81. Bill Murray, BIC Lighters, Cake Sprinkles

Phil & Jake rank iconic comic actor Bill Murray, BIC lighters, and cake sprinkles on the List of Every Damn Thing.

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SHOW NOTES:

• Phil talks about how he uses antiquated stoner terminology to describe the workings of asthma inhalers. It's not that he's committed to the stoner lifestyle but that they have the best terms for describing things like that. "This albuterol is cashed." "You can have green hit on this Xopenex."
• Chevy Chase and Goldie Hawn starred in Foul Play which is pretty good and is set in San Francisco. When Phil lived in NYC he was homesick and made it a point to watch movies set in SF. Jake surmises the name of the movie is Lucky Chances Casino, which is the name of a Bay Area casino.
• We talk about a lot of Bill Murray movies, including Caddyshack, Meatballs, Stripes, Ghostbusters, The Razor’s Edge, Little Shop of Horrors, Ghostbusters 2, Groundhog Day, Quick Change, Mad Dog and Glory, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, Lost in Translation and Where the Buffalo Roam (which is the one we couldn’t remember the name of, where he plays Hunter S. Thompson).
• We also discuss Scrooged, which screenwriter Michael O'Donoghue considered his greatest work. It was directed by Richard Donner (Lethal Weapon, Superman, the Twilight Zone episode where William Shatner sees a gremlin on the side of the plane) who had much broader sensibilities. "We wrote a fucking masterpiece. We wrote It Happened One Night. We wrote a story that could make you laugh and cry. You would have wanted to share it with your grandchildren every fucking Christmas for the next hundred years. The finished film was a piece of unadulterated, unmitigated shit."
• Bill Murray voiced the titular role in the Garfield movie (and the sequel Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties). He agreed to do it because he saw it was written by Joel Cohen and thought it was Joel Coen (who made– with his brother– Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, the Big Lebowski, Hudsucker Proxy and Fargo). 
• The documentary that Jake watched about Murray’s real-life antics is called The Bill Murray Stories: Life Lessons Learned from a Mythical Man. 
• Bill Paxton rules as Chet in Weird Science.
• Bruce Springsteen wrote “Hungry Heart” for the Ramones and “Because the Night” was written for Patti Smith.

ALSO DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:
48 Hrs. * Saturday Night Live * Dan Aykroyd * Jim Carrey * Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania * “Macho Man” Randy Savage * minor league baseball * Shaquille O’Neal * Klaus Nomi * “Weird Al” Yankovic * triangle pizza * pie * Zippos * nail clippers * anti-diarrhea medicine * firefighters * cake * glitter * scatting * Oreos * feeding cats like babies

Below are the Top Ten and Bottom Top items on List of Every Damn Thing as of this episode (for the complete up-to-date list, go here).

TOP TEN:

1. Dolly Parton - person
2. interspecies animal friends - idea
3. sex - idea
4. bicycles - tool
5. coffee - beverage
6. Clement Street in San Francisco - location
7. Prince - person
8. It’s-It - food
9. Doctor Doom - fictional character
10. Cher - person

BOTTOM TEN:

245. Jon Voight - person
246. Hank Williams, Jr - person
247. British Royal Family - institution
248. Steven Seagal - person
249. McRib - food
250. death - idea
251. war - idea
252. cigarettes - drug
253. QAnon - idea
254. transphobia - idea

Theme song by Jade Puget. Graphic design by Jason Mann. This episode was produced & edited by Jake MacLachlan, with audio help from Luke Janela. Show notes by Jake MacLachlan & Phil Green.

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