And it's just a movie that I've been thinking about a lot lately because it turned 20 a week or two ago,

which made me feel very old indeed. But I think there's some stuff in this movie that is maybe

relevant to the Mike Linus podcast, to the Mike Linus audience. And that movie is Tom Green's

creed decor, Freddie Got Fingered which which i watched again this afternoon my appetite

wedded by all of the celebrations you know the ticker tape parades yeah people defying lockdowns

and mask bans to flood the streets in celebration of 20 years of freddie got fingered

like this movie has a sort of free-flowing, not particularly focused disrespect

towards the institution of a Hollywood movie and the institution of a Hollywood studio comedy.

And I think one reason why the movie's reputation has

risen in the last 20 years, why it has so many fans now when a lot of comedies from that era,

including, for example, Crocodile Dundee and Los Angeles, which made more money than it,

barely, is the fact that, like, the last 20 years have been very hard. I think there's more

openness to the idea of something that is just kind of like a datist provocation than when it

came out. Like, the idea of something just kind of thumbing its nose at the form of a Hollywood

studio coming. You're saying, like, I mean, this film came out in April of 2001.

You're saying it's like, we needed 9-11 and the financial crisis and Donald Trump

to find this funny.

Yes, I am sort of saying that.

Or like, huge numbers of people needed that.

Huge numbers of people had to, like, give up hope and lose faith in their institutions

to think that the goal of like tearing down a Hollywood studio comedy just for its own sake

and like not rebuilding anything in its place either. Right. This is a purely destructive enterprise.

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