533: Confiscate the Trumpeter's Mute

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2020

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Our Old Movie Club takes on two Billy Wilder comedies from 1939 and 1959, to see if they still hold up 81 and 61 years later. Erika Ensign’s selection is “Midnight,” starring Claudette Colbert and Don Ameche, and Philip Michaels counters with “Some Like It Hot,” starring Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, and Marilyn Monroe. Both films are about people pretending to be something they aren’t. And then the fun begins… hopefully!...

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0:00.0	The incomparable number 533, September 2020.
0:10.0	Welcome back everybody to The Incomparable.
0:12.4	I'm your host, Jason Snell, and in this episode, we're doing another episode of
0:16.0	Old Movie Club.
0:20.2	Old movies on the agenda.
0:22.1	And this time, it is two movies involving Billy Wilder, 1939's Midnight, which I believe
0:31.0	Erica Ensign, who is here, recommended we do in episode 400 of the incomparable. Is that right, Erica? That sounds about right.
0:41.9	I do remember it was one of those episodes where you said, give me ideas for the future. And I'm
0:47.5	going to call that a draft. And this was one of my ideas. Yeah. So wait, you only wait 100 plus
0:52.5	episodes to do her recommendations, but you wait like
0:55.0	400 for mine. The pile is shrinking, Steve. I'm just, I'm, I'm moving through those ideas
1:00.8	a faster clip now. Yeah, indeed. Okay. Now that we're pairing it with, some like it hot from
1:07.5	1959, that pairing suggested by the guy who usually suggest the movies on old movie club.
1:13.8	Philip Michaels.
1:14.9	Hey, Phil.
1:15.6	Hello.
1:16.4	Hi.
1:17.1	How are you?
1:18.7	Great.
1:19.9	Great.
1:20.2	Let me explain who.
1:21.3	I'm not eating pizza.
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