5 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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John Candy: I Like Me is a new documentary directed by Colin Hanks and produced by Ryan Reynolds that celebrates the life and legacy of comedy legend John Candy. Using never-before-seen footage, home movies, and intimate interviews, it paints a portrait of a man who was as kind and vulnerable as he was funny. The film dives into Candy’s struggles with body image, anxiety, and fame, revealing the humanity behind his humor. It’s a heartfelt, emotional tribute to a beloved actor who made the world laugh while quietly carrying his own burdens.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Buzz in the Tower, a podcast dedicated to the movies of the 1980s and the 1990s and occasionally a film that comes out in 2025. |
| 0:12.8 | I'm Mo Shapiro, and joining me is the apple of my eye. |
| 0:17.7 | It's not true. |
| 0:19.6 | The milk in my... No, what is it? The apple of no what is it the apple my eye the cream of my coffee |
| 0:23.5 | my coffee yeah the uh the milk in my utter the four the four in my loco max Sanders welcome to the |
| 0:30.8 | show max were you part of the four loco blackout fits I had one incident with four loco |
| 0:35.3 | I was at my house. |
| 0:38.2 | We just finished, and remember in Ferdale? We did that renovation, the old house. Just finished everything. With Hapler? No, it wasn't with Hapler. But yes, he helped. Put all this beautiful stuff together in my house. Destroyed it one day later. To my Sean and Guy, Sean and Gie, we're over, we're all hanging out. And then an old buddy of ours who you've met. |
| 0:56.3 | Dragon. |
| 0:56.9 | Catchkey. |
| 0:57.6 | Oh. |
| 0:58.2 | Me. Sean and Guy Sean and Guy Rover we're all hanging out and then an old buddy of ours who you've met Dragon Catchkey Oh Remember he's the guy He works at Shake Shack Remember we used to record The old studio And I would tell you we could eat Free because Catchkey would hook us up Okay He's also a fan of the show He's been a spotlight beforeatchke showed up at the house with a crate filled with nudie magazines and four loco. |
| 1:14.6 | Nudy magazines. |
| 1:15.3 | I don't know why. |
| 1:16.9 | And Sean drank a lot of the four logos. |
| 1:20.5 | And in a moment of rage, he slapped the wall in our new bathroom and left like a broken print in the drywall. So you're framed it. That was my experience with ForLoco. This is your first time to the podcast. We're buzzing the tower. And you can listen to us on all podcast players, anything from Apple to Spotify, you name it. Overcast apparently is really cool. We have Overcast. No, no. My friend uses it to listen to us. Yeah. And if you listen at two speed, you know how it sounds kind of, if you listen to us on two speed, like if you're on Spotify or Apple right now and you do it, we sound like album in the chipmunks, it speeds you up. Overcast makes it sound normal, even though it's sped up. It just speeds it up. Isn't that cool? That is interesting. And also, like, if there's blocks, it like skips it. It like edits it for you. There you go. Pretty cool. Overcast. We should talk to them about paying us for that beautiful plug we just gave. Social media at Buzz in the Tower. You can find us on all social media platforms just by checking out our handle at Buzz in the Tower. We've got a website. We get a t-shirt bought on it every once a while. I kind of dig it. |
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| 2:21.4 | You can. checking out our handle at Buzz in the Tower. We've got a website. We get a t-shirt bought on it every once in a while. |
| 2:18.7 | I kind of dig it. |
| 2:19.8 | It's buzzin-the-tower.com. You can support the show at patreon.com slash buzz in the tower. You can watch the show at YouTube.com at Buzz in the Tower. And of course, how could I forget? I didn't forget. Our wonderful sponsors, 80s.com, the best and brightest in vintage |
| 2:35.7 | t-shirts from the fantastic 80s and 90s. If you had a John Candy t-shirt, what would you want? |
| 2:41.8 | I would want to finish my intro. Today we're talking about John Candy. I like me, the 2025 |
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