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Hello, dear listeners, and welcome back to another episode of what went wrong, your favorite podcast, Full Stop, that just so happens to be about movies,

and how it's nearly impossible to make them, let alone a good one, let alone one that goes to 11.

That's right. I am Chris Winterbauer, joined today by my intrepid co-host, one of the loudest podcasters,

Lizzie Bassett. Lizzie, how are you doing this fine morning?

I'm doing great. I could not be happier to talk about England's loudest band. We are, of course, talking about the 1984 classic This Is Spinal Tap. And we are doing this in honor of a long-awaited

sequel that is finally arriving in theaters,

I believe, on September 12th, and that is Spinal Tap 2. The End continues. But today, Chris,

we're going to talk about the very beginning of Spinal Tap, which is actually a pretty fun story.

So had you, I'm sure you had seen Spinal Tap before, but what was your

feeling upon watching it and then upon rewatching it for the podcast? I had seen Spinal Tap.

I went on a Christopher Guest spin in high school, more best in show, a mighty wind, you know,

that stuff, but then Spinal Tap, this is Spinal Tap as a precursor to

those was a part of it. Did not appreciate the subtlety of the humor in This is Swinal Tap.

That was a common problem. So funny. It did, it never winks and it just always plays the bit straight.

I have forgotten how funny Michael McKean is. He and Christopher

guests together are so good. They are obviously musical, and that just goes so far in selling

this movie. But so many great cameos, Billy Crystal, as the Mime Caterer, Fran Drescher,

working for the record company. Bruno Kirby, I love showing up as the limo driver who, when he gets spurned, is like, this, this is a fad. He's great. Ed Begley Jr.? No, where's Ed Begley Jr.? He's the first drummer, they show in the 1960s. The first Stumpy, the Stumpy Peeps.

That's what he was.

And then Stumpy Joe, who died on someone else's vomit. But they can't fingerprint for that. Yeah, it can't dust for vomit, yes. It's very good. The songs are great. It feel, this is the musical, this is the music movie I wanted when we watched Bohemian Rhapsody. Yes. You know, like, give me one tour. Give me one period of time. And I love the conceit of just the shows are getting smaller and smaller as than going on throughout this movie. Yeah, this is the band's most intense point of turmoil, Chris. This is, this is tap at its lowest point. It is. And, you know, like, even how just things, you know, the Sabrina Carpenter album debacle,

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