508 - That Was Then: Sideways

As they say, don’t drink and podcast, but here Paul and Arlo are talking about 2004’s Sideways for another round of That Was Then. Alexander Payne’s acclaimed dramedy follows alcoholic wine connoisseur Miles as he takes his bonehead best buddy Jack on a road trip through Santa Barbara the week before Jack’s due to get hitched. It is the Fox Searchlight movie, and the boys discuss what that means, how the performances bring forth certain emotional notes in the script’s body, and why somebody could come away from a first viewing not understanding 20 years’ worth of hype. Plus, Arlo goes into uncomfortable detail about his middle school career.

NEXT: enough old movies, let’s talk old(-ish) comics! This month’s Four-Color Flashback sees Eric Sipple joining Paul and Arlo for Si Spurrier and Dylan Burnett’s Weavers.

BREAKDOWN

00:00:45  -  Intro / Guest

00:29:46  -  Main Topic

01:35:36  -  Outro / Next

MUSIC

• “Scenes from an Italian Restaurant” by Billy Joel, The Stranger (1977)

• “A Case of You” by Joni Mitchell, Blue (1971)

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