for an angel's kiss.

But I also don't really get anyone's character because like how would you describe him? Is he a partyier?

Not really. He's nothing. He's dying of a brain tumor. Yeah, that's the only thing we need to know about him.

Interesting character trait is not revealed until the last literal minutes of the movie. And but then

boy, would it have been great to start with I guess God's voice. Then we cut into boop boop. It's not looking good. Jim Jim is his name is his name Jim. It's not looking good. Blah blah blah. And he's like, "Well, at least I have the love of a of of a of a good woman. Great. We're getting married. Great. Okay, Phoebe Kates is there." Now he's like, "Oh no, an angel is here. Okay, now this is interesting." But the first time we meet him, yes, he's in the rain completely dry. feel like they didn't really want to get him wet to do retakes. So, they're like he's he's the umbrella got him. It's like he would be soaked. Uh and he and we meet him. He's like funny guy. Like this is and I and and no offense I I love this actor. This is

I thought he was wonderful. This is Tad. Tad. Who? Tad. Tad from All My Children. I grew up with Tad. I thought Tad was the coolest. I don't think Tad is a comedic actor. Yes. And Tad I I'm I'm sorry. I don't know the actor's name, so I'm just gonna keep going. Tad I don't Tad is his name now.

You know, because I will say, and I alluded to it, but the movie shares so much in common with Splash that it is shocking. Truly shocking. But Splash has Tom Hanks. Yes. The absolute charm of Tom Hanks is going to get you pretty far. And Tad is doesn't have that charm. Possibly because the brain tumor is pushing pushing against the part of the brain that that gives you charm. But

I'm not rooting for him. Mostly mostly because he's [ __ ] over my girl Phoebe Kate.

That's the thing. He seems to want to hang out. He wants to hang out more with the party ninjas. He's really set up to fail. And and I was so ready for the scene between the angel and Phoebe Kates. I was like, I need this I need this scene. I need this reconciliation. I need this healing for all of us and we never got it and it was so hard.

Can I also ask a question about Splash and I I forget Madison in Splash? That's Daryl Hannah's character. She does talk a little bit, right? Yes. And has a name, right? Yeah.

As a name and talks and that's two things that are denied. It's a romcom without one person who speaks. And it's like

they can't have chemistry. They can't have chemistry if all she if her only choice is to be like

to just be constantly leaning in to give a death smoochie. That's the shirt. Death time.

Time for you to die. But I think that they try to get Tad to be interesting because when you first see him, he's like doing that baseball playbyplay and but that's like it's too long and it's not funny. And it's not funny for multiple reasons, but I would say one of them is

what are we like what are we trying to get from that? Like I don't even get that he's carefree. I

It's so hard because he's set up like that that moment. We think it's B Phoebe Kates's movie, but like when she comes out to get him, I know we're supposed to think this guy is hot and charming and but for me I'm like get inside.

Go in engagement party. Get inside. Infuriating. It's suggesting that he has cold feet. And I don't know why or if he does or he's he's harmonying. Uh here comes the bride into a funeral.

He's pouting. Yeah, he's pouting for reasons that are never explained. I feel like the movie wants us to think they shouldn't be together. Him and Phoebe Kates, he doesn't want to be married to her. He's just waiting for his angel to I think that's what that's why he's equivocating or something. But it doesn't make sense because I'm immediately on her side and I'm like, "This [ __ ] piece of [ __ ] sucks."

I think I think I'm serious. [ __ ] this guy. I felt the same way. I felt the same way.

[ __ ] this guy. I hope the devil comes and marries Phoebe Cage. I can't believe, by the way, I'm going to blame this on Phoebe Kates, but I really think that role was written. She's a model. She's supposed to be super close to her dad. Well, she models in the camp.

Dad was like, "You're my perfect model. Come here, smoochie. Smoochie." Like, I feel like

Don't do that to me again. I don't like that. Don't do that. I don't like that. Cuz I mean, clearly the dad is

smoochy. The dad is Oo, smoochy smoochy. The dad is Let's all hope all of us tonight later we're like, "How about a little smoochy smoochie?

Mooji, smoochy." I feel like the dad wants her to be a model. And the reason why the whole company's going down the drain is cuz they react so negatively to her face. The company's going under because of her face.

Okay, but this is But I know all of this, but I think I know all of this. I watched this. I understand

expert on this movie. This I know. But I think again that's what the movie is showing us. And I think that's probably how it was written. I think she was also probably written to be a little frumpy. Like the red dress I think was supposed to look ill-fitting and unflattering on her,

especially later. She's in like she appears to be wearing men's briefs over pants at one point. But unfortunately like she just always looks beautiful and even when she's called to just like be shrill and reacting and screaming because she's Phoebe Kates were always on her side charmed by

she's the most charismatic performer in the movie full stop. It just you can't take your eyes off of her. She's hilarious

and she does an incredible job with what she has. I mean, she also says the line that it's something like my dad's acting like a he's in a real poo poo mood. And I after she did it, I really thought to myself, okay, June, if you saw that in a script, like how do you how would you approach it? Like what? You have to say it. It's in there. You have to say it. Like you have to find your way into that.

Aaron wrote it. You can't change it. You can't change the goddamn thing. You have to say it. And I was like, I don't think I can. I don't think I'm I'm good enough to do that. So, she is truly one of the best we have.

I will say this. She's one of the best we have. No, of course, our love for Phoebe Kates is is well documented in this podcast. But I do want to point out one thing about her that when she gets kicked in the Heiney, her response is, "Where's my gun?"

Yeah. Like her immediate response is, "Now I'm going to shoot you. I'll show you. I'll show you. Where's my rifle? She has a shotgun." She's like, "I'm going to kill you for kicking me in the high." That was after kick one. Not even kick two. She's ready to kill this thing.

She is. By the way, I wish she had. I did, too. I was like, I wish she had killed Tad and then she and the angel fell in love. That's a movie I'm going to think about in the hotel later. But can we talk about I think the most charismatic the most charismatic trio are the party ninjas. The party ninjas.

Holy [ __ ] I love the party ninjas because they are not cool. They seemingly aren't that fun and they're real dumb. And like the bachelor party seems to have been for four people.

Yeah. And there might have been women there because when they come in they're like let's see this woman. It's like no I think that's the the they had like a 16 mm porno called the tender bartender.

Are you being serious? I'm so sorry Paul. Did you not see that the tender bartender was featured prominently? I was too busy looking at the blowup doll.

I was looking at the pin the tail on the donkey and I was like that was part of the bachelor party. That's the worst bachelor party in history.

But also and they all left him. I I know this is like neither here nor there, but in terms of like the cadence of wedding events, it was too early for a bachelor party. Like we're just doing the engagement party. We've just announced this.

It also Oh, I see. I I agree with you because I the minute they were saying, "Oh, it's your bachelor party." I was like "Oh

is the wedding in the next few days? Is this imminent? Are we Is the clock ticking now? Is this movie going to end at a wedding?" By the way, it should have. Wouldn't that have been much better?

Nope. In the forest? Nope. Yes. None of Baby Deers. Get me more Baby Deers. In a clubhouse we have no reference for. Perhaps no movie in our entire history have I thought every step of the way I understood where this movie was headed. And is you dead ass wrong.

The party ninjas get I'm going to say 40 legitimate news outlets to show up to show up to some place called the press club where they live in the suburbs so that they could debut an angel from heaven. But meanwhile, meanwhile, the party ninjas seem to run a theater where they could have simply held

Well, they're in Oh, they are. You mean the place where that's located? Yeah, that's the press club.

No, no, no, no, no. Guys, their home, I think, is the Party Ninjas live above like a theater set shop.

Oh, thank you. Okay. So, they don't run that theater. That's just where their law is. mean George and Rex and the other guy are just hanging out above a None of it makes sense.

By the way, I this is a small issue that I have with the party ninjas. Our main guy, our bachelor Tad, when he wakes up drunk with the with the uh inflatable girl, he his tie is just slightly a skew. His tie never came off for the bachelor party, nor did it get very a skew. It was sort of like the first move that you make if you get in the car like uh it it just stayed in like a It was still very high up on the neck. He looked unpartied.

Oh, he was fine. He looked totally fine except for the brain tumor. Yes, except for the gigantic brain tumor. Then splash. We hear a splash. Water pours into the apartment. I listen I'm no scientist but when we when we go back out

to that pool and see the water displacement yes from her 120 lb body not even not barely with the wings 120 lb

but she has lifted out like I want to say four feet of water. Oh yeah it's it's 6 in of water in the house.

Okay. I thought about it for so long cuz I'm like, well, you are falling from heaven, so that's a that's a certain wings coming down. But

did her wings break? Like, I'm assuming she was flying and she may have hit like a power line. Like, so I don't think that she fell from that high.

Hold on a second. Hold on. Oh, whoa, whoa. Hold on. There seems to be a good answer. Somebody here will know.

Sir, what's your what's your what's your name? The man Paul. Be careful of the man in a putter in a bra shirt. I knew he was safe cuz he was an official voice.

Be careful. All right. Why is her wing broken? Cuz she hit the satellite. Oh, she hit the satellite.

Somehow I missed that. Somehow we all missed that. But all of you watched it. Keith, tell me what happened.

So, she's sent on her merry way by God and she's headed towards Earth and then all of a sudden a satellite comes out of nowhere.

Do we see this? Yes. Oh, and then when it's a POV. Okay, we have a POV POV shot from Earth's point of view.

She was like wearing a GoPro. That's the footage we saw. Wow. How did I miss this?

God, we sometimes I don't pay attention. This movie sounds a lot better from Keith's point of view.

Okay, so she broke her. So, this is kind of a commentary on Star Wars. Not the movie, but the the arms race satellites in the sky. You know, it's very preient

Reagan era star. Yes. So that's how she breaks her wings. She falls. All right. So a satellite, if you don't mind me just backing up for one second to the party when Tad is pouting out in the rain, Phoebe. And he is embarrassing cuz these are not young people. They should have been. This movie would have been better if they were all in high school or something like that. If they were young, you know what I mean? But they are old. Old enough to know better. and he's pouting in the back. She comes out there and she goes, "You know, they all hate you."

Yeah. You know, everyone in our families hate you. And then, you know, and I do, too. I'm with everyone else. I also hate you, Dad. But it's such lazy writing, too, because the way they make Phoebe Kates unlikable. He's like, I know, no more fun. like she's always saying no more fun and that's like a weird thing

and the party ninjas are actively trying to sabotage her in a way that's like you know I think like toxic beyond George is a true psychopath

yeah when they came out with that net was what the the party ninjas are the government in ET

absolutely I absolutely they are like animal control trying to capture this. But first of all, they're trying to market the angel to this guy. I don't know who the [ __ ] this guy is. They're trying to sell the angel. The angel is yet not a commodity. It's like me trying to sell ET a year before ET comes out. I'm like, and he's a little guy, big eyes. Phone home. I'd be like, what? What are you talking about? Like you can't pre-ell like merch. Like we got the bumpers, we got the shirts. It's like for what? For what?

Oh no. And they don't even have her yet because their big thing is like we got to get her in a net and then we'll lure her away with French fries. We got a French fry. I was like, these [ __ ] maniacs need to be put down. But what I do like

should be shooting these guys with a gun. But what I do like about them is that they do provide a dress code for the press conference. Yeah, you guys can dress casual to the press. You tell the press how to show up. Like never is like, uh, yes, we'll be covering the event. What's the dress code? Oh, casual. Okay, got it. All right, got it.

Can you imagine? Hey, we're doing a formal press conference. Ted does camera. You got to wear tux. Ah, not again. You know,

can you imagine a world in which you have a forreal angel? Now, you also have a catastrophic brain tumor. So, who knows? But you have a four real angel. You go into a church with an angel and the priest is like, "Go tell it to the Baptists." The church would be so excited to have an angel, they would be like, "We [ __ ] did it." HOLY [ __ ] it's real. They would be so excited. She's up there doing angel [ __ ] and he's like, I don't want to look at it. Get out of here. Well, that's the thing with this movie.

Interestingly, there was in a on a newspaper headline, it said that priest from that church was moved to a different parish

because Well, he only moved to a different parish to get better weed. Yeah. And you'll notice when he was around, Rex was like, I don't want to hang out with him. him smoking weed in

too far. Minneapolis what? Minneapolis very religious town. Oh no, don't say that. That was the thing that was so interesting is like whenever there is a choice to make. You don't need to make it weirder like that's a priest. He's holding confession. Let's give him a joint. Wait, why? Why are we over complicating it? Because we are dealing in a world of such crazy fantastical nature. You're not I'm all for it. Like, yes, she's an angel, but no one questions it. It's like, she's an angel. Got it.

No one's like, "Check her wings." No one has a qu No, she's not. She's just a cook. Nope. Okay. Yeah, she's an angel. She's an angel. Oh, everyone bought it.

It's like It's like everybody in this movie has been waiting for this and it's just like happens to be today, but it's not It isn't really a surprise

or it's like there's other angels. It's a world in which there's lots of angels and we just got one here. I mean, that's not the case, but everybody does feel very okay with it.

I will say I thought she handled some of her comedic beats quite well. The French fry sequence I laughed at. You know,

was she upset that I had a laugh at the hamburger was made of meat? I got to be,

but how would she even know? Or that it was a deeply outofse unripe tomato slice on it? The tomato slice was like mostly yellow in the middle. And I was like, you this is a scathing indictment of Wendy's.

So scathing. I also don't think it was a square burger. Was it? No. No, it wasn't

a square burger. Know that Paul and I someone his mom had bought us a uh like private sushi chef for our first year anniversary. And this woman

Paul's head is going to pop right off. This woman arrives at our apartment many years ago and she's

My mom's like, "You guys love sushi." So, I got you a private sushi chef at your house.

Long story short, it's a little uncomfortable to have this person in our home. And Paul and I are like doing small talk with her.

Can I also say the most uncomfortable thing about it? And and not to be offensive in any way, it was just a white woman And

yeah, and there was something about it that just felt like just very very strange. It's like what are we all doing here?

I like sushi. I've gone to I go to a lot of different restaurants. I can remember twice when it was white people and it once was in my house and the other time was in Hawaii and that man was surrounded by Asian people who who made fun of him for being white. It made me feel better. Yes. So, there were so many things happening and we had to do about four hours with her and

but during this is a notoriously quick meal. This wasn't this wasn't because she's in her home. We didn't and it was also we had a tiny apartment. There was nowhere for us to go and not be with her.

So, we're watching her wash her knives. We're watching and we're also helping her. were doing her dishes. Like it was very strange.

We barely had a kitchen. We had like a small counter space. Yes. So the whole interaction was so terrible. But just to go back to tomatoes for a second, this is where I really started to get worried because she said to us,

you know what I'm about to say. She said, we're talking about food and I and I said, so have you spent any time in Japan? Just trying to get to what her experience with sushi is. And she said, yeah, I did. She did. And then she said, "But I what I really love is every day I go to Subway and I get a Subway sandwich and the tomatoes, the way they slice them so thin." And I'm thinking to myself, the Subway tomatoes are they're like the tomatoes in this movie. They are

they're not real tomatoes. And they they like literally don't have a taste. But you guys wanted to let you know Subway has stepped up their game. Oh god, you can't be preparing sushi for people and

Patrick Mahomes told me the slice of their own meats. Him and Steph Curry sign off on it.

Wait a minute. This feels like promotion. Um, you can't be in that situation and then just waxing about the Subway tomato. She also gave us a tip for eating sushi the right way, which was wrong. She's like on a between two halves of a six six inch

sub roll. She's like, "You got to put it in the roll." I don't know if that was wrong.

A little oil. It was wrong. A mayo. All right. You want this sushi Mike's way? Put some balsamic on this ai. Um, what? I was at a restaurant the other day. I was at a restaurant in Maine the other day and I said, "I'll get the grilled salmon." And the waitress said, "You like salmon?" I was like, "OH, WHAT?" I was like, "Wait, it sounds like you don't like this?" She was like, "I hate salmon." I was like, "Please tell me how you really feel." And I'm saying this all, but all of it had like the heaviest Bostony Massachusettsy. So she was like, "Oh my god, you like salmon? Oh, I think salmon is disgusting." I was like, "What are you talking about?" And I was like, "Yeah, I'm going to get it anyway." I got it. It was delicious.

And she came by and she was like, "What did you think of that salmon?" And I was like, "Yeah, I thought it was absolutely delicious." She was like, "Gh." She was like, "The owner said he wants me to get a picture with you. He knows who you are. I have no idea who you are."

I love her. I love her. Let's do this. I love this woman. I was like, I'm home.

Last night, I did uh take a compliment for John Crier. Um, someone came up to me and said, "I just want to say

big time adolescence meant a lot to me." And I was like, "Uh-huh." And I never heard that. I didn't know what it was either. And I quickly Googled it. It's a machine gun Kelly Pete Davidson movie that came out two years ago. And he said, "I watched that all the time when I was in high school." And I'm like, "You look like you're in high school now. This movie came out 2 years ago. you can't rap uh po, you know, rapsotically about this uh whatever. I said, "Oh,

this is this episode has the most usage of rapsotic in podcast history." And I and I said I said, "Oh, thank you so much. Thank you so much." You didn't correct him. I love that.

Had a great time making it. Machine Gun Kelly weird guy, but we had fun. Um God,

holy [ __ ] I'll never correct anyone. Even the guy who once said I was Robin Williams

at airport security TSA going through LAX. Wow. Guy's like, "I know you." And I was like, "Oh, hey." And he's like, "I know who you are. Funny guy." And I was like, "Oh, thanks so much." And he's like, "Robin Williams." And I laughed and I was like, "Ah, right." He goes, "Very funny guy." And then I was like, "Oh, he's not joking." He's like, "I'm not going to blow up your spot, Robin Williams." And and Robin Williams had been dead for some time. What? Holy [ __ ] You should have, as you were walking away, been like, "Hey, bro, Google me."

And then leaned in for a smoochie. I was the angel coming back. goes to Robin Williams today.

Oh my god. Holy [ __ ] My favorite moment in this movie was Tad who lives in the town.

He lives there, drives to the gas station, GOES, "WHERE'S THE PRESS CLUB? You live here, man. You would have the you would have an equal amount of knowledge of the town." Also, forgive me, but what's a press club? It seems to be a place where press conferences happen in a small town.

A tiny town. Is there is there use for that? Is that a real thing? Am I just being a fool? I don't know. It didn't even look like it looked like a like a high school auditorium stage.

When Phoebe Kates and her father are having a screaming match and her only option is to put herself into the closet, I was like, "Yes, this is the movie. This is the movie I want to watch." When she comes out with a hanger, like I'm going to [ __ ] my dad up with this hanger. I'm like, "Yes, the dad and the priest are creeps. Get them both out of here. Let Phoebe be Phoebe. Bring in Fred. Fred [ __ ] the angel."

Oh my god. Well, I was trying to understand like what the difference between the angel gaze was and just like her falling in love with Tad because it's like, well, everybody's under her spell at points, but they're not getting the kiss of death. They're not going to be transported into another dimension.

She wants to catch everybody. She hypnotized. They seem affected by her, but I don't know that they she is um as into them. I see. So, because I think what a part of what's happening is just like they're falling in love with women who don't speak

and there's this sort of like trans fiction. She's like a villa. She's like a vila in the Harry Potter story. Like she is like a beauty that people can't help but be like, you know, the dad is like the best example. He's like, "Absolutely not. You have a like like absolutely not."

I believe I believe that angels have this like like the way Crocodile Dundee could hypnotize animals with the two fingers, you know? He could do that. I feel like the angel

You're doing a lot of finger work this tour. I did. I I The other night it was this.

This none of us liked it. None of us liked it. Tonight it's this. But I remember like but Crocodile does.

Do you remember in the So I'm so sorry. In the movie when he wakes up after the bachelor party and he's got the the blowup doll. He puts it aside. He does this.

He does. He sniffs. I didn't see that. Sniffs his fingers. God his own fingers as if to say, "Oh no. Did I do something stupid?

Nope. I'm okay." What? Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. There's a dead There's a dead angel in the pool. Oh no. Oh, we partied too hard.

The stripper's dead in the pool, man. But that's Wow. He sniffs his fingers. I did not. I did not see that or I blocked it out.

It's got to be an improvised moment because all I I think a lot I think a lot of like funny business stayed in this movie. But to your point, June, I I do think that yes, um the angel has powers, but she's not at full power until her wing is fixed. But I will say this, you say she doesn't talk. I think she is talking. And as a matter of fact, um we have supplemental clip four. I'd like to show you how the voice came to be. the kind of work that I've done in film in in voiceovers. Um the the first one I was invited to do was a film called Date with an Angel uh in which Emanuel Beart uh played an angel who had fallen to Earth and um the filmmakers wanted her to make otherworldly sounds. Uh and evidently all she could think of to do was squeak. And so when they test marketed the film uh and this beautiful woman opens her mouth uh a squeak comes out and the audience fell on the floor laughing. Well, that wasn't necessarily

what they wanted. Um and so the sound designer uh contacted me and said, you know, can you help us? So I they flew me out to Los Angeles and uh we worked on a sound stage and I basically replaced her voice for about 90% of the film. Uh we did three uh complete separate tracks. One was a more musical track, one was um sort of strange sounds, otherworldly sounds, and one was speechike but not too speech-like. Um, and then uh so they used that the the the sound designer uh mixed my sounds with um other sounds that that he had and came up with this composite voice uh for her.

And so she created it as something called I'm obsessed with that woman. I'm absolutely

her first job. Yes. And she created something called otherworldly speech. So supplemental clip five. We'd like to play some other worldly speech because she does perform otherworldly speech.

Okay. So, this is solitary journeys of the mind. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Angel. Angel. Angel. Angel. Angel. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. A date with an angel. I'm on a date with an angel.

Press club. All right, we can kill that. That is um Holy [ __ ] That is a five That is a five and a half minute a five and a half minute improvisational musical piece.

Five and a half minutes. I find it, put a beat to it, like this could be Enya. I could believe this could be Enya. This could be this is this is better than the whole movie.

Wow. Wow. So, it's so interesting that she said they took those sounds and smashed them together because all I heard were squeaks.

I mean, all I heard was whale noise. It felt like so much so that at the end of the movie when she says she's been sent back here by God to heal him and also make music with him, I was like with that voice.

Yeah. No, it was. And it's especially clear there are moments where and I wonder if in the script they wrote lines for the angel because there are scenes in which she is trying to have she's trying to communicate with there is there are scenes that appear as though they are having a conversation but she's doing dolphin sounds and he is kind of like okay

I mean most of the movie too he's just talking at her and kind of filling in what she might be saying.

And we're supposed to believe that for them this is what it is to fall in love to have a foundational inability to communicate using language. But it would make I think that the fact that Tad is so earnest makes it less fun, right? Because if he was like a little like he's so earnest and she's so earnest. I'm just like watching two people just be very earnest with each other and it's bumming me out. Like it's like I'm like where there it's it's slow. And they originally wanted Jim Carrey for this um and they said

for the angel. No. No. They wanted Jim Carrey as the lead and he um they said no, he's too funny. We don't want funny. We want leading man. It's it's interesting because I wonder if Jim Car Jim Carrey in like Taken down a notch Jim Carrey would have been incredible in a affable Tom Hanksy way. I just don't know if you would have been able to

It's so hard cuz again we're never going to be on Ted's side because he has a fiance.

Yes. Who has done nothing to deserve this treatment. So it's Yeah. He's always a villain. And this and again, this angel, an agent of God on high, is here stealing someone else's man.

And like, "Fuck her. LET'S GO. LET'S GET OUT OF HERE." She's kicking Phoebe Kates's ass in the woods.

And then also, but also like then the end of like, "What? Is that your guy? I'm going to [ __ ] take your guy. Don't worry about it." But the end of the movie is also this moment where it's like God actually wants you to make music. Like we got to make music together. That's a crazy end. But he's like God is like yeah this guy's got the goods. Like

that's what I I could I actually couldn't understand when you said the last two minutes explained everything. I was like not for me. It didn't.

I mean it gave you information that made a little sense of some of what was going on. Well, it makes sense why he falls asleep

in the middle of the movie when like he's looking for her and they're at the press conference like he wakes up. I'm like,

"Wait, so he was looking for her and he just fell asleep and Well, he does that a number of times. Okay.

He in in the woods in the woods. He's just kind of like Right. It's I would say the the brain tumor is played very low. Like it's it's Yes. It's like it's like it's like background noise. If I really focus on it, I'm like, "Yeah, you've given me clues." But it's not like shocking me because I'm watching a priest smoke a joint. I'm watching guns get fired. I'm watching a girl put underwear on. I'm watching a guy get bit on the movie. Is it a better movie if she's not an angel, but to him because of his tumor, he thinks she's an angel?

Yes. And everybody else just is smitten with this beautiful woman, but he thinks she's some sort of from another, you know, blah blah blah. And that that is because there it none of it adds up and they just keep throwing stuff at you to be like, "Oh, what if he's got a brain tumor?" Uh,

or dare I say it and I know that we forbid it. Is it better as a Jacob's ladder scenario?

For who? For him. And we And it's like they've all been around his bed the entire time. He's imagined the entire thing. What if it's a Jacob's ladder scenario for the stripper at the bachelor party who dies in the pool? Done.

Who imagines whose dying dream is that she's an angel who is rescued from this wretched existence by this man and curries God's favor so that they can become musicians together. That's the movie. All right, let's see what the audience has to say here. Got a lot of people with questions. Maybe there's a theologian in the house. I don't know.

Maybe there's an angel. What's your name and your question? My name is Sarah and my question is, has have you ever received a telegram as good as the ladybug?

Oh, this is something that I did want to talk about. The love bug. Love bug. A love bug is I I laughed a number of times in this movie. That was one of them. And I was like, this is the part I would get in this movie.

This or probably George. The love bug is a singing telegram who delivers the singing as they are leaving. Like the singing was a side effect of the telegram. happens at the end and then is all of his exit is just maniacal laughter. It's like your boyfriend better love this. And then later in the MOVIE HE DRIVES BY IN HIS LOVE BUG WHEN HE when he's getting into his car AND HE'S LIKE THAT'S MY SON.

Give me a movie about the love bug. Hi. What's your name and what's your question?

Uh, hi, I'm Cassie. So, in the massive exposition dump we get in the last like 30 seconds and she can suddenly speak. Um, part of it she explains that she has now been brought down to earth for her good behavior, which raised some implications that in addition to not having a name or a voice, angels perhaps don't even have free will. But also, are angels capable of bad? Are angels on like a w like are they being mon? They're they're [ __ ] angels.

Shouldn't they be exemplified of good behavior? I Well, that that was what Yes. If you are an angel, you've already done your good behavior.

You know, the whole idea. Wait a second. So, you think an angel is someone who has died and and come to heaven?

Satan was an angel. Satan was an angel. You're right. Satan was a fallen angel. We make sure that that is clear. Someone just yelled,

"Satan was an angel." And it was like save just in case it wasn't picked up. It was said like this in a moment of chilling silence. As if the audience knew this person would need to say this. Someone said, "Satan was an angel. Satan was an angel.

Thank you for quoting Metallocalypse lyrics at me. I will say this though, as soon as he said it, the whole theater now smells of sulfur.

Yeah, there's a [ __ ] goat's head on stage. All right, your name and your question.

My name is Allison and my question is Hi. Hi. Hey guys. Do you think this movie is about capitalism?

Explain. I like it. Tell me. So the the friends when they meet the angel, their first response is to get money, monetize it, and also the Phoebe Kate's dad, his first response is to make her the model.

Yeah. It's all about when she fails, he doesn't care about love. He wants to find another way to get money. Well, and he doesn't care about his daughter at all. He just cares about getting the

dad is a communist, I think. So, I like it. I like this. I do believe this is a scathing indictment of 20th century capitalism.

So far, this would be taking down regonomics, taking down Star Wars. This is in the greed is good Gordon Gecko era of uh American greed. Everybody just sees an angel and sees dollar signs. But the other thing is, and I keep on going back to this, they accepted her as an angel. She does nothing angelic. She's got these wings. I mean, that's pretty angelic.

But she does have wings and is an angel, but we haven't checked them out. No one goes, "Let me see.

What do you want to do with that? Do you think there are angel wing authenticators? What's this? What is this?

I've seen that show with Rebecca antics. They dress people up like panthers and [ __ ] You go to Heidi Clum's Halloween party, you're going to see [ __ ] angel wings. I watch Victoria's Secret shows. They got angel wings. You do? Check it out.

How often do you watch the an the Victoria's Secret angel wings to study for this? A lot.

But I mean, but no one goes like, "Let me touch those shoulders. Let's What do we got?"

I don't like that. I don't like the way you said that. I I don't like any of this. By the way,

I like when Paul says, "Let me touch those shoulders." Sort of like take a look under the wings to make sure they were really like you wanted someone to tug on them.

Oh, so Paul think Paul, you are positing that she is a scam artist. That my first instinct would be check them wings.

Yeah. Show me what's under the hood. Show me your wings. I grew up show I grew up in New York. You're going to tell me an angel. You got to prove it. do some sort of magic and let me touch them wings.

Wow. I agree. I'm not gonna take you at face value. I would I agree. I would be skeptical as well. I would be skeptical as well. I would want to see where those wings join.

First of all, she doesn't have to prove to either of you that she's an angel. Okay.

But the minute she makes dolphin sounds, I'd be like, "Oh, classic angel." When she was hypnotizing one of the party ninjas, I thought they were going to pull like a little like a little switcheroo and she's like, "Behind this curtain, an amazing angel." And then you're like, "Oh." When he reveals it, it's going to be like the party ninjas with the pants down or something and then the angel's going to be gone. But no, she's still tied up in a chair. And then you hear a reporter go, "Oh, that's not right."

Yeah. Well, they've got her tied into a chair. They've got a a a cloth over her mouth to stop her from doing hypnotic chirping. They take it off. Then they put her then they put one around her eyes as well. Do they at one point it's

they have a press conference for a kidnapped woman. This is like it it really is. They bring they bring out a woman tied to a ch they bring out a hostage. They're like we have a hostage

and this is like we are from Abu Grae. We have this. Why cover up her wings then? Like that's actually when we need to see them. Oh, the choices that these men make.

Thank you, June. Check them wings. Check them wings. Yes, now I'm on your side.

I will say I think the t-shirt for this episode should be the t-shirt that they hold up when they're in

when they're in the patent office or whatever. Holy [ __ ] I wish the movie had now been about just party ninjas. Okay, your name, your question.

Hi, I'm Megan. Uh, my question is what? Hi, Megan. Hi, Jason. Uh, what is the angel manual that he's reading in the treehouse where he's like, "Oh, according to the book, your powers are fully recovered."

Wait a second. That book was in the treehouse. I thought he got that from the library.

He did, but he checks it out from the library and brings it to the treehouse. Oh, yeah. He's doing a lot. house had like a colorful cover and the book in the library had like a leatherbound like old book.

The library in this town has access to books from the 13th century. That's a no way. The library in this town has books that only Giles from Buffy has access to. Okay, that's what we're talking about here. This is not real books. And Tad is up here reading about angels like he's cracking the code. He's too dumb. But

he's way too dumb. Here's a book that no one cracks. The Bible. Yes. No one's looking at the Bible. A book that might have some information. This is like the

So that's why this episode we're giving away a Bible to everybody. Look under your seats.

Under your seat you will FIND A BIBLE. HOW DID THIS GET PRAYED? Black it out. That's the end OF THE SHOW. GOOD NIGHT, MINNEAPOLIS.

I was reading the book of Job. And can you believe this passage? All right. It says right here, he who walks. Now, get this. He who walks through a valley. Now, where are these valleys? That would be our whole show.

Your name, your question. I'm Bess and I just wanted to address THE PHYSICAL COMEDY. OH, WE'RE TALKING ECCLESIASTICS TONIGHT. We're This is crazy. Sorry. Go ahead. Please go ahead.

Yeah. Well, I mean like the dog the dog attack like everything was just so over the top.

The dog attack was from the POV of the dog, right? Going into the man's ass and yet I forgot about that. So when he said into the man's ass,

seems like he went pretty deep into it. I feel like he got side cheek and back cheek. Yeah. No, I loved I loved the dad that after he's been bit on the butt, which is like midway through the movie on the he on the knee. After he's bit on the Heiney, for the rest of the movie, he does a lot of sitting down and then jumping up and being oh my He know that I was attacked. I really laughed when the dad is in the boardroom and he's trying to describe who the new face of the ethereal beauty line is.

The hardest laugh in the movie. I I genuinely laugh so hard. HE GOES, "I GOT IT. IT'S MY DAUGHTER'S FIANCE'S GIRLFRIEND.

MISTRESS. MISTRESS. MISTRESS. It's even better." And everybody's like, "Uh-huh."

And it's like, it's like the casting notice for everybody in there is weasels. It's a boardroom full of weasels who were like,

but also they were alluding to something going horribly wrong in that makeup. Again, I think it was Phoebe Phoebe's face.

The guy comes to their house in the middle of the night with the marketing research reports, not sales, like we just did the testing. It's bad.

And gleefully gleefully tells him it's bad. I had to come over and tell you it's bad.

Your instincts are [ __ ] Your daughter's the worst. I wrote down the press is witnessing an abduction. Go ahead. Your name, your question.

Hi, I am Dena. Um, hi Dena. Hi. Um, has anyone figured out what the date was? What date?

What do you mean? Question. Oh. Oh, I see. The titular date. Um, yeah, there doesn't appear to be

I think it's like a date like his date with Destiny. That's not like a It's not like a we go to Benigans. It's like it's just a general my dad.

They go they go to Wendy's. It's interesting though, by the way, what an indictment on Wendy's.

I know. I didn't even think about that. It is interesting though because I I h I do have a vague memory of the dad in the engagement party scene talking to Tad's mom who we haven't even touched on her.

Holy. We haven't even said a word about her yet. I have We need to spend roughly the next two hours talking about her, Tad's dad, and also where's Phoebe's mom.

Uncle, unknown. But I do remember a reference to Tad working for her dad and that being the path and that it seemed like that's where we were going. But I don't know cuz once once Phoebe's on screen, she doesn't seem to care.

I had an issue with it was confusing to me that when he shows up at her house, she throws stuff out the window. They weren't living together,

so she's just throwing her own [ __ ] out the window. Well, some of it is like cards and stuff that he's probably given her or whatever. But like, yeah, it I agree.

It doesn't seem like that's a family that allows her boyfriend to sleep over. But then again, that I agree, but that suggests that she lives with her parents. Ergo is young. And so then I'm like, how old are these characters supposed to be?

Now, hours away from the movie, it's kind of starting to make a bit more sense. I think I think we're supposed to believe that Tad's from the wrong side of the tracks and that this marriage is going to be meaningful to his family and to his mom because they are going to profit off of it in some way. Okay?

Because he drives like a piece of [ __ ] car. She drives a Corvette. She drives a Corvette, lives in a mansion and her dad is like business business capitalism capitalism.

Keeping up with the Joneses. Okay. Your name, your question. You have a screen grab.

Yeah, I'm Will. Uh, less of a question, more of a reading of Roger Eert's review of this movie.

Okay, this is great. I actually Well, can you play re We've never done this before. I was going to save this to the end, but I think it's worthy of it now. Can you play uh review?

The most impressive thing about this whole movie is the way that Emanuel Bayart is actually able to play a convincing angel. At least I was convinced. And if it's not an angel, then at least it's certainly a beautiful blonde with wings. On some kind of a basic level, I liked her performance. In fact, I think you can even guess what that basic level probably was.

Sexual. And I liked a lot of the details of her relationship with Michael Knight. You're being so kind. I think this movie is garbage. I did not think she was convincing. I didn't think it was magical. I didn't think the characters surrounding her were interesting. All she does is chirp.

She is a beautiful woman, G. Not There are lots of beautiful women in the world.

There are not that many. Yeah, there are not that many. There are not there are few movies that are as bad as this one.

Isn't there some kind of a basic human level upon which you can respond to beauty of this nature without having to just always be a critic all the time and see how dumb the movie is? Isn't there something pretty to look at there?

Yes. And then the then the movie starts rolling. Take a still picture of her. Don't look at the film.

I love nothing. I grew up every week watching at the movies on PBS every I nothing is better than the animosity that Jean Ciscoll and Roger Eert have for each other. It is so powerful how much they dislike each other and how much they are just constantly going after each other.

I mean and that is brilliant. Like he's like you know I like her sexual sexual so upsetting. Can we bring in our second opinion people right now? If I Here's the thing. While you guys are lining up, if I'm Tad, have some [ __ ] balls and go and have a conversation with Phoebe Kates and be like, "It's over." They cut all of that stuff out because the bachelor party. He goes like,

"I know you called after you woke up and tried to explain the situation." Like, why didn't we get the scene?

He says, "I'll be there in a half an hour." Doesn't do that. Clearly doesn't even have any intention. Starts cleaning up. is a [ __ ] piece of [ __ ] and I hate him for what he did to our girl. Yeah, Tad might be a piece of [ __ ] but you know what? There are people out there that think a little bit differently because now it is time for a second opinion.

What's with this angel in my pool? Where did she come from? What will my fianc think when she sees her in my bedoo and going to Amazon to leave a review going to BE FIVE you look just like an angel oh and I'm recently engaged I don't know what this movie is about. Anyway, I DON'T CARE ABOUT THAT.

I give it five stars. Yes. Amazing job. Great job. Every single one of the 32 people who sang songs tonight were perfect.

Thank you so much. Those are amazing songs. And now we're going to read some amazing reviews on Amazon. There are 1,43 reviews of date with an angel average rating 4.7 out of five stars.

4.7 Wow. out of five stars. 82% are five star reviews. Only 2% are one-star reviews. Mel Leonard writes, "This is in 2018. Title: A movie that has remained as one of my favorites for decades. When I was a movie theater manager back in the 80s, I had the pleasure of screening this movie, and I thought it was wonderful. Girls came out of the theater crying on their boyfriend's shoulders, and everyone had smiles on their faces." However, the critics panned it terribly. And not many came to see this great show, which I thought was a real crime.

Because of these charlatan judges, this movie failed at the box office. I have never forgiven those who were responsible for this. I just want to say I still think this is a great movie and I highly recommend it to anyone. Dated, pardon the pun though it may be. It is both funny, heartwarming, and sometimes sad, but with the proverbial happy ending. You will do yourself a favor if you take the time to watch it. Five stars. Thank you, Mel Leonard. Now, Mel has a little bit of an edge, and so does Share. Not Share with a C, but Share with an S. and share with an S wrote this in 2011 and uh the title is DVD date with an angel.

This DVD was difficult to locate and the cost in Canada was double from Amazon. I got my DVD and I enjoyed it very much and I was delighted to add it to my collection. I wish Amazon would arrange to deliver to Canada as having to drive to the US to pick up a parcel at a designated place is a bit much. Thank you again, Amazon, and I hope you will consider finding the same products in Canada or the US or rather than selling it or going overseas. Keep it at home, keep it Americans, and keep Canadians working. Five stars.

What the [ __ ] is that review about? This person is pissed off. Starts about this movie and ends with keep Canadians working.

Capitalism. Wow. C. Yeah, capitalism indeed. Um, and that was that review was written by Justin Trudeau.

And you know what? A lot of his legislation gets first started at the review level and then it moves up.

That's the way you have to do it in Canada. Apparently, we've got some great reviews on becomes hoping to get them into

We're having fun. R our CS writes this the title. Great movie. My wife and I love this movie. We feel

divorced. We feel that the FX for the wings were done extremely well, much better and more realistic than what I think could be done with CG. We just love the detail put into this movie and we're happy to add it to our DVD collection. Five stars. Great movie.

I can I say one thing about that? I agree. I think because the wings were not too white. I guess they just seemed like they had been

I don't know used for some time. Wow. That's why she's behaving badly. She's behaving badly now. She's behaving better.

Felt like those were used wings. Used wings in a good way. I agree. And I thought they I actually thought they looked good as well. And I thought they did a good job of not giving us too much access to them so as to let them be

let them breathe. Let them look. I did take issue with the scene where he was trying to disguise her. I can understand putting a coat on the wings, but why does she need to be in a hat and sunglasses?

I'm so sorry. Also, why does she need high heels? Get angel sneakers. Please get her angel sneakers or flip flops. Give her anything. There's a decidedly angry attitude to a lot.

You want to put an angel in She doesn't belong in flipflops, Mom. You want to put an ang that

she's she's an angel. That's my favorite John Prime song. Angel in flipflops. Angel in flipflops walking through my life.

Isn't that that I don't know if you're with me tonight, Minneapolis. Oh god. Come tomorrow night. We'll see what's up.

In the in the toughest times, I was carrying you, but I tripped on my flipflops. Right. That's the footprints. Um, Ed from Denver writes this. Uh, the title is, "What is there to say about a movie I ordered?" dot dot dot. What is there to say about a movie I ordered? Because I already knew about it before I ordered it. Five stars. I think he thought he needed to re like I think he's confused about what reviews are.

Um I will I will read you think he ordered it and then got the email and it was like leave a review here and he was just like well it hasn't arrived yet but

I mean I already order Yeah, I ordered it. It came a review. I gave you a review of the ordering process. This is um a review written by I am blessed.

Okay. The title is for angel lovers and others to me. A collector of angel lore, Emanuel Barrett is the personification of angels. My guardian angel agrees.

What? And I think you will agree. Five stars. That's chilling. I just picture that person watching the movie and then looking at an empty chair and being like, I know. Me too. So, those are some fivestar reviews. We got a bunch there. A bunch of great ones. I guess the question is, uh, would you recommend this smoothie? Yes. Yes. Forever and always. Yes. If only to see what a piece of [ __ ] Tad is

for choosing this angel who is not going to be with him forever. She's just clearly glomming on to him for her music career. Um for him to pass up Phoebe Kates. Again, this is a movie about Phoebe Kates. I won't hear anything else. And it's fantastic. Everybody should watch it. Yeah, this is truly like this was a find. This was a wonderful find and I did genuinely enjoy I did enjoy it. I think I think I really enjoy

I don't know which end is up anymore. I think I really enjoyed it. That this movie was released in the theater and made like this is a real movie. We're going to see it like there were no questions asked. This feels to me like whatever you want to do make it.

And they're paying for music. The Cars, Steve Winwood. There are needle drops of hit songs. Steve Winwood's The Finer Things is in this song. Don't worry, I had that tape, guys.

Me, too. At this point, I was 15 years old. I had this tape. I listened to this song and I was lonely.

The movie bankrupted the studio that released it. They thought it was going to help reinvigorate it, but this year was bad for them. And it was a $8 million movie that made $2 million, but it was nominated for best fantasy film at the 1988 Saturn Awards and lost to The Princess Bride. This is a this I feel like now this movie would be a faith-based movie.

You know what I mean? Like or it would skew in that direction and would be appropriately not as sexual. Not Yeah. Go ahead.

Here's what I would say. This is Blind Date, the Bruce Willis movie. I think you put Bruce Willis in this movie. I think you put Kim Basinger in this movie. It's a big hit. A big hit. It's big.

We're talking about Splash. I think Splash is so much is so similar but Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah, it is electric. You know, it is not an electric connection between any of the people here and Phoebe Kates is pouring incredible work into like a bottomless pit of nonsense.

I will say this, I think we figured out our shirt, which is the shirt they made in the actual movie. I think that's the one.

It's pretty I don't quite remember, but I think that's pretty good. I think we can just cheat it and just

I remember feeling like when I saw it there was like angel wings on the back. Can we do that Paul? Please.

Paul, can we please have two sides, please? Paul, we are going to do two sides.

Every now and then I like to keep the cost down, but you know what? You guys need a two-sided shirt. Minneapolis, thank you everybody for coming out here tonight. NOW, BILLY JOEL, GOOD NIGHT EVERYBODY.

EAT [ __ ] MINNEAPOLIS. EVERYONE, that is a wrap on Date with an Angel. Thanks again to the entire staff at the Pantageous Theater and our fantastic Minneapolis audience. We love you, Minnie. Uh, our t-shirt design for this episode says Angel just in quotes on the front with an image of huge angel wings on the back. To get this shirt and more, just click on the merch link at hdtg.com. As always, if you have a correction or omission from this episode, leave me a voicemail at 619 p a l or write a comment on our Discord at discord.gg/hdtgm and I will respond to your messages next week on Last Looks. Dinosaur Improv will be back at Largo in Los Angeles on February 28th with Edie Patterson and Nicole Byer. So many great people.

Danielle Schneider will be there as well as Rob Hub, myself. You can watch the dark web every single week for free on YouTube. And remember, if you listen to this podcast on Apple or Spotify, make sure you are subscribed to our feed and have automatic downloads turned on in the show settings. It helps us and we appreciate it a lot. And lastly, I give a huge thanks to our behind-the-scenes team. I'm talking about our producer Scott Sonni, Molly Reynolds, our engineer Casey Holford, our social media manager Zoe Applebomb, and our intern Quinn Jennings. We will forever be thankful to the one and only Averil Hie.

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Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "Date with an Angel LIVE!"?

Paul Scheer (Host), Jason Mantzoukas (Host), June Diane Raphael (Host).

What is "Date with an Angel LIVE!" about?

"Date with an Angel" is a romantic comedy centered around a man with a brain tumor who unexpectedly falls in love with an angel sporting a broken wing. Set against the backdrop of 1987, the film has drawn comparisons to "Splash," and is discussed with a blend of humor and nostalgia, highlighting its cultural significance and impact.

What is mentioned in this How Did This Get Made? episode?

9 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Date with an Angel, June Diane Raphael, Jason Manukus, Phoebe Cates, Emanuel Beart, Minnesota. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "Date with an Angel LIVE!"?

The episode runs 1 h 26 min; the transcript is about 14,217 words in 338 timestamped sections.

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