Episode #92
Episode 87: Wired, the Cursed John Belushi Biopic That’s Secretly About Bob Woodward!
Wired is one of the worst things we’ve ever seen, even here in the year of our lord 2026, where everything is kind of awful. And yet it persists with a righteous confidence that it has done nothing to deserve. Wired answers the question, what if a biopic both disdains its subject and tells its subject’s story through the perspective of one of America's most preachily moralizing, self-righteous boomers, who pretty much relies on that one time he was awesome to justify all of his subsequent life choices? And isn’t that a question we’ve all asked? John Belushi takes the world’s saddest journey through his life, presented here as a parade of regrettable humiliations and IP-skirting recreations of his work, in a taxi driven by Ray Sharkey, an actor incapable of doing an inoffensive Spanish accent (or of admitting to vulnerable partners that he had a deadly virus). While all of this is happening, we watch in suspense as Scoop Bob Woodward tries to get the story about John’s drug addiction. It’s an unfun fever dream that tries really hard to be interesting and fails in a way that almost destroys your will to live. We welcome back comedian and filmmaker Liam McEnaney, who helps us parse through this movie that absolutely has no business existing. https://heyitsliam.com/ Sources used in the episode include… Wired, by Bob Woodward. Live From New York: The Complete, Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live as Told by Its Stars, Writers, and Guests, by Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller. Various interviews with Michael Chiklis et al that we found on the internet, but that Rena is unable to track down in a hurry befroe running to to the eye doctor almost four months after recording this thing, when we just want to get new content up again at long last. Pre-order Sara’s new book, Dark Messiah, here! https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dark-messiah-sara-z-carson/1149827886 Spoiler Warning: We spoil everything. And we enjoy it. Our theme music is by Ben Patch: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5BB01QpPE7HBGacGAlullu?si=gp_6jbvsThWXg_sSLVcv6Q Follow us! Instagram: @biopicapodcaststory Bluesky: @biopic-podcast.bsky.social Threads: @biopicapodcaststory Website: https://biopicapodcaststory.podbean.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/biopicapodcaststory Contact us: biopiclistenermailbag@gmail.com
