Back to the Future II: Bonus Episode
Erin Cline, Ben Silverio, and Ansel Burch are pop culture observers/ content creators/ excellent friends who are here to make sure everyone has sex with the right people at the right times.
This is the traditional bonus episode. We don’t like to let any of the recording go to waste around here. So, behold the finest cuts from to workbench that are still funny or interesting enough to release.
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Transcript
Ben Silverio 0:05
Hey, I'm Ben Silverio
Erin Cline 0:07
and I'm Erin Cline
Ansel Burch 0:08
and I'm Ansel Burch,
Ben Silverio 0:09
and it's time to
Ansel Burch 0:15
we're not doctors. We don't give medical advice. Please drink responsibly. Today's episode was recorded on january 20, 2025 Thank you for listening into our special bonus episode made up of all the bits that didn't make it into the final cut of our Back to the Future two coverage. I hope you enjoy. And hey, check us out on YouTube. We just added ourselves over there, along with, for the time being, the other show from our network. So check that stuff out over on YouTube. Search for the indecisionist, and you should be able to find us. We will also put a link in the show notes. And without further ado, here you go.
Ben Silverio 1:00
Just go into 2025, with the bisexual panic of Lee Shang.
Ansel Burch 1:14
Oh, you're hot. Why are you hot?
Ben Silverio 1:15
Oh, okay, that poor confused little boy,
Ansel Burch 1:23
I would say he'll figure it out eventually, but it's feudal China. He's not gonna
Ben Silverio 1:27
Hey, they're still together right now. Like, good for them. I'm sure Mulan puts on the armor from time to
Erin Cline 1:35
time. Is Mulan a direct interpretation of 12th Night? Or does it just feel like it. I
Ansel Burch 1:42
think it just feels like, I think there's, there was a legend of Mulan before, okay,
Erin Cline 1:45
it's specifically the boy into, oh, you're a girl. I'm kind of into it either way, like, that's, that's how 12th Night ends, basically
Ansel Burch 1:54
true. I'm sure the writers were, were inspired by that, like in the character choices make sense, because, yeah,
Ben Silverio 2:04
fun, funny story about Lee Shang. I met BD Wong when I was younger at a film festival. And, you know, I was talking about, you know, I'm just like, Man, I'm such a big fan of yours. I love Mulan. I love all these other things. You know, we're talking about all American girl for a second, which was the very first Asian American sitcom, you know, starring Margaret Cho. So that that's, yes, highly recommend seeking it out. It's not great, but it's, it's a, it's a great first step. Margaret Cho did her best, despite what the networks were doing to her,
Erin Cline 2:43
did the best with what she was possibly allowed to do, yeah,
Ben Silverio 2:46
but I mean, BD, Wong played her brother, Amy Hill was on it. It's so good, but, you know, not, but yes, watch. It's important. Don't
Ansel Burch 3:00
oversell it. Yeah, don't, you know,
Erin Cline 3:02
go in with low expectations. But, you know, you should definitely,
Ben Silverio 3:04
right? Yeah. So
I love BD Wong.
One of the things I brought up to BD Wong was, I'll make a man out of you. And he was like, you know, I didn't sing that, right? And I'm just like, what? You don't know who sang it. You
Erin Cline 3:19
didn't know who sang it at the time I did it.
Ansel Burch 3:23
Oh, what a thing to discover. What a thing to discover from BD. Why?
Ben Silverio 3:29
Yeah, he was like, that was Donnie Osmond. And I'm just like, you have a Tony? And he was like, I know, right.
Erin Cline 3:39
You know who we really want on this track, Donnie Osmond.
Ben Silverio 3:44
Of all the fucking people have to pay Donny Osmond way
Erin Cline 3:47
more royalties. Why wouldn't you come with Beatty Wong?
Ben Silverio 3:51
He's already there. Does Beatty
Ansel Burch 3:53
Wong sing that badly? Or something like, yeah, what did he what gives
Erin Cline 3:57
a fantastic singer? Like they saw him on law and order and were like, he can't sing. He can only play
Ansel Burch 4:03
cops. We got to get somebody in for this. When
Erin Cline 4:06
we he was in the episode of X TRex that we ran called social class disparity. And I used the X Files episode hell money that he's in. And our producer, Bobby pointed out to me about halfway through the episode, he was like, Erin's doing this thing I really like where she stops using a character name and refuses to use anything but their real name. And so I just kept calling him Beatty Wong over and over and over. And at the end, Bobby had to be like, Okay, this is the character she was actually talking about. And I was like, everyone knows who BD Wong was. You don't have to tell them the character
Ansel Burch 4:38
name. That is a tradition that we have kept here on bet on time to party.
Ben Silverio 4:41
It's true that does. That does happen a lot.
Erin Cline 4:44
I don't care what the characters names are.
Ansel Burch 4:48
You know. Christopher Lloyd, yeah,
Ben Silverio 4:54
you know, we didn't do the synopsis. You. For website. Not too late. Well, we'll fix it in post, right? We'll put we'll put it where it needs to go. We'll do it live. Yeah, we'll do it live. Did you see what they did to It's A Wonderful Life. No. Okay, so private video has three versions of it on their service right now, the original black and white, the color one and the abridged version. Oh, the TV version. No, not even the TV version. The abridged version basically takes out all the Potterville stuff. What movies about? It's what the fucking movie is about. Why? I don't understand it. I don't get it. I don't know why they would do it.
Erin Cline 5:52
It's just depressed for no reason. There's just no explanation for why he's so fucking depressed.
Ben Silverio 5:58
No, I mean, it stops at the bridge, like a home, no, no, like the so it goes up until the the part of the bridge, and then Clarence saves him, and then he goes back to the house. It's fucking ridiculous. I have no idea why this exists. There's no good reason for it. It's, yeah, it's,
Ansel Burch 6:25
I'm offended. I am too. I
Ben Silverio 6:26
hate I hate it so much, but I do have a much better it's wonderful life memory that I created this year because at the Egyptian theater they were playing it. So I bought tickets for my parents and my aunts and we all go, went to go see it. I also bought us matching shirts, nice. So I went to the Universal Studios garage sale, and they had these shirts that were, like, yellow and like maroon that said, like, you know, one of their catchphrases about writing the movies, like, live, love, ride the movies, or some shit like that. It was super cool. But, you know, I got them all for my family, and we all wore them to go watch the movie, and I found out there that it was the first time any of them have seen the movie. Wow. And so at the end, my mom was just like, oh, so nothing happens to the bad guy, like Potter just gets off. And I'm just like, yeah, like, real life. That's how it works. That's how it
Erin Cline 7:31
works. Like he's he's a little reprimanded, but nothing actually happens to him, you know, like fucking Biff in this. That's the thing about Biff, too, in this right? Is that I don't know, maybe this is okay. Here's how the thing that I feel strange about Biff, about Biff sucks, right? He's a shitty person. He is a bully in high school. He grows up to be like a shitty car salesman or whatever in the first one, and he's just like a bully and an asshole that obviously escalates. He gets the the book his his old self. Version of self is just like a crotchety shitty, angry at the world dude, I assume because his auto dealership went bankrupt, or fucking whatever happens to old people. And so you get to see this horrible version of him all the way up through 2015 and then he goes back, and then you come back, and then you go back again. And by the time you get to the like, rearranged, correct, 1985 Biff, is that? Like, oh, let me help you out. Hey, how you doing? Oh, man, let me, let me open that door for you. And, like, when does that happen? How? How does that part of him come out? Like, the idea in the first one is that he is shitty because he gets the shit beat out of him, right? Like, how in the second one, is it the same idea, or because it just feels like we get this burst of him and that personality in a way that, like, I don't this, maybe this is a timeline thing. I don't totally understand how that tracks. Like, is it just because he got the shit beat out of him in the first one, or does the stuff from the second one negate that? Like, I'm sorry, this is a much bigger timeline question, I think. But like, I always found it surprising that once you fix it, he winds up as, like, the best version of himself.
Ben Silverio 9:10
Well, I think it's partly a facade, because, like, He's scared of George at this point, because George was the one who put him in his place. So he's just like, Oh, Mr. McFly, I have your books. Like, you know, he turns into this, like, doting, like, servant or servient, yeah? But just to George, because, like, when he thinks someone's fucking with their car, he's just like, hey Butthead, yeah? Oh, hey Marty, that's true.
Ansel Burch 9:37
You're right. He's still an asshole, yeah? He's just starts
Ben Silverio 9:41
to run for the McFly man that
Erin Cline 9:43
just totally flew past me. You're right. Man, what a strange anyway, I love Biff. I think that he's a very fascinating character. A
Ben Silverio 9:52
little the tannins. Big fans, yes, like and,
Erin Cline 9:55
I mean, you've interviewed Tom Wilson before. You know he's like, just a delightful man. No. Also, like, just embraced being Biff. It's like, Yeah, this is what people know me for. I did a fucking great job as Biff. Like, in any, like, you dress him up, anytime in this entire series, like he crushes it. Tom Wilson always delivers on this movie, on these movies, Oh, yeah.
Ben Silverio 10:18
And pretty much in anything that I've seen, it been like Freaks and Geeks. He was really good in, you know, he was on ledges of tomorrow. He was really good in, like so many things like, he's had a pretty fruitful career. I think he rules.
Ansel Burch 10:35
When I did Starlight radio dreams, we did a serial called Public Domain adventure team. Oh, my God. And it was a series of adventure stories that featured Beowulf, Jane Eyre, the ghost of Christmas past, Mr. Toad.
Erin Cline 10:49
Oh, my God, Toad Hall, I vaguely remember that Jane Eyre one. I'm pretty sure I went to one of those shows.
Ansel Burch 10:55
Probably, yeah, I love we got a lot of mileage out of that one. And they would go into other books from public domain and like, fix their problems or whatever. So
Ben Silverio 11:05
going back to my extreme love of back the future, I have to share this. When the Los Angeles Fire started, obviously everyone was like, packing their shit up in a hurry and grabbing what they could. Two of the things that I grabbed were my Funko Pops, signed by by Michael J Fox and Christopher Lloyd, yeah. One of the things that I left, not on purpose, was my signed Thor The Dark World poster signed by Stan Lee.
Erin Cline 11:40
Really important. These, these two things, you know, it's harder to carry things
Ben Silverio 11:46
true, you know. And, like, I did grab my, my framed picture with Stanley. So, like, I
Erin Cline 11:53
know Stanley, I don't need, yeah, second one. It's,
Ben Silverio 11:58
you know, it's, I saw a meme of like, oh, everyone in LA returning to the stuff that they left behind when they evacuated, like, giving an awkward look and be like, Hey, what's up, guys?
Erin Cline 12:15
The funniest joke. And it was a friend of mine that we used to date. And so that's part of why I was like, it's and you live in LA, it's okay. La, it's okay that you're sending me this. But she sent me a post that was like, a lot of people in LA are figuring out who the primary partner is right now, which I could not stop laughing about, because it means
Unknown Speaker 12:33
that there are people
Erin Cline 12:34
who are like, in a triad, and they're like, Oh, we're equally important. And then they realize, because of this fire, you're not. You're absolutely not. And so then coming back to that, that's what I imagine, is coming back like, Oops, sorry, yeah, like, that's how I picked bread.
Ben Silverio 12:53
I just
Erin Cline 12:55
my own joke, right? I was just like, Sarah,
Ansel Burch 12:58
holy shit. What a way to make those discoveries, yeah,
Erin Cline 13:03
like you're going through a horror. You're it's already so difficult, and then you realize you have this emotional one two punch coming right at, yeah,
Ansel Burch 13:13
God, I had nerd about that. And that's, oh, God,
Ben Silverio 13:17
I God it. I think this just goes to show that my mind goes everywhere. So while I was evacuating, it sent me towards the Eaton fire in order to get to the one highway that I needed to take to go south, right, which was truly insane. I didn't realize it until it was like happening, right? And so everything around me looked like mad, Max Fury, road like that hue, Oh, yeah. And one of the things I thought while I was driving through, I'm just like, Would it be in bad taste to play bad religion right now? Because they have that song, Los Angeles is burning. I didn't play it. I just needed to play something that would be calming, actually. Now I think about I was listening to now your demographic, oh,
Erin Cline 14:09
that's very nice. I would have been horrified if you died listening to that.
Ansel Burch 14:17
You mean hearing his friends voices. I think that's right. I
Erin Cline 14:21
guess it depends on the timestamp. I wish good timestamps for you inside of that, I guess that's very touching. I'm very happy to hear that. But
Ben Silverio 14:30
yeah, I I had not shared these stories previously on anything, and I'm just like, Oh, does this make me a bad person? Am I weirdo for thinking this stuff? But you know, if humor will help you through a tough time, then do it right. Yeah,
Erin Cline 14:46
dude, if I'm afraid I'm gonna die, I'm not about to be judged about anything that I'm doing for the next 24 hours. Oh my god. Oh yeah. Like, for real, fear of God, I'm about to die. You don't get to judge me. I don't get it's like the Purgatory between. Thanks. Giving a new year where calories don't count, like, right? That. That's how it is. This behavior. Don't look at it. I don't want to explain it. Those, those 14 chestnuts I just ate. Don't talk to me about them ever again. This
Ansel Burch 15:11
is all instinct. Nothing else can happen. God,
Ben Silverio 15:14
that one quote from Bob's Burgers has never been truer. It's like, oh, it's been a tough year, dad. It's the second week of January. Yeah. You can find us on the internet. I am at B Silverio 20 on Instagram, X letter box, blue sky, all that stuff. You can find
Erin Cline 15:33
me at nydurgency on Instagram.
Ansel Burch 15:38
You can find me at the indecisionist on blue sky and all the meta properties. This has been an indecisionist production. Special thanks to April moralpa for our podcast art, and to Marlon longit of Marlon and the shakes for our amazing theme song.
Ben Silverio 15:52
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Ansel Burch 16:04
as well as time the number two party all spelled out just Warwick. Thanks,
Ben Silverio 16:10
Warwick, until next time, friends, be excellent to each other. Party
Erin Cline 16:15
on dudes.
Ben Silverio 16:17
Is that it? Yep, it's like riding a bike. I know this. I know this.
Ansel Burch 16:26
Do you want to say it again with confidence? Sure. Or we could keep we could keep that one.
Erin Cline 16:30
We'll do it again
Unknown Speaker 16:33
later. I.
