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Halloween Michael Myers Discussion for October 25th, 2024 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: So with the beat, Gina, we learned that on this
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  day in nineteen seventy eighty eight, the movie Halloween was released. Yes,
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  on many lists as one of the best Halloween movies
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  of all time. Yes, but I saw this yesterday. Of course,
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  people on the internet get wound up about very specific things.
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  Speaker 2: And apparently the necessarily as a rule.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently there's a Reddit thread where people like to debate
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  Michael Myers. So, if you haven't seen Halloween, or if
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  you've forgotten spoiler alert from the seventies. Yeah, he's six
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  years old and he kills his sister six Yeah, okay,
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  little kid.
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  Speaker 2: I thought he was older. Why did he do that?
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's debated too. I think it's because she was
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  with her boyfriend and not taking him trig or treating.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I always thought it was.
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  Speaker 2: I have to confess, I don't think i've seen Halloween
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  in two really.
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  Speaker 1: So, so, at six years old, he is incarcerated or
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  put in an institution. Okay, fast forward fifteen years later,
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  he's being driven to like a court case or something
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  with his doctor, and somehow he is able to steal
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  the car and drive away.
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  Speaker 3: Oh I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Katie, go ahead.
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  Speaker 4: So he goes to a mental asylum as a child.
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  He gets put there for the sixteen years. All of
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  a sudden, when doctor Loomis and the nurse drive in
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  to deal with Michael at that age, all of the
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  mental patients are outside. Oh, they're wandering around and they
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  don't understand why. And then they almost hit one of
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  the patients swerving the car, stopping the car.
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  Speaker 3: Michael jumps on top of the car, jumps on top
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  of the jumps on top of the car, smashes the windows.
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  Speaker 2: Is he responsible for the reason that all the patients
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  are wandering around?
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  Speaker 4: You can assume that, Yes, there's no actual like okay
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  for sure thing, but yes you can assume that.
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  Speaker 5: Or they were free range but so tastier that way.
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  Speaker 1: But he steals the car and drives away. So people
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  are like, okay, he was put in there when he
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  was six years old, so he didn't know how to
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  drive a car before. How does he know how to
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  drive a car?
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  Speaker 2: Well, they probably have. You know, what do they call it?
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  You know things where you learn to do things to
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  cope with life if you ever get out, you know.
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  Speaker 1: A simulator.
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  Speaker 3: It's never answered it's never answered.
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  Speaker 5: Well, maybe he has access to television in the asylum
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  and he's seen an episode of Chips where.
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  Speaker 3: So does it really matter?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, does it really matter?
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  Speaker 3: Do people?
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  Speaker 2: Do people go as they seem drive off in the car,
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  they go, well, how do you know how to drive car?
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  This movie is just totally unrealistic.
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  Speaker 3: It's not the first time I've heard this.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, the fact that he can die, you're okay with that. Yeah,
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  I guess that's the fact that he can drive, that's
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  a problem.
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  Speaker 1: But you've seen this somewhere else.
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  Speaker 5: Well, if you go to Guardians of the Galaxy volume three,
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  you remember Peter Quill was kidnapped and taken away at
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  the age of like nine or ten or eleven, whatever
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  it was. But when they come back to an earth
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  like area where there are cars, earth like cars, he's
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  able to drive it. Not great, but he's able to
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  drive it because it's a very simple thing.
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  Speaker 2: Are you saying that Peter Quill is actually Michael Meyer.
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  That's a good theory. It's you put it in D
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  for drive and go. I mean, so it's not that
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  hard figure out.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, if it was a stick shift, then then shift
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  is anti theft now, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, do people bring this up because it ruins
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  the movie for them somehow?
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  Speaker 4: No. I think it's just the unanswered questions that the
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  original Halloween leaves because by.
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  Speaker 2: The way, again I haven't seen it forever. Where he
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  gets to the car and drives away. Where's he go
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  like to get an ice creamer?
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  Speaker 4: So he goes back to Haddenfield so the met Yeah,
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  that's the hadden Field Haddenfield, Illinois. He goes, he pulls
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  off the side of the road, I assume because he
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  ran out of gas out of the institute's car, steals
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  a truck and a.
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  Speaker 3: Jumpsuit from a guy. A truck, well, it kills the guy,
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  steals a jumpsuit, and that's.
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  Speaker 2: Where that's where he gets that kind of a truck.
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  Speaker 3: It's like an old red it's not a semi or
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  an old school red pickup truck.
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  Speaker 2: Probably with a stick shift. So there you go.
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  Speaker 3: Probably, But the original one leaves a lot of unanswered
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  questions because it doesn't matter, well most of it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's here's here's a here's a very simple blanket answer,
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  very simple by the premise, by the kind of answer
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  serial killer ingenuity. When you're determined you can do anything.
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  Speaker 3: You know, that's fair.
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  Speaker 4: You know that.
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  Speaker 2: I had Trent Harris local film directors say to me
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  one time when he was directing me in a movie,
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  and you know, we'd shoot scenes and they sometimes they'd
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  be weeks apart, and I'd say, Trent, I'm not sure
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  I was wearing this shirt the same should Should I
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  be wearing a different shirt, you know than the last
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  when we're taking this And he said, Bill, if people
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  are worried about what damn shirt you're wearing, we're just
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  not doing a very good job with our movies.
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  Speaker 4: Consistency thing is a thing, though, and my dad and
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  I used to do this thing where we watched movies
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  and we would pull out the inconsistent pieces a lot.
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  Speaker 5: So let's say, oh, now, Jay in West Jordan says,
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  the doctor says that Michael is a genius in one
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  of the movies, so maybe that's why that's true.
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  Speaker 3: He does say that he is very highly intelligent.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't say evil genius.
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  Speaker 4: But also doesn't speak, doesn't say a word things like that.
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  Speaker 5: So now back to the when you're determined you can
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  do anything comment. You imagine Michael Meyer sitting in front
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  of the mirror like Stuart Smally saying you're strong enough,
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  your killer enough, everyone is scared of you.
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  Speaker 4: I would assume he says it in his head because
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  he actually is like very well, he doesn't.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not speaking.
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't speak.
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  Speaker 3: Anyways. Thanks.
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  Speaker 5: I enjoyed Halloween, although I've been thinking about it and
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  I'm thinking that Texas Chainsaw might be It's better the.
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  Speaker 4: Good.
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  Speaker 1: You can see it on the big screen tonight at
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  Suli Film Society.
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  Speaker 5: And you don't have a Michael.
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  Speaker 3: Meyer or leather Face is going to be added. I
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  just added Chucky.
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  Speaker 5: I've got You've got all the biggie.
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  Speaker 4: Chucky was added just on the back arm. If you
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  guys want to see some one there. It's a little
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  weird angle.
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  Speaker 3: I've got.
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  Speaker 4: So I've got ghost Face, I've got Chucky, I have Freddy,
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  which is signed.
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  Speaker 3: Signed by by Robert England.
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  Speaker 4: And then I have Michael in a in his kitchen
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  knife on the back of my arm.
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  Speaker 3: Leather Face is going to be added.
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  Speaker 2: Along with where will leather Face go or.
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  Speaker 4: We're figuring that one out, but he's probably going to go.
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  Speaker 3: That's the worst part. My arms are kind of small
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  and I don't and you.
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  Speaker 5: Don't want to put it on the back because Bill
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  is his first tattoo was on his back, and he's
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  he counsels everyone, do not put a tattoo on your back.
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  Speaker 2: You can't see it.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I got my spinal piece done, so I want
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  that to be my right before my wedding. I got
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  that big spinal piece to and so I want that
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  to be the highlight of my back. So I don't
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  think I'm going to put too much more exactly, we'll
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  do it. We'll just put leather face.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Bubba, you know.
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  Speaker 5: I think I may watch the original again this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: It's really good.
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  Speaker 4: AMC's Fearfest is going on, and they've been showing both
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  Halloween and all of the leather faces.
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  Speaker 5: I do want to watch Alien Romulus tonight, though, I do.
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  Speaker 2: Want to watch.
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  Speaker 3: We'll report back, all right, thanks, thank you?
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  Speaker 1: All right, there we go, okay, Hm