00:05Do you remember the first time you saw This Is Spinal Tap?
00:08I've never seen it.
00:10I was 19, and it, like, kind of rocked my world.
00:14I know about the spinal procedure.
00:16I've done that many times. I'm a big fan.
00:18A friend of ours had a bootleg.
00:21It immediately became my favorite comedy film of all time,
00:26and still is.
00:27You have to get the two-piece of vertebrae open and extract the fluid.
00:31The entire film is one pop culture reference after another.
00:35Watching that movie is a comedian that you're like,
00:37yeah, this is the type of movie I would want to be in.
00:40I'm in college. We hear about this movie.
00:44We have to see it. It was revelatory.
00:48There's something that's so grounded about Spinal Tap
00:51that you can have something that's ridiculous and funny,
00:54but it's also very real.
00:55Such a fine line between stupid and clever.
00:58The mockumentary became a form that influenced so many movies and TV shows.
01:03There's a whole generation now that's grown up on The Office, Parks and Rec.
01:08All these shows that use the documentary style, deadpan, awkward pauses.
01:16I stole that for The Office.
01:18I loved the fact I was doing what Spinal Tap did.
01:21I just had to make it look like one of those documentaries on the telly.
01:25And it's funny that I stole that from America and then I sold it back to them.
01:29Like it was my idea.
01:31If you can see, the numbers all go to 11.
01:37You can't name a scene that people haven't discussed a million times.
01:42When Derek Smalls gets caught with the cucumber, it's this sort of like,
01:47okay, you got me. All right.
01:50Can we just get through this? All right. All right. Yeah. All right.
01:54I mean, the scene that always, like, is the, when he's getting out of the cocoon.
01:59Sierra's whole, like, yeah, like I meant that, like, no matter what happens.
02:04That, that is, that has been probably the one inside joke in The Roots organization
02:09in which even when you mess up, you just own it, like.
02:12Hello, famous!
02:14The getting lost in the tunnel and then they see the same guy again.
02:18Other way. Other way.
02:19These theaters are old. They all look like that.
02:21They're all broken up in, like, these little hallways.
02:24And this always feels like you're turning kind of to the same hallway.
02:27Rock and roll!
02:28We reference it almost every show.
02:30You're on 10 on your guitar. Where can you go from there?
02:33Where?
02:34I don't know. Nowhere. Exactly.
02:36My favorite part about The Goes to 11 is the pause.
02:41Why don't you just make 10 louder and make 10 be the top number
02:45and make that a little louder?
02:47He's holding. He's taking it in.
02:50Yeah.
02:51And then he says,
02:52These go to 11.
02:53It's both things at once.
02:55It's incredibly profound and it's really stupid.
02:58Did you ever imagine that that, that line would be so iconic?
03:02No. No. We never know.
03:03I know how they danced. The little children of stone age.
03:09When we saw it on the tour bus, we cracked up not knowing that in five years we would practically go through everything that they've gone through.
03:20Like the jazz rock period. You know, someone's girlfriend's hanging around too much. There's a lot of truth in that film, especially with the inside drip of drummers not lasting too long. I took offense to that.
03:34It works as a movie because at the heart of it, it's about this relationship between these two guys and that's what really sticks with you.
03:44It's a sort of romantic comedy because I think the band are married. They're sort of like brothers or husband and wife and they can't really survive apart. It's such a lovely thing where they get back together.
03:57I would say it's the perfect time for Spinal Tap Part 2 because it's fantastic that 40 years have gone by.
04:05I can't think of another film that people have patiently waited or thought they were never going to get a sequel.
04:12I'm fascinated to find out where they are now.
04:15Personally, I want to be in the movie theater to experience Spinal Tap 2. That's the only way to experience this.
04:22I cannot wait to see. What's it called?
04:25It's called Spinal Tap 2. The End Continues.
04:29The End Continues. Spinal Tap 2. The End Continues. September 12th?
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