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The last video store.

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This is Alexei Toliopoulos coming at you before you hear this brand new piece of audio from the twisted minds of myself and my dearest friend Cameron James. Many, many years ago, in fact, it is mainly where our careers did begin, was on a podcast called Mic Check. A film dedicated to the life of Mike Myers checking in on his films to see if they were shagadelic or not. That podcast has laid dormant for many, many years, but...

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There's been a duty to bring it back because Mike Myers himself has become far more active in the last few weeks. In fact, he has gone so far through hinting, nay, dare I say declaring, on a Trevor Noah podcast that they will be an Austin Powers 4. So...

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Mic Check is back, baby. And we are releasing the first episode in this feed of the Mic Check return, but the old Mic Check podcast feed is being reactivated. So if you haven't subscribed to it back in the day, subscribe to it now and get back into Mic Check, baby. I've got the links in the show notes to the Spotify and the Apple Podcasts, but...

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Get ready for two guys to put on a couple of hats that were from the Spy Who Shagged Me crew. And they will be talking about Mike Myers from henceforth. For how long, we don't know. But it will be more than one episode. It'll be several episodes. It's Mike Jack. It's Mike Jack. The podcast about Mike Myers.

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Cameron James, my beautiful boy. Alexi Teleopolis, my dear. I'm about to say something we have not said in many, many years. Hello, horny babies, and welcome back to Mic Check, the only podcast that goes through the entire filmography, nay, dare I say, life of Mike Myers, just to check if they're still shagadelic babies.

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The borders have been closed for several years now, but our passports have been stamped. We have made it through customs. We have declared podcasters, horny babies, waniacs. And while we're at customs, yes, they did look through our luggage and we had to declare certain things in there.

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And certain things that they look through, I'll admit, they're not my bag, baby. Absolutely not my bag, baby. Not my bag, baby. You think I want to carry a Swedish-made penis in large arms? No, sir. No, not my bag. No. Crushed velvet suit, yes. Yes. Beetle boots, yes. Buongiorno, boys.

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But we are through customs. We have been cleared by security. We have been de-loused. We have been de-loused. And we are back into the Mike Czech Republic. And let me say this. It feels good to be back, baby. It feels so good to be back. I'm a little older. I'm a little wiser. I'm starting to get some hair in some really weird places. Yeah. On the nutsack, from what I imagined. Yeah. It started to sprout down there. I don't know what's going on in your nutsack department.

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Chia. Yeah. There we go. Another Wainsaw to reference. Is it a chia pet? You treat your scrotum like a chia pet? Yeah. I've just got some little chia seeds on there. Trying to sprout some of my own, actually, dude. Okay. It's exciting to be back in the Mike Czech Republic, and it's also timely to be back. Timely to be back. In the Mike Czech Republic, because there has been some activity.

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Yeah, honestly, it felt like something's been happening, man. Like something has really been happening. Mike has reactivated like a sleeper agent waiting for us. Well, we're the sleeper agents, I guess. That's true. And he was the beacon that came off to signify that we should be coming back into action. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But there was something happening, you know. Like Mike just was in the news a lot.

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I don't know if in the news a lot or if it's like just my feed. Or just because people send us everything related to him. Everything still. But it felt like he was in the news a lot. It felt like a beacon had shot off, you know? Like Mike was... Maybe we should try and break down what happened.

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Okay, well, maybe we should start with some news. Okay, well, Breaking Myers news. Mike Myers is back, baby. Just interrupt for one second. Did you say Breaking Myers news or Breckenmeyer news? I don't know if I listen to you. Every time I've said this...

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What do you think I'm saying? I think I honestly, I swear to God I'm hearing Breckenmire News. Breckenmire News, okay. Is that what you said? I've never once said Breckenmire News until you've said it, and then I have to go, I didn't say that. So you don't have an update on Breckenmire? Is that what you're saying? I don't know what he's up to. Breckenmire News probably has a podcast about robot chickens.

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Is my guess. If I have to guess what Breckenmeyer is up to. Well, I mean, I've researched because I thought that's what we were doing. Maybe he's on the Scrubs revival. That is such a hot guess. Breckenmeyer news. Breckenmeyer is on Young Sheldon and he's on the Scrubs revival is my guess.

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Do you know, he's not acting that much. He is largely operating in his role as executive producer of Robot Chicken, which for some reason is still running. No, it's not. Are you serious? Yeah. It's still going. Oh, my God. The weird specials that they do. That's great. No, but there is actually some breaking my news that I have researched for you because I thought that's what this podcast was. Yeah.

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Um, this is coming to you live from Hollywood reporter.com a fabulous website based on a, uh, trade paper. Yeah. Trade paper magazine. A trade paper. And for people who don't know what a trade paper is, Alexi, what is that?

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Well, let's just say it discusses the tips of the trade. What's going on in Hollywood right now? A trade paper is about whatever trades that you are interested in, whatever industry you're focused on. And for us, it's film. Yeah. I don't think plumbers probably have a trade paper as well. Yeah, they might be. Probably.

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I don't think of any other industry, and plumbing was the first one I thought of. I thought of Baker. Baker. Yeah. I like that we both go to, like, you know, the two greatest needs. Yeah, yeah, yeah. One to feed thyself, one to make sure it gets as far away from me at a certain point.

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One goes in, one goes out. No, here's some hot gossip for you from livefromthehollywoodreporter.com. Yes. Lisa Kudrow and Mira Savino are back for Romy and Michelle's sequel with mix of original stars and new cast. Oh, my God.

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And we're... Did you know this? This is so cool. They announced it with a very cool enigmatic photo of the backs of their heads sitting on those director chairs with their names on it. Romeo and Michelle? Yes. Oh my God. Very cool. It's got... Who's coming back? Let's have a look. I think Janine Garofalo is coming back. Thank God. Alan Cumming is coming back. Oh, thank God. Cameron Manheim is coming back. Cool. Yeah. Yeah.

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And we've got some new cast as well, including Patrick Warburton. Oh, great. Oh, I'd love to see Patrick Warburton up there. Yes. Rob Hubel. Oh, Rob Hubel. It's me, Rob Hubel. Keegan-Michael Key. Okay.

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And last but definitely not least, Breckenmire has been announced as a cast member of Romy and Michelle. That is Breckenmire news. That really excites me. Honestly, get Mike in there. Imagine that. Make it Breckenmire's news too. Like if you just go, and by the way, we reeled in the big one.

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We finally got him. Mike Myers is going to be the principal in Romeo and Michelle's Oscar Union. As Tommy Maitland. As Tommy Maitland. As Tommy Maitland. And featuring Mike Myers as Tommy Maitland, as the principal. Hello, my cheeky monkeys. Good to have you on back for the 20th anniversary. And now why don't we sing our school anthem, Shaving Cream.

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We just killed any new listeners. I know, I know. We just freaking capped their asses. We just went in to go, by the way, you're not welcome here, and shot them in the hands. Yes, I've been taken around the back of the building, lined up, hands tied behind their backs. Well, my Czech Republic might be a republic nation, but we are a hostile state. If you do not play by our rules, we will liquidate you. We will freaking cut.

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Cap your ass cartel style. Yeah, we will cartel your ass. And we will cut your head off and send it to your family, you fuck. And that's because you didn't get in on our humour, okay? You can sing our national anthem, cheeky monkey, shaving cream song from the Gong Show revival. So Mike Myers as a fictional British 1970s era comedian doing his first US appearances as Tommy Maitland.

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Lest we forget, executive produced by Will Arnett. Oh, yeah. That's awesome. Get them to do something not shit together. So we're talking about breaking Myers news, not breaking Myers news. So what's the breaking Myers news? Well, there is so much going on. There's so, so much going on. It's like Mike just came back. You know, Mike came back. He had a few...

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He had eight years in the wilderness, then came back, did a few more movies, then he's gone back into the wilderness, and then he did the Pentavrit TV show, and now he's been in the wilderness since then. Popping up, doing some SNL bits here and there, popping up as Elon Musk in some things. He's very, very humorous, and he's excellent at playing that kind of whacked out character. But something has happened, and I'm trying to break down the timeline, because I think the timeline-wise was...

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Canadian Screen Awards happened where Nirvana the Band, dear friends of mine, Matt Johnson and Jay McCarroll, who have appeared on my podcast The Last Video Store and we've been really close ever since. Nirvana the Band won some big awards there, but the biggest award of the night, the Canadian Screen Awards, was the Icon Award given to Mike Myers. Yes, yeah. I think that's where it all begins. Yes, I think so. I think this is relevant information because this is Mike...

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being literally told by his mother nation and his peers and his fans that he is an icon. He is now a screen icon. A Canadian screen icon. And you see him up on that stage accepting that award and he's wearing a nicely fitted suit, the sleeve. Oh, my God. Sleeve check? Sleeve check. The sleeve is pretty on point. Yeah. A little, little long for whatever, for contemporary tastes. Sure.

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But it's on point. Yeah. No ruffles to be seen. No, no, no. It's pretty. He looks lovely in this suit. I think he looks fantastic. I think he's in great shape. He looks... His hair, natural, natural hair. Love the white hair. Love the white hair. And I love the cut on the hair as well. Yeah, me too. I think the cut looks great. I love the cut. Yeah. I love the cut.

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And I think- He looks handsome as. He looks really handsome. Did I say he made me want- Yeah, yeah, yeah. He looks chagadelic. Yeah, he does look chagadelic. He looks fantastic. And he tears up quite a bit in this speech. And that is also very beautiful to watch. It's sincere because, you know, he's- I think this is one of my favorite award acceptance speeches ever because it is so- Not just on the sleeves are there no frills. Neither the speech has no frills either.

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The speech has so little frill that they leave in about a minute-long bit where he's asking the teleprompt guy to scroll back. It goes for so long. Yeah, it's a long speech. It's a six-minute long speech, and I swear to God, 45 seconds of it is him going, scroll back a little more, scroll back, scroll back.

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Alright, thank you. And then picking it up again from where you live. But that's the Canadian charm of it all. Yeah, yeah. So you're seeing him on this stage, and it's like you've got these giant LED screens, and this is when you know he's an icon. Giant LED screens, mics on the stage. Yeah. You get the big wide shot of the whole room. You're seeing the auditorium, and it just says, Shrek, Shrek,

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Goldfinger, gold member. Yeah. You know, just like all these images of Wayne. They're all just popping up on the screen. Guru Pitka, didn't see him. No, I didn't see Guru Pitka. I didn't do any acknowledgement to Guru Pitka. From what I can gather, I wasn't in the room. There is some serious Guru Pitka erasure going on. Yeah. And that's something I'd love to get into on my spinoff podcast. Guru Pitka erasure. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Drew Pitca erased an investigation. Why is no one talking about Drew Pitca anymore? Oh, okay. One episode going, yeah, I think I know why. I guess people hate it. But it's on a different feed. It's not on this podcast. So you're seeing that. And then the speech, I love this speech. It makes you think of how sincere and grateful he is. Because this speech doesn't have him telling some story about his life.

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He uses this opportunity to quite literally thank all the people that helped him get started or helped him in his career from his brothers, Paul and Pete, who are in the audience. You get to see them. I love seeing Paul Myers out there. Yeah, I love seeing Paul Myers. Paul Myers, one of my favorite authors. He's written some great books about kids in the hall. Yeah. And the bad naked ladies. And John Candy. Haven't read the John Candy one. And he has one of my favorite haircuts. Yeah.

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Yeah, it's like Mike Myers haircut. It's a little bit floppy. It's like the beetle cut, really. Yeah, it looks so cool. I use the person I have a parasocial relationship with. I just like all these Instagram posts. I love Paul Myers.

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I love him. He's one of my heroes, I guess. He's my hero's brother. Hell, you modelled your whole life on the guy. Pretty much. Yeah. I reckon I have. Yeah. And then, so he just thanks him. He thanks his parents. And when he thanks his father- He gets verklempt. He gets- He gets me. I'm like, I get it. I love that. And that is just one of the five times that he gets verklempt. But then, when he gets really verklempt, is at the end when he talks about how proud he is to be Canadian. When he thanks the Canadian taxpayer-

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Which I thought when I saw that, I thought, would I do that if I won? Would I thank the Canadian taxpayers? If I won some kind of award or if we won some kind of award, would we thank the Australian taxpayer? Well, it depends what the project was.

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I would say thanks to the Australian taxpayer, no thanks to some of the people that handle that money as it comes towards us. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I would probably do that. That's a fun way to do it. You thank them and then I'll say the snide remark. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then I'll name someone that I'm pissed off at. And you can name his name right now. No, no, no. Because I'll get the clips. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We were trying to get Mike check up as a TV show.

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They wouldn't let us do it. He also thanks the suburb that he was raised in, his teachers at school. John Candy, Gilderadna, who we worked with. Dave Foley, who is on stage with him. Yeah. And then, yeah, as you say, at the end, he gets the most verklempt when he's thanking Canada itself. He's genuinely crying. It is so emotionally raw. Yeah.

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It's like the scene from Interstellar when Matthew McConaughey is watching his kids grow up. That's a good video you could make. You're seeing all the clips of like- Matthew McConaughey watching the Mike Myers speech and crying. Timothy Chalamet becomes Casey Affleck and then it cuts back to Mike Myers crying.

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With the beautiful interstellar music. I think that's a good clip. It's so emotionally raw. And there aren't really any jokes in it. No, it's not funny. It's just sincere. He's winning an Icon Award. It's not technically a comedy award. No. But he's achieved icon status for his role as a comedian. And it is six minutes of utter, sincere, naked emotion. And I loved it. Yeah, me too. I loved it. Because, you know...

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When I'm watching, I go like, if I won an award one day, who would I thank? And you want to thank all the people that got you to the point. Because a lot of times, people think that it's an overnight success.

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Yeah. But no, it's years of doing podcasts about Mike Myers to get your foot in the door. Not many people know that, but it is years of doing podcasts about Mike Myers. That's where it all starts, you know. People don't know. They go, wow, you were great on Race Around the World as a judge. How did you get there? Yeah, I did a podcast about Mike Myers 10 years ago, and Hamish Blake heard it. And so did Will Anderson. It started my career. Yeah.

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But that is a very beautiful moment, and I think that that is the spark that sets off this next current wave that we are in. The fuse is lit. He now has, I think, after many, many years of wavering confidence, I think he now feels like he has some swagger.

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I think it is maybe him being like, I'm an elder statesman now. Let me do some of these elder statesman things. Yes, because I feel like, you know, since Guru Pitka, who, again, you can listen to me analyze on my spinoff podcast, Guru Pitka Erased, an investigation. Yeah, and there is a colon in after Guru Pitka, colon, erased. Yeah. And then there's some episodes I released on the Guru Pitka, colon, erased, question mark. Yeah.

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I think since that film came out, The Love Guru, his confidence has been so up and down. And you can see that in the projects that he's chosen. You can see that in his late night talk show appearances or the speeches that he's given in award ceremonies. He doesn't quite seem like the Mike that we knew, the Mike that we loved. And I just want to say, Mike, you're in a Tarantino movie after that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're in one of his best films.

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Yeah. That's cool, man. It's so cool, man. Yeah. So cool. But he didn't seem to carry that with him. But I think now he seems really happy and sure in himself. I think so. He's appearing on fucking podcasts. He's on Trevor Noah's World Cup rewatch podcast. And that is one of the big moments that we need to talk about. So after Canadian Screen Awards, he then makes a speech as Shrek is...

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At the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award that was presented to Eddie Murphy, Mr. Edward Murphy. Yeah, he's the co-star of Shrek. He plays Donkey in those movies. I wrote this down because I wanted to, and maybe we can talk about the full speech at length in future, but... Yeah, maybe we do that on the Guru Pitko Race podcast. But he compares Eddie Murphy to... This is what he says. He says...

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I never got to perform with Charlie Chaplin, Alec Guinness, or Peter Sellers. Oh, my God. But I will be honored for the rest of my life that I got to work with Eddie Murphy. He's comparing Eddie Murphy to those three. I actually got a chill just there. Isn't that beautiful? God, that's beautiful. And he's dressed as Shrek while he says this.

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And he's probably crying saying that because that's sincere. Mike can access that on a drop of a cat in a hat, you know? He's sincerity. I think that's so good. And I think it's apt. Yeah. Do you think it's apt? I think it's so apt. That's it. We got an apt in the hat. I think Ed Murphy is as good as those guys.

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I mean, I think he's funny than fucking Alec Guinness. I'll give him that. You know, everyone always says, like, Alec Guinness is one of the great comic actors. I've literally only ever seen him as Ben Kenobi. I don't know if he's funny or not. Yeah. He's one of the great comic actors. What do you know from Lawrence of Arabia and Star Wars, I guess? Yeah. I've seen, like, Laverly Hill Mob and, like, you know, Lady Killers. Yeah, he's funny. Is he as funny as Ed Murphy?

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No one is. There's like five guys that I would say is funny as Eddie Murphy. One of them is Mike Myers. Charlie Chaplin I'd chuck in there. Yeah. The little hobo or whatever. The tramp. Yeah, but if you start fighting me on it, I'd go, okay, get rid of him and put John Candy in instead or stuff like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Chris Farley. He does something, you know, he might does a shout out to Chris Farley as well in that. He does. He can screen awards a speech as well. The original Shrek. The original Shrek, yeah. That's also very apt. That's what he calls him, the original Shrek, Chris Farley. OG Shrek.

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So we have the Icon Award, then we have the Ed Murphy tribute. What are you saying Ed Murphy for? Have you met him recently and you get to call him Ed? I just think since... You're worried people will get confused if the dog from Frasier have to call him Eddie too many times.

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Since Ed Murphy won that award, since he's had the documentary come out about him and he's a bit older now, I think we should drop the Eddie because he's not a boy anymore. He's not a boy. He's the man. He's an older man. Ed J. Murphy, I reckon. Chuck a J in there. Ed J. Murphy.

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I think it's, like, appropriate and respectful that we call him Ed. Well, you're going to start calling him Michael Myers? You've got a whole other confusion on their hands now. Mikey. Mikey Myers. Not bad. Not bad. He is a bit of a Mikey. He is a bit of a Mikey. So, those two award shows happen. Mike's back in the zeitgeist a little bit. Then he appears on Trevor Noah's World Cup rewatch podcast. Before that. Before that. Oh, you're right. There is another step before that. Before that, it's this huge thing that, you know...

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If you're listening to this, you sent me this video, by the way. Really? People, if you're listening to this podcast right now, you sent me this video. And I even... And I... Can I tell you? As soon as I saw this, I was up late at night. This video came up into my feed and I shared it immediately with the caption going...

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I have seen this. You don't need to send it to me. Steel got sent to me dozens and dozens of times. Yeah, I get sent... Not only that, I get sent AI-generated news articles about it. Oh, wow. Okay. Like on Instagram, I'd be like, Did you know Mike Myers has confirmed Austin Powers 4, but after this Verizon thing. So, this Verizon commercial comes out, where the gang gets back together.

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Everybody that you could possibly want comes back together name them. I'm naming them Mike Myers as as Dr Evil, okay, and who else is there Mindy Sterling as Frau Fabissina. Yes, who else Scotty Green as Scotty evil And rounding out the cast is number two played by

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Which one? I can't- Not Robert Wagner, but why can't I say his name? Low. Rob Lowe. Low, which is what I think of Robert Wagner. I think he's a low-down, dirty dog. He's a low dog. I think he's a low dog. I think that he is- Not even alleged. You can't even say alleged, because I don't know if he was ever alleged. Yeah. He did some- Rumored. Yeah, rumored. Possible. Possible accomplice to Christopher Walken killing him.

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Allegedly We can say allegedly about Christopher Watt Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah Nothing of that happens We don't know if that happened We weren't there on the night But if I had a time machine It's where I'd go back to Absolutely, of course To find out Not even to save the day Just to find out Just to witness it Just to dramatize myself with Hollywood history So they do this commercial for Verizon Fantastic commercial It is really funny Everybody looks amazing They all look great And everybody is acting great

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They've slipped right back into their characters. Yeah. And you would have thought that all those years on Robot Chicken alongside Breckenmire would have, you know, that Seth Green would not be screen ready. He's screen ready. He's screen ready. Absolutely screen ready. He looks fantastic. His acting is tip top. Here's how I imagine they prepared for it. I imagine they all got in a costume and then they were all like, oh, fuck, I can't remember how to do this character. And they sat around Seth Meyers' phone because he's the young butt. Yeah. Or Seth Green's phone. Yeah.

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I don't know if Seth Meyers was on set. By the way, Seth Meyers does like... Okay, this is my thought. I've just had a thought. Breckenmeyer and Seth Meyers and Seth Green, there's something happening there.

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something there there's a certain type of guy if you've got Seth Green and Breckenmire and you put one in one teleportation chamber and one in the other Cronenberg style and you teleported them at the same time Seth Meyers would walk out of that thing I think that's perfectly put really well put

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so I'm they all sat around Seth Green pulled his phone out and they all watched the zip it scene yeah and that got them back in the car they got into it yeah it is so fresh the way that they're doing it feels like they haven't skipped a beat I feel like they must they must have just watched a clip together rhythm back and the voices back I reckon they would have had maybe a full day of rehearsal

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Where they're just like getting... They're playing Zip Zap, you know? They're doing improv games. Maybe getting back to it. I wonder who directed it. Jay Roach, I hope. Wouldn't it be crazy if they... It wouldn't be crazy, I think. To go, we're going to make an Austin Powers... We can't talk about the Verizon commercial for it forever. Yeah.

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Yeah, I know, we can't. In fact, we should... We should do a full episode. We should do... I think it does deserve a full episode. And you know what? The ad was developed in-house and directed by Jay Roach. God! So it is a Jay Roach joint. It's a Jay Roach joint. Far out, dude. That's crazy. Jay Roach joint. God!

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Imagine that That makes me think of weed Three different things that are actually Ways to describe smoking weed And that's awesome That's awesome That's why he's the coolest director Because his name is so weed like

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Bombshell is a J-Roach joint Yeah it is man That's crazy Because it will blow your mind Yeah You see Bombshell Meet the Fockers God Is a J-Roach joint Yeah it is Is the new Meet the Fockers A J-Roach joint I hope so Because otherwise How am I going to get blazed God I want that Grande joint Yeah big time Big time Scarlett Gisondo joint Oh Scarlett Gisondo's on it too Yeah man Gisondo's what they call a joint In Italy by the way I can't

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Let's get Sky High on this jazondo, brother. She had huge jazondos. Oh, B.A.

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So, the Verizon commercial, which we will, I think, probably need to talk about. Yeah. We should do an audio commentary slowed down. Like when Roger Ebert used to screen movies at universities, he'd press pause and then talk like 20 minutes. We should do that. We should do that. We should do that. That's a live show. After this, he appears on Trevor Noah's World Cup podcast. And Trevor Noah, at a certain point, asks him, I believe it's a fan sent in question. Will there ever be an Austin Powers 4?

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This clip is a sensation This clip is an absolute sensation He asks him point blank Is there going to be an Austin Powers 4 Right after this commercial And then allow me to describe this clip to you Because I don't want you to watch it I want you to experience it through my mouth Is Adam OBA by the way

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But the moment is, Trevor Nell asked him, is there going to be an Austin Powers 4? The camera doesn't even have a moment to cut to Mike. Yeah. You asked me the question. You asked me the question. Is there going to be an Austin Powers 4? Yes.

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It's like that. Yeah, it's like he says it so fast then the camera cuts to Mike and he's already taking a drink He's putting a little jubilee's mouth. He's like a little jubilee's mouth And I go that is the most the most hard-learned Confirmation I've ever seen yeah where he says it with such a

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Fucking electricity He's got his swagger back That icon award really helped his self esteem He's wearing the Maple Leafs jersey or something I'm assuming He looks fantastic The hair is on point We love the cut sleeves On that hockey jersey pretty big But that's okay That's okay Yeah that's the style And he just is confident He's feeling himself And he believes in himself And since that clip Which went officially viral Officially it went viral It went viral TM

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He's now been referencing this quite a few times on social media On his social media, I'm going on to MikeMeyer's Instagram.com Which is my... A really wonderful website It's a great website if you want to see Mike and Mike's photos So this is what's been going on

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There's a post, 10th of May, 2022, where he's just on the red carpet of the Pentavirot or something. Great. Which is his Netflix program, which we did an episode about. You can find on the Total Reboot feed. Then, 16th of June, we get the Verizon commercial. He's a collaborator on that. And he accepted. He accepted the collab post. Then he posts the Shrek 5 trailer.

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Yeah, yeah. On the 19th of June. That is like three days later. Wow. Then on the 24th of June, he posts a photo of... Wow, okay. I didn't see this. So, this is a photo of Roblo, Seth, aka Scott...

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Ralph Arbissner, Mike Myers as Dr. Evil. A selfie on Seth. A selfie. What's a Sethie? Seth took the photo. And Jay Roach. A Jay Roach joint. Jay Roach is joining them at the back. He's at the back. And that is on the 24th of June. Then he just posts some stuff about Canada's soccer team, posts some stuff about New York.

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Then he posts, let's go Team Canada about- With a picture of Wayne and Garth. Wayne and Garth. Then he's got a very happy Canada Day to all my fellow Canadians. And Paul Myers replies, happy Canada Day, Mike. Canada Day, Mike. Which is awesome because Paul could have just texted his brother. I like that. But he kept it public. And then he posts, you know, happy 4th of July. It's him and Chris Farley and I think Rob Smigel.

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Yep, and that is not an AI post. That is a photo from back in the day. Yeah, he's got the photo. Then he just puts some little images over the top. He's added some text and some emojis. Then he posts, Huge congrats to Team England. Nail biter. Hashtag yeah, baby. Hashtag Team England. And it's a picture of Austin Powers with yeah, baby. With some font from Instagram. What's interesting here is he's showing allegiance to three separate nations. Yes.

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Which I think only Mike can do. Mike, Czech Republic. Yeah. Show us some allegiance, mate. And what's the... Is that the most recent post? The most recent one is one day ago. Okay. From when we're recording this. Interesting. Mike Myers with the song accompanying the Instagram post is Dr. Evil cover of Just the Two of Us, Dr. Evil Mix. And it is... I don't know what this meme is. It's really current and I don't know.

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Two people who climbed to the top of whatever that building is in New York City and they hung a flag. Okay. And it's illegal that they did that. Okay, it's illegal. And then they- They've done an illegal thing and they had some, I assume, I can't remember, but I assume some political message in there. Okay. That Mike has now hijacked.

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Mike has hijacked it and it just says on the flag, I hear Austin Powers 4 is happening, dot, dot, dot. Yes. And then he says, oh no, the first reply that I'm seeing on there is from an account that I follow, Austin Powers impersonator. Oh, this is magical, baby, yeah. I mean, that guy would be stoked. He'd be so happy. He'd be so happy. My rates are about to go up.

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Groovy, baby, yeah. So this is... There's something happening. There's something happening out there. What do you think is happening? I think...

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Mike is gearing up for his next big creative wave. He's obviously got Shrek 5 coming out. I genuinely believe that he wants to work on another Austin Powers movie. I mean, we have been burnt before. Yeah. There was discussion of a Dr. Evil spinoff at some point.

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But, you know, right now I feel like he's feeling confident. He's feeling like he's earned his place as like an elder statesman or a legend of comedy. And I think he wants to play again. You know, he did some SNL work a year or so ago. I feel like what we're building up to is the beginning of the next wave of Mike Myers as comedy legend status, maybe doing the hits like the nostalgia tour.

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Hitting back over some of the old classics Do you think there is a script? No I don't think there's a script either It doesn't feel like a PR campaign But I don't even think it's as targeted as I need to start building the groundswell No I think it's just like He's like, you know what? I reckon he's like I had a great day doing the shoot on Verizon Yeah, I would love to do that again

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And I'd love to do that again. I'm seeing all these familiar faces and I'm having this fun time riffing with these people that I have had the most fun and success with. His kids are a little older. They're a little wiser. They're a little wiser. I don't have any other comments.

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He's probably ready to work again. Yeah. And I don't know if there'd be an Austin Powers 4 script floating around, but we know that he has dabbled in writing more on the Austinverse in the past, be it the Dr. Evil spinoff or the animated series that was cancelled at some point. You know, I think there's probably ideas.

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And I'm excited to see what happens next. And I can't really predict what the film could be because Austin Powers was a response to James Bond. Like, it's a pastish- Yeah, to the 90s James Bond too. Yeah, it was a response to the 90s James Bond of Pierce Brosnan. Yeah, absolutely.

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We haven't even had a James Bond movie for six years, four, five, six years. So, what will he be playing with is what I'm excited and I'll be surprised by, you know? Yeah, well, what are the current spy things that have been floating around? There's like a Jack Reacher series. There's Slow Horses. Yes.

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There's maybe a little more spy TV at the moment. A Slow Horses style Apple show would be pretty... Something like that would be fun. With Austin as an aging spy having to deal with a bunch of young new horny recruits. If he's exposition kind of, you know, he's a bit more of the Basil exposition. Is Michael York still alive?

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I don't even know. Should I look that up? Yeah, of course. Let's break some news on the podcast. I might be breaking news that Michael York has... Oh, God. Okay. Oh, okay. It brings me no joy to report to all the listeners here today in the Micrach Republic that Michael York, OBE, was born on the 27th of March, 1942. Okay. Okay.

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Dash continued. He's alive. He's still with us. Yeah, he's still alive. Oh, okay. He's still with us. Is he still working? People also ask, what happened to actor Michael York?

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He lives quietly in Minnesota. Must be nice. Wow. Good for him. Now 84 years old, he relocated there to be near the Mayo Clinic. He loves mayonnaise. Sounds delicious. Moved there to be closer to Paisley Park. Wow, yeah. Big treats fan. After revealing his battle with a rare and life-threatening blood disorder called amyloidosis. Oh, wow. And Mayo's the only cure. Well, it looks like I would be catching that.

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So there's a potential future here that would be interesting to explore. In the meantime, you know, like, you know, whether or not Austin 4 comes out, we have got Shrek 5 coming out soon. Shrek 5 is coming out soon. Zendaya. Zendaya is in Shrek 5. She's Shrek's daughter. Yeah, dude.

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It's exciting. Turns out if you put Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz in two teleportation devices and send them into a place, Zendaya is what comes in. Yeah. That's awesome. So, what do you think, man? What's happening here now that we're back in the Mike Check Republic? I mean, do you feel like we should stick around? I think that we have a duty to stick around. I think it's not just like, oh, should we do this?

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Yes, there is some nostalgia for us to come back now and do something like this. For both us and hopefully for the residents here at the Mike Checker Public, the horny babies of the Mike Checker Public. Of course. But I think that there is a responsibility for us as Mike's greatest heralds. Yeah, Mike's tykes. Mike's tykes. To be out there spreading the good word, the good cheer for Mike. So, we're here. We drink beer. We drink beer.

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And we're ready to talk a bit more about Mike. Is that what's going to happen? I think that's it. I think the hats are on. All right. The hats are back on. The hats are on. The Mike check hats are back on. The limited edition Austin Powers, the Spy Who Shagged Me vintage hats that I bought at the start of the podcast 10 years ago. Yeah. I think they cost me $90 each from memory.

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I think they did cost quite a lot of money. Including shipping. Including shipping from America. But I think they would be worth a lot more now. Definitely. Especially now that all their sweat's in the brim of those things. Maybe you could clone me out of this thing, I reckon. Do you think... Because we also have a secondary set of hats. Backup hats. We've got the black hats. And these hats are black. They're black.

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Same logo, different color way, black fabric all around. Do you think because we're a little older, we're a little wiser? And because technically this is- A redux. A redux, a reboot, you know? The black hat edition. Do you think maybe we should switch over to the black hats?

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I think so, because I've always thought of these black hats, because we got given them by my lovely partner who gave us these hats years and years ago. I thought of these hats as, because they are black as well, I did think of them as like widow's caps. This is from our long mourning period where nothing was happening in the Mike Czech Republic. And now I wear this new black hat as a way to reclaim that.

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We are out of the darkness. That's true. And we are out there in the world. We're owning the darkness. We're owning the darkness. That's a better way for us to put the new hats on. Should we put them on? Let's put them on. All right. I'm taking the yellow hat off now, placing it down in front of me, and I'm picking up my black hat.

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We're now wearing the black hats. Oh, my word. We haven't resized them, so. No. Okay. My black hat is now on. The black hat is now on. The cats in the hat are black. The cats are back in the hats and they're black this time.

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And I think that, you know, I would say we're back, but this is like a little, I would say a nostalgia tour of sorts. Sure. We're dipping back into it. It's a Verizon commercial. It's a Verizon commercial. We're coming back, but we're a little bit older, a little bit wiser. We've got hair in some really magnificent places now. The nutsack. The nutsack and the top of our head. Neither of us have gone bald. Yeah. Yeah, that's pretty amazing. We've retained our hair. We've beaten the odds, I'd say.

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Yeah, definitely We both have retained our hair We probably look better than we did back then as well Yeah, probably So that's awesome So we're back We're back And I think that we're going to do some episodes I think so too Maybe not every single week We'll see Oh, you want to do everything I want to do it every day Daily Monday It's crazy Especially if we just keep the episodes like an hour plus

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Bailey Mike is back baby well here's what I think we should do I think we should pick up where we left off there are a few movies we haven't done the last thing that we I mean we did the Pentavrit on the Total Reboot feed but I think it would be nice if we picked up from the last film credit where we left things out a movie I've seen a movie you have not seen which is the film Bohemian Rhapsody

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Yeah, Bo Rap, I like to call it. I think we should pick up from there. We should go all the way through to his most recent credits. I don't know how many episodes that will be, but when we're done with that, we'll see how we're feeling. And if we feel like we want to go back to the start to reappraise 10 years later, maybe it would be appropriate to do that. And then that will give us a full year up to Shrek 5 coming in. Yeah.

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And then probably another six years before Austin 4 comes out. Yeah, yeah. We should do some speculation about what Austin 4 could be too. Yeah, definitely. Or who we would cast. I would ID for two characters. Okay. Are you going to save it for a speculation podcast? Well, I think I know that you can probably guess the two actors that should play those characters. Uh-huh. And they have worked together as a duo quite a lot. Okay. Okay.

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You and I, it's who I'm suggesting. Oh, my word. I would love to be in Austin. Oh, my good Lord. Maybe we should say this. I would love to get Mike on the pod. I've interviewed some of the biggest people in the world now. Yeah. I went to LA this year to do a 10-minute interview with Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi. Yeah. I've never said this even out loud, let alone...

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I recorded so I I did a 10-minute interview with Margot Robbie and Jacob I went to LA to do it and 10 minutes I had longer than anybody else had that day so everyone else is getting three minutes I mean 10 minutes with them and so we get pretty comfortable and like I think they enjoy the change of pace that I'm doing an interview

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And I had a full extra minute left because I didn't think I would get that long. And I had full extra minute left. I didn't know what to do. And I got soaked. My brain went, ask Margot Robbie about working with Mike Myers on Amsterdam. Oh, wow. And Terminal. Wow. I didn't do it.

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Yeah, damn. Because I was like, that's... I don't think... I think that, like, everything went so well that to take a risk like that... Big swing. It would be a huge swing to just be like... Swing. Margot... I've got one extra minute left. Oh, by the way, I might have a podcast...

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What was it like to work with him? I just, I thought about it. It went through my head. Is that one of your biggest regrets in life? No, because I think it would have been bad had I done that. And I think that there could be, now there's inroads in for us to maybe go to get Mike somehow.

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And we know Mike's out there. He's feeling himself. He's on Trevor Noah's pod. God. Yeah, we don't have the same pull as Trevor Noah's pod. He's doing a podcast with the most popular thing in the world. And we're doing a podcast about Mike Myers. But I think that I would dream to get Mike for three-hour interviews. I think we could get him. A three-hour. I will agree to slightly less time. Yeah, I would agree to as low as, say, like 10 minutes.

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Oh, God, don't... No, I'm saying I'm just going to go high. Three hours. Okay. Bargaining tactic, though. Yeah, willing to come down to an hour. I won't say that. Yeah, but keep that in. Keep that in. That's where I could go to. I'm excited. I'm really excited. I have tears at the corners of my eye just thinking about that. I almost asked Margot Robbie about Mike Myers. But I think we could get Mike Myers. I think that's my main goal. My main goal is to get Mike Myers. Secondary goal, get in the movie.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely. Love to get in the movie. Or interview J-Rex. Even just being a henchman, like being one of Dr. Evil's henchmen. If we, and we just like, we're in the chairs and we just fall back and hear us scream. Love that. I'm like, oh God, that hurts me. Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow. Ouch. I'm being attacked by a shark with freaking laser beams on his head. Oh my God. Well, look, it's good to be back in the Mike Check Republic, the MCR.

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And I'm excited to stay a little while and get comfy. Yeah. You know, kick off my beetle boots and just relax, really. Buongiorno, boys. That means goodbye as well. I think that's it. Relax. We're going to release soon an episode about Bohemian Rhapsody. We're going to have to do Boh rap. You've seen it. I've seen it. I have not seen it. I saw it six years ago when we were still doing the podcast.

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Yeah, I have a feeling that I said we should just do it. And then I was like, I don't want to watch this movie. I don't want to watch it. But he's back. I mean, before we wrap up, I'll just say another little tenterhook thing out there for people. There was a first feeling of maybe we're back was I watched Michael, the Michael Jackson movie. Oh, I thought you were talking about the John Travolta film. I watched that too. Actually, we're in the same- Back to back. Pretty close to it. Really good double feature. Yeah.

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I did watch them pretty close together in a weird way. But Mike Myers is in it and he just pops up in Michael. I had no idea. What? He's in Michael. And I texted you from the cinema as soon as the movie had to go, Mike Myers is in Michael. And I couldn't believe it. It was a thing of seeing his face pop up in some makeup as a character. And I was just going like, surely not. Like my brain, it was like to see someone you know and recognize so well. It's like, but surely not.

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And it was him. Can I ask you a question? Was he playing a British person? American. New Yorker. Rare. Yeah. Very rare for him to play an American. More closer to Coffee Talk voice. Wow. Yeah, closer to Coffee Talk. Unfortunately, we'll have to talk about Michael. So begins the problematic era of Mic Check. We're talking about three movies attached to problematic people. Well, thank God we're wearing these black hats. Yeah. Because things are about to get a little dark.

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It's a dark era right now. But it is an era that I look forward to talking about because we haven't done it before. It is Mike as a character actor, which I think is on the journey to being the elder statesman he currently now is. And I think it's very important to talk about character actors. Of course. So, I think that is a way to get there. Of course. So, we've been talking about Borap, Amsterdam, Michael.

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Yep, not the John Travolta film. Maybe we do an episode on that too, because I did just watch it. It'd be great to get something out of it.

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And probably his SNL stuff. And some of his SNL stuff. They're going to have to do a bit of that. A Verizon commercial or something. Yeah, a few other bits and pieces. Maybe the Eddie Murphy speech. Maybe just a full episode dedicated to some of those Instagram posts. Go through all the comments we replied, everyone. But my check, for lack of a better word, is back. It's back, baby. And back is good. Yeah. For lack of a better word. To quote Wall Street in a kind of off way. The cats in the hats are back. The cats in the hats and they're back.

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Wow, I don't know how to end these podcasts, but you've got a show. We both got shows at Comedy Republic. Maybe we should plug those. Yeah, sure. What's the date of your show? July 18th, so very soon. July 18th. At Comedy Republic, it is my debut stand-up show called VHS. I've seen it. It's very funny. And there's even a little Mike Myers references in them. And then Mike Myers reference on the gala. I don't know if anyone noticed it, but I did do a little nod to Mike. It's like, maybe Mike will see this. I noticed your sleeves were really long, and I assumed that was it.

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I had really long frilled sleeves. My show is July 18th at Comedy Republic in Melbourne. You've got one August 1st. August 1st. It's kind of a best-of show, but also kind of a new stuff show as well. It's just me doing what I feel like doing. Yeah, awesome. Which is fun. And that's at Comedy Republic. You can buy tickets in the show notes. Link in the show notes. Oh, also the week after I'm doing a show in Sydney. Yeah. The Saturday following that. What's that? The 8th. And then the 13th, I'm doing one in Brisbane.

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And I think those are the only solo live shows I'm doing this year. So I may as well plug them. Come and see them. Plug them away. Yeah, it'll be fun. The boys are back with the mics in hand and they are performing on stages. It is like a time travel actually right now. This is-

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But, you know, we're different places. I did suggest we break into your old home to try and recapture the magic, but I think the magic has been on us the whole time. Of course. It was always here. Also, it helps that we have so much Austin Powers merchandise sitting in front of us right now. Yeah, we will post this on our Instagrams, us surrounded by a lot of Austin Powers merchandise.

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Thank you to a friend of the show, friend of the show, friend of ours. He's our friend. Yeah. Blake Howard from the One Hit Minute Productions podcast. He had a friend who was a true Mike Myers fan, a member of the Mike Czech Republic. He did fall and he did go to Mike Heaven. Yeah. Literally, his friend died. I don't know how to say that tactfully. We're in the style of this show.

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His friend passed away. Yeah. And then he had a lot of- He was a movie merchandise collector. He had a lot of Austin Powers merchandise. It was bequeathed to you. It was bequeathed to us. Blake Howard said, I know a home where this will- I know a place where this won't just go to a house. Yeah. You will find a home. Yeah. In Alexei's closet where he closes the door and doesn't look at them every day. But they are there. They are out now. They are out.

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We will post a photo on Instagram. My favorite is special nine-inch edition of Fat Man because they can't pull Bastard on the toy cover. Can I ask you a question? Nine inches, is that big or...? Whip it out and have a look. But we are back, baby. Until next time, have a Mike life. It's Mike Jack. It's Mike Jack. The podcast that Mike buys. Woo-hoo.