Magic Mike XXL

cool nice that's pretty fun you know what complaint i had yeah is that if this guy has been in the slaughterhouse for that long he cut none of these people up for steaks like he was just making chunk for soup yeah they're just eating people soup the whole come on like we have like we could do different cuts we could like make something interesting here you know i can't eat soup every day you're not wrong you're not wrong burgers he doesn't grind any of them it's just fucking little slice for soup

okay Arlie Ermey, who plays the new sheriff, the patriarch of the family, is the reason that Mike and I sort of did the TomTom Club, where he did Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, because he was on a podcast, which I've talked about on here briefly before I was there too, where Matt Gourley interviewed actors you know, but small parts in movies.

And so he talked about Arlie Ermey being like the military advisor for like every movie.

And in the span of like 90 seconds, he talked about working with Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks.

And I was like- I paused the podcast, and I was driving.

I called Mike.

I was just like, what if we did those two? And we all think, okay.

So Arlie Ermey is

When did you drop that shit?

I mean, I started trying to drop it somewhere during the Magic Mike 2 press.

Oh, really? Yeah, I started getting really, I was just frustrated.

I mean, you know, I mean, I guess it's a compliment.

How did Hotshot self-tape? studio come about like what's the timeline of you do the movie you're still in detroit you put the movie in festivals

yeah put it in festivals it got into a couple but what then what i started doing was because that's another thing you can have a a good movie and and mine's fine it didn't set the world on fire but it's cool i'm proud of it you just might not get into festivals because they're like oh we don't want to see your stripper movie and magic mike just came out and it's commercial but i started writing amc theaters this is 2000 12 13. and some of 14, AMC theaters would rent you their theater on any night that wasn't a weekend.

So I forgot how I figured that out.

And I started renting movie theaters in Michigan, and then I would just four wallet myself.

I took a red carpet.

I set it.

Magic Mike two just came out.

That's how much time had passed.

You stick it in your calendar and that's when you notice all the other hen do's you got this year.

Three days in the Lake District, a VIP Magic Mike XXL experience, a week in Budapest, a boat cruise down the Thames, a weekend yoga retreat for a hen do.

You stop and you think, wait, how much of my salary am I spending on other people's hen parties? 2,000 pounds? 5,000 pounds? 10,000 pounds? According to a 2023 survey by Aviva, women spend an average of £652 on a hen do in the UK, and over £1,000 if it's abroad.

And if you're aged 25 to 34, the Money and Pension Service says you could be spending nearly £4,500 a year on other people's weddings, hen and stag do's included.

The maid of honor is at the top, then the bridesmaids, then everyone else.

People drink, they play games, take part in themed activities, and sometimes go abroad.

When we hear the phrase hen do, most of us will picture a group of women in sashes and tiaras with penis balloons queuing up to see Magic Mike XXL live while drinking white wine out of the bottle with plastic penis straws.

But that is a very modern version.

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Which is officially Magic Mike XXL.

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So, uh.

Yeah.

Like, do you know what? I sat here the other night and I watched Magic Mike 1 and Magic Mike 2.

And my brother was like, why are you watching this? And I was like, this is a great movie.

I'm so entertained by watching male dancers, right? And I'm just like, I wouldn't...

Soderbergh did a ...

I think he did a good job with the Magic- Well, he did a good job with Magic Mike 1, and then Magic Mike 2 it was hard to believe that Steven Soderbergh directed it.

But yes, that's right, Rajiv, what about Steven Soderbergh's Hunt for Ben Solo? So s- this isn't the first time recently that Soderbergh has wanted to get back into the blockbuster space.

He made a hard pitch to Disney for The Hunt for Ben Solo with Adam Driver in pocket, script in pocket.

My wife and his girlfriend are having a good time drinking, laughing, and just joking around.

His girlfriend mentions that she would like to see Magic Mike XXL.

I say, 'It's a good idea.

I'll watch the kids so my wife and her can go.' So my wife and her go, and the neighbor and I go back to my house so the kids can play video games together.

IndieWire is n- n- yeah

Magic Mike XXL.

What are we doing here, Dempsey? Magic Mike XXL.

Have you seen it? If you haven't seen it-

Yeah, I've, I've been forced to see these Magic Mike movies

Okay.

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Objectively, Magic Mike XXL is better than Are We Done Yet?.