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There's two things we can't abide in this world: people who are intolerant of other people's podcasts, and the Scuttlebutt Podcast.  Join your ragtag fellowship of TransAtlantic podcasters, Ian, Liam, Kevin, and Georgia (turns out Megs was a fembot all along) as we're heading back to the 1970s to rescue Austin Powers' fajha in the aptly named Goldmember.  We're discussing the challenges in writing sketch based comedic franchises in our 242nd episode as we discuss:

• Does this film peak in the opening 5 minutes?


• What is Liam's criteria for who makes a good Austin Powers actor?


• We discuss Oasis-mania of the past week in the UK


• How can this film feel so dated when it was made in 2004 compared to the more friendly remembered films of the 1990s and before


• Where does Beyonce rank amongst the other leading ladies in the Austin Powers franchises?


• We discuss the challenges of creating additional characters to be played by the same actor


• We talk about the influences on Mike Myers as well as who he may have inspired along the way


• Whether or not Austin Powers in Goldmember is the Best Film Ever

Become a Patron of this podcast and support the BFE at https://www.patreon.com/BFE

We are extremely thankful to our following Patrons for their most generous support:

• Juleen from It Goes Down In The PM


• Hermes Auslander


• James DeGuzman


• Synthia


• Andy Dickson


• Ensign Ian Davies


• Chris Pedersen 


• Duane Smith (Duane Smith!)


• Randal Silva


• The Yeetmeister


• Nate The Great


• Rev Bruce


• Cheezy (with a fish on a bike)


• Richard


• Ryan Kuketz


• Dirk Diggler


• Shai Bergerfroind


• Stew from the Stew World Order podcast


• NorfolkDomus


• John Humphrey's Right Foot


• AJ from Nova Scotia


• Timmy Tim Tim

Catch so much more of Hermes on his podcast, The Scuttlebutt Podcast at . https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-scuttlebutt-podcast/id1503504933 (Apple) or https://open.spotify.com/show/2n9CNB9X6QXnmvn78HBEoJ?si=ca1784afd4874ff3 (Spotify)

Buy some BFE merch at https://my-store-b4e4d4.creator-spring.com/

Massive thanks to Lex Van Den Berghe for the use of 'Mistake' by Luckydog.  Catch more from Lex's new band, The Maids of Honor at https://soundcloud.com/themaidsofhonor

Also massive thanks to Moonlight Social for our age game theme song.  You can catch more from them at https://www.moonlightsocialmusic.com/



Join Hermes in his revolution; he is trying so very hard.