He is in one of my favorite movies of all time,
This is Spinal Tap
and in his 41 year career,
you've seen Michael McKean everywhere.
He's in classics, of course, like Lavern & Shirley.
We're lookin' for an apartment we can share.
And a new fave, Better Call Saul.
Are you telling me that a man
just happens to fall like that.
No, he orchestrated it! Jimmy!
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Please welcome Michael McKean.
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We are not blushing.
Big fan, I'm a big fan.
Nice to see you, thank you.
Oh my God. (screams)
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This is so nice.
This is the most exciting thing.
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So excited!
We are, we hope we're not frightening you,
but we are both such mad fans.
I should be frightened, right?
(audience laughs) Oh, okay.
Be afraid.
So we have watched Spinal Tap, I don't know,
way more than 11 times, maybe a 111 times.
Well, I'm in a band, so I saw it when it first came out
and it both made me laugh, made me cry,
and scared the heck out of me.
Yeah, yeah, good, good.
That's just what it's supposed to do.
But it didn't scare you away.
It wasn't supposed to do that.
No, it didn't scare me away.
No, it was our very cynical take on
what that life might have been like.
The nicest moment I had.
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We are Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton, two noted guitarists.
We've heard of them. Yes, I'll say.
They were playing at, it was,
BB King's 75th birthday party at the Apollo
and they got lost under the stage.
So it was really like that scene.
Yes, exactly and they're looking
for how to get on the stage So these were based off
Oh wow. And they turned
to each other and went, we're in that movie.
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That's right guys, we gotcha. Isn't that great?
It's nice, it was nice.
That's epic that your movie
becomes part of a rock and roll story.
Yeah, yeah thank you. It's true, so,
when I was growing up, my dad taught me
to play guitar when I was like six years old.
Was he a professional musician?
No, no, no, he was an amateur musician
but he knew three chords and he would listen to
and make me listen to The Kingston Trio.
Yes, yes.
The Chad Mitchel Trio,
Yes.
Peter, Paul, and Mary.
Yes.
So When, A Mighty Wind came out, I'm like,
this is, I mean you guys really nailed that, too.
Oh, that's nice to hear. You literally doing that
folksy thing. What are your first memories
of music?
Oh man, I think the song I remember the most from
when I was a kid was a Nat King Cole song
and it was from a kids album.
He made an album of kid songs.
I didn't know that even existed.
And it was called Kemo Kimo
and it just, it was my first ear bug.
I mean it really stayed with and I could, I recently
thanks to downloads, I finally found a copy
and after 50 something years, I still knew it.
Wow.
I still knew the song. That's amazing.
Yeah, memory.
No, well yeah, there are certain things
that plant themselves.
Right. If you hear the song,
Don't You Want Me by the Human League.
Oh, yeah. If you hear it early
in the day, it be with you for the rest of the day.
Forever. That doesn't make it
a good song people.
Doesn't make it a good song. It will be with you
until tomorrow.
We probably should get along to
the other topics we need to talk about and fit.
Yeah. I mean honestly,
we could do this for, you get this.
We could do this for a year. It could be
a three hour show everyone!
All right, so our other obsession is Better Call Saul.
Oh my God, obsessed.
Cha!
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In the season finale, the two brothers,
singing the song, singing the Abba.
Crying my eyes out. It's heartbreaking.
I haven't seen it yet so.
Oh, spoiler alert for you, you were there.
I know what happens, I know what happens, yes.
You were there, dude.
It was fun.
It was fun goin' back.
It's a heartbreaking relationship
between these two brothers.
It is, yeah.
I think that all brother sister, brother brother
relationships, sister sister, they're all complicated.
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