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The Cracked Podcast

11 Major Recent Movies (With Secretly Bizarre Productions)

The Cracked Podcast

Literally Media

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Alex Schmidt is joined by comedy writers Gonzalo Cordova and Alan Denton. They’ll explore the biggest recent movies, and the extraordinarily strange work that went into making them. Find out which Oscar movie got patched like a video game, several days after it was in theaters. Discover which animal overran the set of your favorite action movie franchise. And keep listening for the set of international financial crimes that built Hollywood’s hottest production company.


Footnotes: https://www.cracked.com/podcast/11-major-recent-movies-with-secretly-bizarre-productions

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:05.5

They want to support you. It's

0:07.9

2020 a futuristic sounding year and if we're in the future everyone should have a website because that was already a thing to do in the

0:15.4

Present day, you know back when it was 2019 a normal sounding year now it's 2020 we all have flying cars

0:21.6

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0:25.2

Showcase your work sell products of any kind and just be you on the internet head to squarespace.com slash Cracked for a free trial

0:33.4

And when you're ready to launch use the offer code Cracked to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain

0:40.0

Hey

0:50.3

Hey there folks welcome to another episode of the Cracked podcast the podcast all about why being alive is more

0:56.0

Interesting than people think it is my name is Alex Schmidt. I'm the head of podcasting here at Cracked

1:00.1

I'm also known as Shmitty the clam. I'm also known as Shmitty the champ and I am also also

1:05.2

Going to tell you about my Tom cruziest moment. That's right Tom Cruise the the famous actor and producer and a religious leader and stuff

1:13.8

I don't know if you've seen it

1:15.0

But I used to make a YouTube show called hilarious helmet history and we would dig into myths and misconceptions about huge historical things

1:22.4

While I wore a fun helmet one time we did an episode about the samurai of Japan and in other episodes of the show

1:30.0

I'd have you know a pretty Halloweeny plasticky kind of Viking helmet or which is had or something

1:34.7

But this one I was wearing a very substantial samurai helmet like I could feel the heft of it and the weight of it and like my neck felt very

1:44.1

Load bearing

1:45.4

Throughout the shoot which was fine. I'm doing okay and after we shot the episode

1:49.2

I you know I went back to the producer and the crew and I said hey, here's the helmet

1:53.0

Thanks for everything that was great and they said no problem by the way

1:56.6

You might be glad to know that samurai helmet was used on the 2003 Tom Cruise movie the last samurai and I I asked them

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