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Hi, I'm Dana Stevens, Slate's movie critic, and this is a Slate Spoiler Special podcast on Casa de My Padre, the new Will Ferrell comedy entirely in Spanish.

Here with me in the Slate Studios is Brian Curtis.

Hey, Brian.

Buenos diea.

I'm delighted to be here.

I'm very, very happy to have you back.

You're actually, I believe you were my very first spoiler special companion when we first started this podcast like three or four years ago. It's a kind of

reunion. Yeah. It's got a spoiler reunion. It is really, really awesome to be doing another one

with you because we've done so many, but I don't think we've done one in, I don't know, a year.

It was like the animated Beowulf was the last one we did or something like that. We did that one together. So great. Oh, my gosh. So we didn't see this movie together. I know that you liked it. I believe a little better than me, but I'm very curious. First, let's quickly summarize what happens in the movie and then let's get to riffing on it. So, so Casadimipadre is set on a ranch in Mexico. Right. In an unspecified time that seems to be maybe like the 70s based on the style of cars. Right. It could be any time from the 70s to present though, right? Like if we, I mean, it seemed to evoke like they, it wasn't, it wasn't sort of like an old fashioned. It was old fashion, right, but it wasn't terribly old fashioned. So it's, let's say it's a place out of time. Yeah, it's sort of dated as it needs to be dated, right? Whatever joke era needs to be ransacked, the movie goes to that era. And somewhere near the border, I think,

is important, right? Because we do see some interactions with like a Border Patrol, an American Border

Patrol agent, right? So somewhere south of the border, as they used to say. And since the drug

trade is involved, etc. So Will Farrell plays Armando Alvarez. That's his last name, right? I should know this because he's constantly saying his name, I'm Armando Alvarez. That's right. And he is the black sheep and the sort of

dumb older brother in this rancher's family. His younger brother is played by Diego Luna, the Mexican

actor, who everyone will recognize from I too mama, too. That's right. And he's the more with

it brother, as their father is always insisting. He's the smart one.

He's the successful one.

And unbeknownst to his dense older brother, he is actually successful in the drug trade.

This is obvious to us from the moment we first see him, right?

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