Be Kind Rewind
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Oct 27, 2026
ChaseHOST
And, you know, so we were still doing in-person.
ChaseHOST
And so, you know, episode six, Be Kind, Rewind.
ChaseHOST
Now, when you think all things nostalgia, now we've touched some game stuff.
ChaseHOST
We've talked Saturday morning cartoons.
ChaseHOST
And then Be Kind, Rewind was a blockbuster throwback.
ChaseHOST
Like, that was the whole discussion.
ChaseHOST
So,
StephHOST
Yes.
StephHOST
Now, did you ever watch the movie Be Kind Rewind? With
JoelHOST
Jack Black and Mos Def?
StephHOST
Yes, I think so.
StephHOST
This is kind of
JoelHOST
that vibe.
StephHOST
And so if you kind of are liking the vibe of these film posters, go and watch Be Kind Rewind.
StephHOST
Yes.
Robert CannonHOST
Made by Michel Gondry, the filmmaker who does a lot of trippy music videos.
Robert CannonHOST
Be Kind Rewind.
Robert CannonHOST
I've heard of it.
Robert CannonHOST
Do you know what it's about? Videotape? Yes.
Robert CannonHOST
No.
Ira HefflerHOST
Excuse me, School of Rock?
Robert CannonHOST
I do like School of Rock and I do like Be Kind Rewind.
Ira HefflerHOST
Well, then there you go.
Jonathan DauermannNARRATOR
Next, the last remaining video rental store.
Jonathan DauermannNARRATOR
Rows of DVDs, Be Kind Rewind signs, sticky floors, and a bored teenager behind the counter who can't figure out what that itch is.
Jonathan DauermannNARRATOR
Now, creative co-working space.
Jonathan DauermannNARRATOR
Exposed brick, communal tables, monthly memberships, phone booths for Zoom calls and kombucha on tap.
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[rock music]
Dan FisherHOST
Let's talk about Be Kind Rewind, which was Michel Gondry's follow-up to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and we filmed it in, uh, Passaic, New Jersey.
Jeff ButcherGUEST
I think the best thing about that movie is the premise that, that Jack Black, in trying to sabotage the power plant that he thinks is making him paranoid, he becomes magnetized.
Jeff ButcherGUEST
And so when he goes into his friend's video store, his presence erases all the videotapes.
Dan FisherHOST
I do, too.
Dan FisherHOST
I went on somebody else's podcast recently.
Dan FisherHOST
It was a podcast about underrated movies or movies we felt deserved more love than they had received, and I talked about Be Kind Rewind.
Dan FisherHOST
And I remember critics kinda tearing into it a bit saying, "Oh, it's so whimsical," you know? That's a flaw in it, the whimsy.
CamHOST
Yeah.
CamHOST
Have you ever seen, uh, Be Kind Rewind?
CobyHOST
Yeah.
CamHOST
With Jack Black, when he's like, "I wanna be cast as Fats in-
Mallory SmartGUEST
What was the second story that led to it? Um, I think She Wants Her MTV would be next, and the Dave character just got, like, lodged into my brain.
Mallory SmartGUEST
By the time I hit, uh, Be Kind Rewind and everything, like, Dave was just stuck in there.
Brad KellyHOST
Mm-hmm.
Mallory SmartGUEST
So still I wasn't totally positive that I was really writing a short story collection until people on Facebook of all places, 'cause I don't even really go on Facebook that much.
TomHOST
Can you remember Be Qui- Kind Rewind?
DanGUEST
Be Kind Rewind? No, but it sounds woke as fuck, mate.
DanGUEST
I'm not interested.
DanGUEST
What is that nonsense?
TomHOST
Be Kind Rewind is a Jack Black film-
DanGUEST
Okay, yeah
TomHOST
... where, where they work in an old VHS shop or something, but somehow they lose all the tapes.
CJHOST
Absolutely.
CJHOST
Be Kind Rewind.
JasonHOST
Uh, Be Kind Rewind.
CJHOST
Yeah.
JasonHOST
There, there's a movie with him and Bruce Willis where Bruce Willis is a cop that's hunting him a- across New York City-
WrightPANELIST
Oh, uh, yeah.
WrightPANELIST
B- uh, Be Kind Rewind is a-
Chris CoxHOST
Yeah
WrightPANELIST
... is a perfect example of that.
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