Season 3 Episode 17: The Butterfly Effect

The boys watch and discuss the second half of the first Lethal Weapon movie. Are the gang getting new real girlfriends? Plus, more talk about AMP (is Johnny Depp back in the fold?). Would Yoshi make Lethal Weapon better?

## Episode Summary

Nate is feeling under the weather and talks about his wife a lot (shout-out Charlotte), Ducks tries to make Drew go Blair Witch and Tom is a Mama's boy! Are you rockin' with the elf?

Brie brought a yoghurt delivery over to Nates mansion, after it was mistakenly delivered to her place. Drew must not have cancelled his recurring order when Brew ended. Tensions are rising on the set of AMP, but as we've learned from Lethal weapon, this is just an ingredient in good TV! Tom Claims the TND-Truce is still active, but this episode tests the limits of said truce. Nate quits ClayneCast again, and some very high level philosophical dialectics about existence are debated. Please pray for all the hosts and especially Nate (but no Butterfly effect shit!).

### Father-Son-Updates

T's dietary restrictions only allow him to eat grass. Drew's boy eats everything else. He likes to watch Franklin on his Nintendo Switch. The only music Nates boy listens to is Zuby.

### Watch-a-long

Join the Patreon and watch the second half of the first lethal weapon movie, it's "MST3K but worse and without the jokes"!

### Lethal Weapon 1 second half recap

A great movie, perfect even.

Host Rating of the second half of the movie
 Drew
 Nate

**Plot summary:** (continued from last week)

...Riggs and Murtaugh attempt to question her pimp, but are assaulted after finding drugs on the premises, forcing Riggs to kill the pimp to save Murtaugh's life. Their final lead is Dixie, a prostitute who witnessed Amanda's death, and whom the pair believe may have poisoned her. Dixie's home explodes as they arrive and her corpse is later recovered. Riggs locates components of a mercury switch explosive among the debris, a specialty explosive he recalls being used by Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) mercenaries in Vietnam. The suspect is detailed by neighborhood children, who noticed he had an elite special forces tattoo similar to Riggs's.

Suspecting Hunsaker is withholding information, Riggs and Murtaugh visit him during Amanda's funeral. He reveals that during the Vietnam War he worked for "Shadow Company", a defunct CIA paramilitary unit tasked with destabilizing the local heroin trade. Following the war, the ex-CIA agents, mercenaries, and soldiers involved reformed Shadow Company as a criminal organization and began shipping large quantities of heroin from Asia to the United States, under the leadership of retired General Peter McAllister and his right-hand man Mr. Joshua. Hunsaker's role as a banker allowed him to make the illicit funds seem legitimate. He initially called Murtaugh to confess and turn witness against Shadow Company, and McAllister had Amanda killed in retaliation. Joshua arrives in a helicopter and kills Hunsaker before escaping. He later attempts to kill Riggs in a drive-by shooting, but the latter is saved by his bulletproof vest; Riggs's death is faked to give the pair an advantage.

Concerned Murtaugh knows too much, Shadow Company kidnaps his daughter Rianne and forces Murtaugh to meet them at El Mirage Lake. Riggs provides sniper support to help Murtaugh and Rianne escape, but all three are captured and recovered to a nightclub basement, a Shadow Company front. Riggs and Murtaugh are tortured for information until Riggs escapes, kills several Shadow Company members, and frees Murtaugh and Rianne. Although Joshua escapes, Murtaugh kills McAllister. Deducing Joshua will seek revenge at Murtaugh's home, Riggs and Murtaugh ambush him. Riggs defeats Joshua in a battle, but chooses not to kill him. Police officers take Joshua into custody, but he breaks free, takes an officer's gun, and attempts to shoot Riggs and Murtaugh; the pair return fire and kill Joshua.

A short time later, after visiting his wife's grave, Riggs shares a Christmas Day meal with Murtaugh and his family. Riggs gifts Murtaugh a hollow-point bullet he has been saving to commit suicide, as he no longer needs it.

source: Wikipedia

## Notable Quotes

### Mister Tom

* "You guys can't even remember what you had for breakfast!"
* "That's a really good idea, Drew. That's a great Idea, Drew!"

### Mister Drew

* "I gave up fucking you guys for lent."
* "I'm not reeing."
* "I have a fever for Cowbell! Right?"
* "Life's great, except Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles went woke."

### Mister Nate

* "I was elaborately joking."
* "I was riding high. I felt like when we were watching this movie, we were transcending to another plane of existence, because we were literally just *watching*."
* "It might be verbatim what I'm asking, but it's not what I'm asking."

## The Leftist Angle

The leftist thing to do is order something on Amazon and then cancel it.

## CCEUpdates/AMPDates

Mark from H&R was a ClayneCast fan who told OJ the news about his vacation. He's never been seen or heard from since. If you would like to take his place please DM your resumé to @Tom\_on\_here on twitter!

Ozzy tried to eat Grogu due to his likeness with a bat.

JOC & Lizzo are further established as GOATs.

## Get to know your host(s)

Nate has an amazing relationship with everyone in his house. Not so much anyone outside.

If Tom was killed he would come back as a ghost and haunt the other two.

Nate gets sick every time he has to go to the studio. Please understand this when his doctors force him to postpone your meeting for health reasons.

## Trivia

In chaos theory, the **butterfly effect** is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state. Duh.

Cheese is a brown food, even if it looks orange in certain lighting.

John Stamos divorced Rebecca Romijn because she was a wokie who couldn't stop reeeeeing.

Melatonin is the sleepy hormone, Serotonin is the happy hormone.

## Freaky Figures

Tom said Zuby 17 times.

This episode is the **first time ever** someone made a joke of warts on your hog about Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (woke).

## Clayne ForeCasting

Next week we will find out which appointment Nate cancelled and which one he went to!