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Tucker and Dale vs. Evil: The Hillbilly Horror Comedy Classic - Xenomania 81 · Xenomania

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Jon: This week on Xenomania, when two hillbillies purchase a secluded cabin,
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it seems like the perfect vacation spot.
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Sure, the cabin needs some work and has newspaper clippings detailing
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a past massacre, but it's theirs, at least until a group of college
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students show up with preconceived notions and fear of hillbillies.
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The conflict between the two groups grows in increasingly chaotic and humorous ways.
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Will the lovable bumpkins overcome the college kids?
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Plus, the return of the Blind Rank, which will surely leave at least one of
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my co-hosts disappointed by his choices.
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This is Tucker & Dale vs.
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Evil.
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This is Xenomania
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Kearns: Absolute clown.
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Happy Fourth of July, everybody.
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Happy Fourth of July.
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Near miss on the beginning of this one.
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Jon: Which is that, that 4th of July wish will be a little late.
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We are currently July 3rd here.
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Ryan: Yeah,
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Kearns: Yes
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Jon: But you won't hear the…
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Ryan: John?
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Jon: It's Return of the Living Dead day, guys
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Kearns: That's when you're listening to this likely.
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Jon: Yeah.
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Kearns: Dead
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Jon: No, today, July 3rd, is Return of the Living Dead Day.
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Kearns: is
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Jon: Yep, yep.
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Ryan: You know
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Jon: The-
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Ryan: It's party time
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Jon: Here it is
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Ryan: It's party time
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Jon: Yeah, that's ca- that's on our calendar this year.
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I can't wait.
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I cannot wait
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Ryan: We got a lot of bangers this year.
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We got Return of the Living Dead, we got Halloween, we got The Thing, we
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got- We're gonna be covering Obsession
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Jon: Mm-hmm.
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Ryan: That one
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Kearns: We forgot about upstairs.
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Yeah, that looks good
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Ryan: body horror?
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You think Bring Her Back is bad?
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Wait for this ride.
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Kearns: Obsessions body horror?
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Ryan: this is gonna take the cake from what I've seen from clips already.
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It does.
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Jon: Find out
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Kearns: it's worse.
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No chance it's worse
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Ryan: Oh, just imagine a brick.
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That's all I'm gonna say.
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Kearns: Okay.
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have no idea where to go with that in my head.
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But anyway, for this one we're doing Tucker and Dale Versus Evil.
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Or is it Dale
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Jon: buddy.
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Tucker and Dale
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Kearns: it around.
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Ryan: Tucker and Dale, man.
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Kearns: and I had both not seen this movie, up until, you know,
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watching it for the episode, and we both enjoyed it thoroughly
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Ryan: a m- you know, it, it's a hidden gem I feel.
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Came out in 2010.
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You know, simple comedy horror that follows an interesting
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trope the hillbillies in the boonies are the villains, but
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Jon: Mm-hmm.
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Ryan: reversed when they're actually the good guys, and the college kids are just,
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they're, they're not thinking straight
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Jon: Yeah, I mean, really at the end of the day, it's only one of
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the college kids that's a villain.
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The rest of them are just sort of dopey.
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Ryan: Chad
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Jon: Easily misled Chad
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Kearns: Which is usually the case.
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this is the first movie I've seen in a long time that reminded
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me of Cabin in the Woods.
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It had that silly vibe to it.
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It was way toned down, and there's nothing supernatural in this,
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Jon: Mm-hmm.
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Kearns: it was super-duper, like, don't know, very similar
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Ryan: Yes and no, because I feel that Cabin in the Woods is a horror film.
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That's what it is.
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It's not… Like, you have little, like, comedic elements in it to kinda ease
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the tension, but it goes for that '80s horror vibe, while with Tucker and Dale is
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more of that comedy vibe of, like, Young Frankenstein or, like, Dracula: Dead and
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Loving It with a little more gore to it.
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And it's not really like that sp- uh, you can
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Jon: It's
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Ryan: spoof too, like a satire
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Jon: It's a, satire of the hillbilly horror.
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I don't know, I don't think it's quite like the slapstick level of a Dracula Dead
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and Loving It or a Young Frankenstein.
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It's, more like situational and it's like in the… It's, it, the
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funniest parts are Tucker and Dale and the way they perceive things
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Kearns: Yes.
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Ryan: Yes
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Kearns: I agree.
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That's basically the, entire movie is how they try to rationalize what's
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happening, always with good intentions.
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Jon: Mm-hmm.
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Kearns: always going horribly wrong.
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Jon: Mm-hmm.
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Kearns: great
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Ryan: Poor kid tripped and fell into the wood chipper.
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Kearns: Yeah, that Fargo vibes right there.
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That was
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Jon: Yep.
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Yep, like,
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Ryan: y-
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Jon: right from the start, everything about them is misunderstood by the
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college kids, and, you know, it's guided by Chad, who's there for other reasons.
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But I mean, they're doing it on their own too.
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You know, right from the beginning, they pass Tucker and Dale on the, on the
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highway, and, you know, you get that, the look between them with, like, this
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sorta, like, maybe slow-witted hillbillies looking at the car full of college kids,
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and they're at the same gas station.
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And, you know, Dale has a crush, and he goes to try to talk to them, and he brings
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the fricking scythe with him to try to… And then he's just like… He, essentially
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gives them the, "Hey, pretty girl." You know, and they… You know… Yeah.
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Kearns: Or whatever he said.
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Or going camping, I think he
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Jon: Yeah
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Ryan: it doesn't help that he's smiling and laughing
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Jon: Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Ryan: advice
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Jon: Yeah
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Kearns: if you wanna point out, that is exactly what happens in Apex, by the way.
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It happens in Australia, but still, they walk into the convenience store,
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there's a couple of locals that harass Charlize Theron, and our, our
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villain actually white knights it a bit in the store, but it's, like,
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basically the same scene, but done
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Jon: Mm-hmm.
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Kearns: in Apex.
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Jon: Mm-hmm.
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Kearns: So that is-- It's so-- It's a perfect satire.
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They just nail it throughout the movie, and it's funny.
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Jon: Yeah
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Kearns: it funny
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Jon: Yeah, they, I mean, they do so many good things with this movie.
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so it's Eli Craig who's, you know, his return to our podcast 'cause he
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directed Clown in a Cornfield, which he did almost a year ago already now.
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Kearns: Hmm.
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Jon: You should go, you go back and listen to that one too
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Ryan: He's
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Kearns: Do it
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Ryan: gap with his films, uh, we were talking before the podcast.
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Like, Tucker & Dale came out in 2010.
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He did a film called Little Evil, which came out in 2017.
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Clown in a
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Jon: Mm-hmm.
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Ryan: 2025.
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His new one, which is waiting to be announced, uh, for a year or date
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to come out is White Elephant, which is a Christmas-themed horror film.
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But it's interesting that he has these gaps,
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Jon: Mm-hmm.
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Ryan: he hits it, I feel like, whatever horror, uh, genre he's going with
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or horror subgenre he's going with.
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Like, he hits it with Tucker & Dale.
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He hit it with Clown in a Cornfield.
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Little Evil I haven't seen yet, but he probably hit it out of
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the ballpark too with that.
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Jon: he paces things well.
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You know, he, finds people who do really, really nice effects work.
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And, you know, it's, he's found a, a little niche in there
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Kearns: Wonder what he's gonna do next
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Jon: I mean, sounds like the white elephant thing.
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I don't know what, I don't know anything about that.
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Yeah.
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I mean, it might be a while
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Kearns: um, for those listening that don't know, White Elephant, to
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my understanding, is a game played often around the holidays where you
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do, like, certain gift giving in a
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Jon: Mm-hmm.
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Kearns: way
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Jon: Mm-hmm.
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Yeah, yeah, and I never understand the group that I'm doing them
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with, whether they're, like, doing serious gifts or gag gifts.
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So the one, the one I wa- the one I was in last year was apparently way more
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serious than I understood it to be, and, um, I contributed a shart emergency kit
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Ryan: To which the person who received it tried to give it back and trade, but we
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Jon: Mm-hmm.
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Ryan: they were not a part of it.
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Jon: No.
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Ryan: skipped it and they've
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Jon: Yeah, you weren't there in time
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Ryan: Yep.
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Rules are rules
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Kearns: Rules is rules.
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Jon: Rules are rules.
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Kearns: with the shart kit.
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Jon: Mm-hmm.
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Kearns: wait to hear who did it
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Ryan: oh, I, I'm the one who picked it, helped pick it for,
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for them, which was even funnier
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Kearns: Oh, boy.
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Jon: Yeah.
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Oh
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Kearns: so, um, Tucker and Dale, I mean, you begin with them
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going to their summer cabin.
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Jon: Mm-hmm.
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Kearns: have a, a holiday house, which is hilarious because it's all run-down, cabin
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that used to be used by a serial killer.
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Jon: Yep.
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Yep, it's the, first time you, get a sense that there's something evil
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that's not really Tucker and Dale
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Kearns: Mm-hmm.
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Ryan: I just love the part when they're reading the news clippings
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Jon: Mm-hmm.
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Ryan: says all these horrible things.
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They're like, "Man, he is such a great collector of the news.
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Kearns: And they never circle back.
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never, she never notices them.
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Chad doesn't
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Jon: No, they…
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Kearns: them when he's in the house
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Jon: And, they never put it together really, Tucker and
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Dale even, who 100% see him.
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They're just, "Oh, look, he hung news clippings up." Like, not even
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like the recognition that these are about the Memorial Day massacre and
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Kearns: Right.
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It's bizarre.
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Well, they're, they're not dumb per
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Jon: Mm-hmm.
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Kearns: but they're not dumb.
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In fact, uh, Dale is incredibly good at trivia,
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Jon: Yeah.
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Kearns: which is a nod to a special diagnosis you can
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Jon: Mm-hmm.
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Kearns: they do mention it in the movie a little bit.
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little bit.
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Tucker's not nice about describing what that is.
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for the most part, he's not a dumb guy.
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He's just, like, naive
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Jon: Mm-hmm.
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Kearns: you know, a little bit less worldly
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Jon: Yeah.
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Kearns: characters
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Jon: Yeah, and
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Ryan: heart.
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That's what
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Jon: but…
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Kearns: either.
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When he carves the, uh, "We have your friend," he's got that all messed
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Jon: Uh-huh, uh-huh, which, I mean, again, completely escalating
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the paranoia without meaning to.
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It's all, everything they do that escalates the college kids'
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paranoia is well-intentioned.
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Allison falls off the rock and hits her head and is nearly drowning
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and they rescue her, but all the college kids see is them paddling
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away in a boat with their friend
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Ryan: Well, they accidentally initiate her falling off because Tucker's trying
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to be a little perv and Dale's like, "Yo, you, you can't do that." Which
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Kearns: You fucker
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Ryan: I just wanna give my flowers to, uh, Alan Tudyk, who plays Tucker.
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I'm a big Alan Tudyk fan since the days of Firefly.
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He plays Walsh.
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Um,
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Jon: Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm.
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Ryan: been Dr.
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Phosphorus recently in, uh, Creature Commandos.
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He's just a phenomenal, like,
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Kearns: He's so good
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Ryan: get his… Like, yeah, he doesn't get his flowers.
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He does a lot of special guest stuff too, and he's funny
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Jon: A lot of voice work.
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Like he's got, he's got that Star Wars money because he was KSO1 in Rogue One.
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He's got Lego money because he's doing voices for them.
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He's got Disney money.
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He's get- he's doing all right with the voice work.
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Like you may not recognize Alan Tudyk by face, but you know his voice
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Kearns: I mean, most people would recognize him by face too
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based on a lot that he's been in.
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I was hoping
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Jon: Mm-hmm.
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Yeah
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Kearns: Yep.
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That's, he's the alien.
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2021 to 2025 that it is canceled, unfortunately.
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So no.
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Jon: Yeah, probably.
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He's got Spider-Man money in here.
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Like, he's done
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Kearns: looking right now.
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"The Tick," bro.
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Jon: Yeah.
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Oh, man
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Kearns: a legend right there.
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"Newsreaders"?
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I, I might just have to watch "Newsreaders" now because
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Jon: That,
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Kearns: looks outstanding
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Jon: animated Tick series, holy cow, man
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Kearns: So good.
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Ryan: one?
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Kearns: Yeah
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Jon: I, I think, I, I don't think the original run though, right?
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He's in, like, a more recent one
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Kearns: yeah, 2016 to 2019.
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Jon: Yeah.
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Ryan: in the live action
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Jon: They're, they're one of, one of the live action ones,
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'cause there's been at least two.
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'Cause there's one that Amazon did, and there was one with, um,
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Patrick Warburton before that
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Ryan: yep
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Kearns: Peter Serafinowicz the Tick in that too.
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Talk about another guy with a golden voice
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Ryan: I'm such a fan of the Tick since the cartoon.
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The Patrick Warburton one real quick does a decent job
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Kearns: I think it's Danger Boat.
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Ryan: but the Amazon one really hits the spot with it.
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Gesundheit
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Kearns: Yeah, he's, he's a gem.
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Jon: Thanks
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Kearns: Dale, what- Dale's not in much
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Jon: He does a lot of TV stuff.
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Kearns: Okay.
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Jon: I forgot what it was.
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I, I,
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Kearns: in this
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Jon: yeah, I looked him up in,
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Ryan: hate us
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Jon: the other day.
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He's, he's been in a bunch of TV stuff, like a lot.
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Like, not like one or two episodes, but like star, co-star level.
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He was in, um, a Hulu show a while back.
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Ghost maybe?
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It was something with g- where he can see ghosts.
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Ghosted.
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It's something like that.
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It was pretty good.
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I, it, it had like two or three seasons I think that
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Ryan: He's, he's been acting since 1991
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Jon: Mm-hmm.
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I think he was in an episode of The X-Files, I wanna say, like as a kid.
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Ryan: Two of them.
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Kearns: Maybe
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Jon: Yeah
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Ryan: the Cockroaches and Quagmire
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Jon: Mm-hmm.
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Kearns: got the intel tonight, baby.
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Ryan: love the X-Files.
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Jon: Yeah.
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Oh yeah, me too
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Kearns: needs to believe.
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Ryan: Oh, I
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Kearns: He wants to believe
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Ryan: Go out in
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Jon: I like
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Ryan: you see those ships, or, um, planes, airplanes
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Kearns: If mid-'90s me could see where we are with USOs and UFOs
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and whatever they're calling
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Jon: UAPs
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Kearns: um, UAPs
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Ryan: You
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Kearns: as well, like, well, that's a UFO now, right?
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Jon: Yeah.
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Ryan: Yeah
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Kearns: aerial phenomenon.
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Jon: Something like that, yeah
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Kearns: I would be like, "Oh my God, man, life's gonna be so good,"
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and boy, would I have been wrong.
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Ryan: I got you a show that he was in, Reaper
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Kearns: Yeah.
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Jon: Yes, that's right.
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Ryan: He
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Jon: The Kevin Smith series, yeah.
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Yeah, I forgot about that
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Ryan: "I've seen this guy before." What was the… I forgot the main actor.
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He was, like, in, I think, Grounded For Life beforehand or something,
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Jon: Yeah
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Ryan: for Reaper.
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But Reaper was underrated.
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UPN.
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Jon: Yeah, it, I mean, what did that last, like a season and a half maybe?
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Did it even get to a second season?
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Ryan: it did
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Two, two seasons on, oh, CW, I'm sorry
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Kearns: Two seasons on CW
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Jon: Mm-hmm.
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Ryan: for 2007-9 where the whole CW was overrun by shows like Arrow and The Flash.
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Kearns: Mm-hmm.
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Ryan: is really good
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Jon: He was in one of the New Planet of the Apes movies.
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He's in, um, For All Mankind right now.
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That's on, is that on Apple, I think?
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Kearns: is.
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I believe it is.
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Jon: He-
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Ryan: It's
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Jon: So yeah, I mean, he, he works a lot.
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Ju- it's just he's more TV at this point
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Kearns: ones are, um, it is apple.
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It is the apple
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Ryan: Oh, he's in Zack and Mary Make a Porno
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Jon: Mm-hmm.
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He pops up, like he, he's one of those guys.
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He's, I think he's probably pretty easy to work with.
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I've- we've met him.
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He's real- really funny in person too
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Ryan: Nice dude.
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That, that helps
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Jon: Mm-hmm.
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Yeah, like
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Kearns: by the audience again
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Jon: Eiler Labine
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Kearns: Tyler Labine, everybody, is who we are talking
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Jon: I believe that's how I've always pronounced it.
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I guess it could be Labine, but I think it's Labine
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Ryan: It sounds like a Libyan.
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Jon: Mm-hmm.
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Ryan: Clothing line.
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Jon: But like this is the, this is the perfect role for him at that,
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at this point in his, in his life.
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Like, you know, he's built like a guy who would wear overalls and a giver hat
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Kearns: Yeah.
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Yep.
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Jon: Which I'm, I'm getting by the way.
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I wanted to have it in time by, for tonight, but it wasn't gonna be here
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so I haven't ordered it yet, but I'm definitely getting a giver hat
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Kearns: Gotta do it
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Ryan: Do it.
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Kearns: He doesn't even get credited on the show, by the way, For All
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Jon: one?
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No
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Kearns: No, he's not even on the extended cast list, which is an absolute travesty.
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He's looking good these days
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Jon: Yeah, he's lost some weight, yeah.
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Kearns: He's looking all right.
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Jon: Yeah
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Kearns: he's happy.
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Good for him, Tyler Bean
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Ryan: He's made it.
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I mean, when you get to that point where you can just coast in
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Hollywood and do what you love,
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Kearns: I don't know if he's at that
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Ryan: But
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Kearns: he can just
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Jon: I mean, he, he's
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Kearns: in the film can coast right now 'cause
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Jon: Yeah.
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Kearns: checks
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Jon: Yeah.
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I,
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Ryan: fair.
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Jon: how about, I bet, Tyler's doing all right.
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He w- oh, I forgot s- he was in s- the s- Second Super Troopers also
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Ryan: Yes, he was.
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Jon: He's one of the mounties
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Ryan: Yep
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Kearns: like the kid from, enough like the kid from Sixth Sense, we
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know it's not him 'cause that guy was, he was in Happy Gilmore too,
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Jon: Yeah.
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Kearns: exactly like you think he aged
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Jon: Deadbeat was the Hulu show
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Kearns: Oh, okay.
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All right.
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And the sheriff is another character that I was wondering if he was
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in, like, a million, uh, movies.
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but he didn't really pop up again
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Jon: Yeah, he's just one of those guys that sorta looks like it.
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He's pro- he's probably one of the most incompetent sheriffs we've ever seen
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in one of our, in the movies we've done
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Kearns: pretty bad, yeah.
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He's in a few things.
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Um, nothing that's like… "Cosmic Dawn" may have crossed your
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Jon: Mm-hmm.
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Kearns: Bad Building, what an interesting name.
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I bet you that's not a building you wanna rent anybody.
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Jon: Oh, maybe it is
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Kearns: a few horror movies in here.
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You've probably seen him in a few things that I haven't.
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"Possessed," I think that's the chick from "Species" in there,
18:29
which means I might have to watch it
18:32
Jon: Um, Natasha Henstridge
18:35
Kearns: Let's find out.
18:36
She looks like her.
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No
18:44
Maybe that's not her, unless she had a lot of work done.
18:47
No, it's Nicollette Sheridan.
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Jon: Oh
18:51
Kearns: It's Ann Culver.
18:52
A young Nicollette Sheridan, though.
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anyway.
18:55
Anywho, that's for, for our
18:57
Jon: Oh,
18:58
Kearns: characters
18:59
Jon: he's a, the sheriff is gonna be really buzzed about
19:02
'cause he's in Backrooms.
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Kearns: Oh, nice.
19:04
There you go.
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Jon: Yeah.
19:06
He's in
19:07
Kearns: uh, saw that pop up when we were looking for Van Helsing today to
19:10
give him a little horror movie magic uh, which got me in trouble with my wife.
19:15
And, uh, Van Helsing is not a horror movie, it's an
19:19
Jon: No, no.
19:21
Ryan: action,
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Kearns: the
19:22
Jon: Mm-hmm
19:23
Kearns: niche 'cause he said, "I wanna watch something with
19:24
monsters," and then he saw Backrooms.
19:26
I was like, "You are not watching Backrooms."
19:27
Ryan: Watch Van Helsing or Monster Squad?
19:30
Kearns: We got through… Well, I tried to do Little Monsters with
19:33
him, and he's like, "This is a kiddie movie." He was like, "You
19:35
Jon: Mm-hmm.
19:36
Kearns: talking about, son."
19:37
Ryan: about the one with Fred Savage?
19:39
Kearns: Yes, I am.
19:40
Ryan: not a kids movie.
19:41
Kearns: what I was gonna say.
19:41
It's the perfect movie for you years old, I thought.
19:45
So we watched.
19:46
Ryan: get to
19:47
Kearns: But then when it was like, yeah, the face on the
19:50
ground, that's a little graphic.
19:51
But Van Helsing's got those moments too, where they're a
19:53
Jon: Mm-hmm.
19:56
All right
19:56
Kearns: know, I got to enjoy Kate Beckinsale all afternoon, so I was like,
19:59
Jon: Yeah.
19:59
Kearns: with this
20:01
Jon: You could pull off Monster Squad with him, I think maybe.
20:04
He's right, he's,
20:06
Kearns: monsters
20:07
Jon: he's right on the borderline of Monster Squad.
20:10
Kearns: He
20:10
Jon: Yo-
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Kearns: watches like YouTube jump scare stuff
20:13
Jon: Mm-hmm.
20:14
Kearns: Head, and then he gets too scared to get up and pee.
20:16
So this was a risk.
20:18
This was a risk.
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Jon: Yep.
20:20
Kearns: We'll see how it pays off for him, Cotton
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Jon: I mean,
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Ryan: Mis
20:23
Jon: may have to, you may have to explain what nards are, but you could
20:27
probably get away with the Wolfman, with,
20:29
Kearns: they
20:29
Jon: Monster Squad
20:31
Kearns: and hit me right in my nuts.
20:33
I'm like, "You're six, you can't say nuts that much
20:37
Jon: In the crotch where, where my nuts hang
20:39
Ryan: That'd
20:39
Kearns: Yep.
20:40
Ryan: great change.
20:41
The nards.
20:42
Jon: I sent that clip to you guys, right?
20:44
Kearns: Yes, you did.
20:46
Jon: LVJ ordering pants from Hagar.
20:48
Oh my
20:49
Kearns: good
20:50
Jon: gosh.
20:51
Kearns: down
20:51
Jon: Goo- goo- Google that.
20:54
That like, even without that, with the part where he's talking about his, his
20:58
crotch and, and that area, the whole thing is just preposterous that like the
21:05
president could call a clothing company and detail to like the, the owner's son
21:11
exactly how he wants his pants tailored
21:15
Kearns: That's great
21:17
Ryan: it's a man who knows how he likes his pants and
21:20
Jon: that his weight fluctuates up to 15 pounds a month.
21:24
Kearns: That's a lot of meat
21:25
Jon: That's insane.
21:26
Yeah
21:26
Ryan: Yeah
21:27
Kearns: probably meat and beer, wow, wow, wow.
21:31
Ryan: diet
21:32
Jon: No
21:33
Kearns: Well, I wonder how late-- how long did LBJ live for?
21:37
find out
21:37
Jon: I think he got to a reasonable age.
21:40
I don't think he died terribly young
21:42
Kearns: Residential doctors, I tell you.
21:45
Ryan: Hmm.
21:46
Kearns: But all right, let's see.
21:48
Why don't we talk about a game?
21:50
Jon: We?
21:51
Kearns: Wait, how old was he though?
21:53
Ryan: Um, that's a
21:55
Jon: Mid-70s probably
21:57
Ryan: Let's see.
21:57
He was born in 1908, gentlemen
21:59
Kearns: Kind of young for a president, sadly.
22:02
Jon: No,
22:02
Kearns: Okay,
22:03
Jon: younger than I would've thought.
22:04
Kearns: Yeah,
22:05
Jon: than I would've thought.
22:06
Kearns: It says 60s.
22:07
Jon: Yeah
22:08
Ryan: Yeah
22:08
Kearns: young
22:11
Ryan: 64?
22:11
Kearns: No.
22:13
Ryan: Yeah.
22:13
Wow
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Kearns: way too young.
22:15
one year over retirement these days.
22:17
Womp, womp, womp.
22:20
That's no fun at
22:21
Jon: Seriously.
22:25
Kearns: All right, kids.
22:26
Jon: He didn't come tell it, right?
22:28
Kearns: I understand you have an insidious game for us this week, John
22:31
Jon: I mean, define, define insidious.
22:35
Kearns: You made it.
22:36
Ryan: excellent movie
22:39
Jon: It's… So we're gonna go away from Stash or Slash this week.
22:43
We're gonna go back to i- this originally started as a Stash or Slash, and I,
22:49
I didn't… There's too many movies on here that are coming up, and I
22:53
didn't want, you know, either of you to not be able to record an episode.
22:58
Um, so we're gonna- we're just gonna blind rank them.
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It's eight movies.
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It's a blind rank.
23:05
It's horror comedies, so you get that.
23:08
It's, you know, no guessing.
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And we'll start right here with American Werewolf in London.
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Ryan: Why are you doing this to me?
23:15
I'm
23:15
Kearns: It's a tough start
23:17
Ryan: I'm putting that at number two
23:19
Kearns: That's a tough start.
23:22
Number two.
23:23
How many movies?
23:25
Jon: Hey
23:27
Ryan: There's a
23:27
Kearns: This is gonna be four.
23:29
This is gonna be four for me.
23:32
Ryan: Well,
23:32
Kearns: On the better side of the top of the, of the two halves,
23:35
but still right around that middle
23:36
Jon: Mm-hmm.
23:37
Ryan: It's, it's so good.
23:38
I mean, I got the, you know, the treat to see it later on, so I had a
23:42
little bit of a better understanding.
23:43
But I feel like if I caught it on Syfy as a young lad, I really would've enjoyed it
23:49
Jon: Hmm,
23:50
Kearns: Look at the top credit.
23:52
That's amazing.
23:53
Like,
23:54
Jon: hmm.
23:54
Kearns: nothing to do with this genre whatsoever, but you like this movie.
23:58
Jon: Yeah.
23:58
Kearns: it
23:59
Jon: From the director of Animal House, a different kind of animal.
24:05
I, I like that.
24:06
Kearns: Yucky, yucky,
24:07
Jon: all right.
24:08
So a four and a two for American Werewolf in London.
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Movie number two is who you gonna call?
24:16
Ghostbusters
24:18
Kearns: Now we're just ranking them for movies we like
24:20
Jon: Yeah, you're one, uh, how you would rank these one through eight
24:24
Ryan: Give me Ghostbusters for three
24:27
Kearns: I like Ghostbusters a lot.
24:31
I'm gonna put it at five.
24:34
One
24:34
Jon: is the one
24:35
Kearns: like Ryan, but down the line
24:37
Jon: this is the one I got Allison with.
24:38
This was, would've been her two, and she ended up with, I think it at six or seven.
24:44
Kearns: Ooh.
24:45
Jon: She was very, very,
24:46
Kearns: it at five
24:47
Jon: very displeased with me and the way I ordered it for her.
24:52
Ryan: I mean, if
24:53
Jon: movie number three.
24:54
No, go ahead
24:55
Ryan: I was gonna say, if you look at both movies, like, feel like Ghostbusters
24:59
is great in the comedy aspect, but
25:01
Jon: Mm-hmm.
25:02
Ryan: and how it's filmed, American Werewolf's just got that
25:05
Jon: Yes.
25:05
Ryan: that stands out.
25:07
But Ghostbusters has that zany fun
25:09
Kearns: The effects
25:10
Ryan: Ramis, uh, Murray
25:13
Jon: So Ghostbusters is the only one of these eight that I don't have in my
25:19
horror section in my, my collection.
25:22
I have this in, in comedy, but it is a horror comedy.
25:28
Uh, number three, Slither
25:32
Kearns: Ooh, I do not care for "Slither."
25:35
Ryan: I'll put that
25:36
Kearns: I do not.
25:37
I'm gonna drop it to eight too.
25:38
I watched most of it, but
25:41
Ryan: Y-
25:41
Kearns: nah
25:41
Ryan: a good film.
25:43
It's good.
25:43
Jon: love Slither
25:45
Ryan: Michael Rooker
25:47
Kearns: You would, you insidious bastard
25:49
Jon: I love this movie
25:52
Ryan: like how they move.
25:52
Nathan Fillion's in it too, right?
25:54
He's
25:54
Jon: Yep.
25:55
And Elizabeth Banks
25:57
Ryan: Yep
25:58
Kearns: Elizabeth Banks
25:59
Jon: Yeah.
26:00
All right, so number, movie number f-
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Kearns: on career.
26:04
We have to do that when we get back, by the way.
26:07
We left Allison out
26:09
Jon: Yeah.
26:10
Uh, number four, Return of the Living Dead.
26:15
They're back from the grave and ready to party
26:19
Kearns: I do like this one too.
26:20
It's not as high up for me in the Living- in the Dead movies
26:25
as, you know, it could be.
26:29
it's more '80s than the other ones.
26:31
It's
26:31
Jon: Mm-hmm.
26:32
Kearns: to it, and that's not necessarily a good thing in my mind.
26:35
But it's funnier
26:38
Um, I, I'm scared to put this at three, but I kinda wanna put it at three.
26:44
I'm gonna do it.
26:45
I'm gonna do it.
26:45
I'm putting it at three, and then five for Rion
26:52
Jon: Brian?
26:53
Ryan: Oh, five.
26:54
Jon: Five
26:56
Ryan: Yeah, I'd put it higher, but
26:59
Jon: But you already used those spots.
27:01
Ryan: I use two and three.
27:02
Yeah.
27:03
So f- five is the safe for me.
27:06
Jon: All right
27:06
Ryan: for a specific one, so we'll see
27:09
Jon: Mm, we'll see if that pays off.
27:11
Um, so let's recap halfway through.
27:14
Uh, Kearns, you have one, two, six, and seven left.
27:19
Ryan, you have one, four, six, and seven
27:24
All right, some movie number five is Dead Alive
27:31
Kearns: Number two.
27:35
Number two.
27:37
enough for me
27:39
Ryan: I'll put it at six
27:41
Jon: Correct
27:43
Kearns: Oh my gosh
27:45
Jon: So at this point I ju- I just wanna ask 'cause neither of
27:49
you have used one, are you waiting for something in particular?
27:53
Ryan: Yes.
27:53
Kearns: Yes.
27:56
Jon: What are you waiting for?
27:57
Kearns: Strong in the dead
27:59
Ryan: Oh.
28:00
Jon: Ryan, what are you waiting for?
28:01
Oh, interesting.
28:04
Interesting
28:06
Ryan: thing.
28:06
If Shaun of the Dead comes up and it's the last film and my number one
28:10
is open, that is a worthy number one.
28:12
Shaun of the Dead is a classic comedy horror
28:15
Jon: Mm-hmm.
28:16
Ryan: Seen
28:17
Jon: right, well
28:17
Kearns: a huge homage to Young Frankenstein in my basement, by the
28:22
way, and I might end up putting it at number seven or number eight.
28:25
That's sad
28:28
Jon: All right.
28:29
Ryan: That is,
28:29
Jon: Let, well, let's, let's see how disappointed you guys are gonna be.
28:33
Next, Zombieland
28:36
Ryan: um
28:37
Kearns: I would have put this above Ghostbusters if I could
28:40
Ryan: Yeah, I would, I'll put it at four
28:43
Jon: All right.
28:44
Kearns: I have one, seven, and eight left
28:46
Jon: You have one, six, and seven left
28:49
Kearns: Oh, one, six, and seven left.
28:50
All right, I, six it is, Zombieland.
28:52
Six it is.
28:53
Jon: You know, right?
28:54
All right, so you both have one and seven left
28:59
Kearns: That's great.
29:00
Jon: Yeah.
29:02
I don't know about that
29:04
Ryan: Let's see
29:05
Jon: Let's see which one of you is gonna be disappointed.
29:09
Ah, here's movie seven.
29:10
It's Army of Darkness
29:14
Kearns: Ah,
29:15
Ryan: though?
29:16
Kearns: that's, that's,
29:17
Ryan: You-
29:17
Kearns: that's gotta go to one.
29:19
Yeah, I can't put that at seven, bro.
29:21
Ryan: Army of Darkness is one
29:23
Kearns: "Here's my boom stick. Shop smart, shop S-Mart." We
29:27
quoted this movie for 10 years.
29:29
Longer, but it
29:30
Jon: Yep.
29:30
Kearns: a bit
29:32
Jon: Yeah, all right.
29:34
That means you guys have, both have your number seven left
29:38
Kearns: And if you put one of those two movies that we were hoping for as
29:41
the last pick, you're such a bastard.
29:43
Ryan: be Young Frankenstein, I bet you any
29:46
Kearns: Frank, yeah, he definitely did.
29:47
Look at him.
29:48
Ryan: Young Frankenstein
29:49
Kearns: Look at him.
29:51
Aw.
29:52
Jon: this is one of my favorite ones ever.
29:54
Yeah, you guys would be heartbroken to lose this one for eternity.
29:58
Kearns: It is
29:59
Jon: Movie number eight, it's Shaun of the Dead
30:03
Ryan: I can
30:03
Kearns: I-
30:04
Ryan: that at number seven.
30:05
I don't know about you, Current
30:07
Kearns: No.
30:08
Jon: No.
30:08
A
30:09
Kearns: Uh,
30:10
Jon: is way too low for Sean
30:13
Ryan: I'm kinda
30:14
Kearns: put it at… I would've put it, uh, easily reverse this with
30:17
Return of the Living Dead, and that would've made me happy with my list
30:20
Ryan: Mm. No, I can keep Return at five, Sean at seven.
30:25
switch that with… Ah, you can't switch that with Dead Alive
30:28
Kearns: Nah, Dead Alive's good where it is.
30:30
Return to seven, this to, to three I think is where I have it.
30:35
Have Return and I would've been okay.
30:38
Ryan: I'm
30:38
Kearns: Bummer.
30:39
Bummer
30:41
Jon: Um, I, I couldn't put Young Frankenstein on here because I think it's
30:45
too much comedy and not enough horror.
30:48
Kearns: Yeah, it's,
30:49
Jon: Same, same thing with Dracula: Dead and Loving It.
30:52
Like, I couldn't put it o- that on here because it's, w- too
30:55
comedy, not enough horror for me
30:57
Ryan: Dracula I can say yes, I agree with that.
31:00
Young Frankenstein though borrows so much from Frankenstein bride and, uh, Son of
31:05
Jon: Oh, yeah, he, no
31:07
Ryan: like, it, it's like, I don't know, that's where I feel like it
31:10
goes into that horror trope a little
31:11
Kearns: It
31:11
Jon: Mm-hmm.
31:13
Kearns: with them
31:14
Jon: No, no doubt.
31:15
It just feels like the slapsticky elements of that put it too horror,
31:21
uh, too comedy for me rather.
31:23
It's just…
31:24
Ryan: hand?
31:25
Jon: The, just the whole thing is the, the whole thing is just a
31:28
little more comedy for me than, than I would have for a horror comedy.
31:35
Ryan: So when
31:35
Jon: I love Young Frankenstein, don't get me wrong.
31:38
It's, like, probably one of my 10 favorite comedies, but
31:42
Ryan: So when you get into horror comedy, you're really
31:44
thinking like more it's like-
31:45
Jon: want, I want the horror elements too.
31:48
Ryan: Okay
31:48
Jon: I want strong horror elements in my horror comedies
31:52
Ryan: So it's like
31:53
Kearns: Mm-hmm.
31:53
Ryan: your-- it's more of the subgenre type.
31:55
Like you get that horror as the basic.
31:57
Like,
31:57
Jon: Mm-hmm
31:57
Ryan: um, you could have, you could have even thrown Frighteners on there
32:01
Jon: Oh, yeah.
32:02
Kearns: Very nice
32:03
Jon: absolutely.
32:04
But f- yeah, Fright, Fright Night, I didn't wanna put two Peter
32:08
Jacksons on there though, so
32:10
Ryan: That would have killed me, 'cause I would have put that
32:12
higher than Army of the Darkness.
32:14
I love Frighteners.
32:17
It's a
32:17
Jon: Frighteners is a good movie.
32:18
Frighteners is a good movie.
32:20
Ryan: That
32:21
Jon: Really nice, really nice foreign, uh, 4K of it too
32:26
Kearns: Got a good Buc-ee in it
32:28
Jon: Yeah.
32:28
It's Jake
32:30
Ryan: Good old
32:31
Kearns: All right.
32:32
So we did skip over Katrina Bowden, who plays
32:35
Jon: Mm-hmm.
32:36
We did.
32:37
Kearns: Three Double D,
32:39
Jon: Yeah
32:39
Kearns: by the way, is funny.
32:43
Jon: Mm-hmm.
32:44
Kearns: not really.
32:45
She didn't go on a huge things.
32:47
Jon: No
32:48
Ryan: She
32:48
Kearns: Great White, which might be based off of a very good book.
32:52
She… Oh, she was?
32:54
Ryan: Yep, the fourth and final
32:55
Kearns: Monolith.
32:58
Ryan: Oh
33:00
Kearns: Um, yeah, not much.
33:01
A lot of B horror movies or at le-
33:03
Jon: Mm-hmm.
33:03
Kearns: the very least, um… Oh, she was in Old Dads
33:08
Jon: Oh my gosh.
33:10
Kearns: Scary Movie 5 Freaks out a bit, but not much.
33:15
Not much.
33:16
So she, she's kinda, yeah, she's kinda is what it is sorta thing.
33:20
Jon: Mm-hmm
33:21
Kearns: a, A Christmas in New Hope.
33:24
She's in a Hallmark movie, which is the sign of a dying career.
33:29
Ryan: Oh.
33:30
Jon: I, I, I bet, I bet there's some decent residual checks in
33:34
there 'cause they just air this, them over and over every year.
33:37
Ryan: Yeah, they do
33:39
Jon: Those, those Hallmark movies air 24/7 on a couple of those channels
33:43
once you get past Thanksgiving
33:46
Ryan: Yes, they
33:47
Kearns: He's in a movie with some, with Jackson?
33:50
Is that Sam Jackson?
33:52
Ryan: Snakes on
33:52
Kearns: The Unholy Trinity?
33:55
If only.
33:56
Jon: I don't think I know the Unholy Trinity
33:59
Kearns: that is Sam Jackson.
34:00
It looks like Harry Potter, Pierce Brosnan, and Sam Jackson are in
34:04
this movie based on this picture.
34:05
It's not Harry Potter, it's Brandon Lessard.
34:09
But she sure in it
34:12
Ryan: Mixed reviews.
34:14
Seems like a
34:14
Kearns: This is weird
34:16
Ryan: Yeah, direct to home video
34:19
Kearns: Yeah.
34:20
As Sam, so this is bizarre too though.
34:22
Sam Jackson's on the cover but not given… Oh, there he is.
34:25
He's like the 16th person down on the cast listing
34:28
Jon: Mm-hmm.
34:29
Yeah, we're gonna… We put him in the movie so we can put him
34:32
on the, on the poster, but he's in here for about 10 seconds.
34:36
Ryan: That's
34:36
Kearns: Likely, yeah
34:37
Jon: He g- he come, he comes through and mother Fs a couple
34:40
people, and that's, that's his role
34:45
Ryan: We out here
34:46
Kearns: That's funny.
34:48
We out here in the West
34:50
Jon: But she, she works as Allison in Tucker and Dale.
34:54
Kearns: Yeah, she's good
34:55
Jon: She, she does a really, I mean, the, it doesn't require her to do a whole
35:00
lot except get knocked out a few times.
35:03
But, you know, the scene, her scenes with Dale become really believable.
35:08
They, they really, they sell that, like at the Beauty and the Beast sort of angle
35:14
Kearns: Yeah.
35:15
they like, "I was a-- I grew up on a farm." You're like figuring out that
35:18
she's actually quite a good match for him
35:20
Jon: Yeah.
35:21
Yeah
35:22
Kearns: they drop their prejudices.
35:23
Well, he never had any.
35:24
She drops her prejudices
35:26
Jon: Mm-hmm.
35:27
And, and like really her prejudices are more not even direct prejudice
35:33
so much as just misconception by the way Dale presents himself.
35:38
Kearns: Yeah.
35:38
Jon: You know?
35:39
And then,
35:39
Kearns: any young lady should re-
35:40
Jon: mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
35:42
And then r- like the next time she sees Tucker his face is all bee stung
35:47
so he looks… Like, and that, 'cause that's really the other thing they
35:51
do aside from like every action that Dale makes being creepy, everything
35:57
Tucker does makes him look worse
36:00
Kearns: Yeah
36:01
Ryan: Well, let's go back to the bee sting real quick 'cause that's pretty goes, he's
36:05
cutting a tree limb with the
36:07
Jon: Uh-huh.
36:08
Ryan: nest and he's like flailing
36:09
Jon: Uh-huh.
36:10
Ryan: college
36:10
Jon: He f- flailing around with the chainsaw and running through the
36:14
woods in the direction of the college kids that he, he's not even aware of.
36:19
You know, and then they all start running, and he's running alongside one of them
36:23
who's clearly afraid that he's being chased by the guy with the chainsaw
36:29
to the point where he's not looking where he runs, and he impales himself
36:34
on a branch while, you know, Tucker's waving the chainsaw a- yelling, "Bees!"
36:42
Kearns: It's her first accidental deceasement
36:44
Jon: Yep
36:46
Ryan: Well, he all thought, he thought they were all allergic.
36:48
That's why they were running.
36:51
Kearns: Yeah.
36:51
They must be allergic to bees.
36:53
They left
36:54
Ryan: but that leads to the whole thing when they're digging the
36:56
outhouse and they're thinking
36:57
Jon: Mm-hmm.
36:58
Ryan: her grave.
36:59
They're making her
37:00
Jon: Yeah.
37:01
Yeah.
37:01
Ryan: is another good scene where the kid
37:03
Jon: Mm-hmm.
37:04
Ryan: with the staff or the
37:05
Kearns: Yeah, it's the second
37:07
Jon: Mm-hmm.
37:07
Kearns: in 15 minutes, and then we get the wood chipper.
37:10
The guy goes into the
37:10
Jon: Mm-hmm.
37:11
Kearns: three college
37:12
Jon: Yeah, yeah.
37:13
Kearns: that.
37:14
Jon: I think it's four from there, yeah
37:16
Kearns: Yeah
37:16
Ryan: one of my, that's my second favorite, like, un- you know,
37:21
unalive moment in the film.
37:23
The first one, we'll, we'll get to later when it comes up in the cabin.
37:28
Jon: Oh, see, see the wood chip, with the wood chipper is the one
37:31
that, that makes me laugh the most.
37:33
Like, and then you, and then, and then you,
37:36
Kearns: in
37:36
Jon: you get the visual of the, the, the two of them trying to get the
37:41
bottom half of him out of the chainsaw.
37:43
And wow, he's heavy for half a guy or have- whatever.
37:47
Like, and you, and you, you know, you get Allison getting knocked out again
37:53
and waking up and, and Dale asking her, "Do your friends take medication?"
37:59
'Cause I don't think-
38:00
Kearns: guy's legs if he's all right.
38:03
"Are you okay?" Afterword, that's pretty good too.
38:07
It's just a good, goofy movie
38:09
Jon: Yeah, like a- until, until the college kids lay siege
38:14
to the cabin, Tucker and Dale have no clue what's going on.
38:21
Like, none whatsoever
38:24
Kearns: They're just, they think it's a big misunderstanding
38:27
Jon: Mm-hmm.
38:29
Yeah.
38:30
Kearns: like their s-
38:30
Jon: they have,
38:31
Kearns: option
38:32
Jon: they have a self-unaliving pact
38:35
Kearns: Yes, which is pretty funny.
38:37
Jon: Mm-hmm.
38:38
Kearns: Just
38:38
Jon: And that, and that they're coming after Allison because
38:41
she's not taking part in it.
38:43
Like, it's insane
38:45
Kearns: It is.
38:46
And the sheriff goes, goes in a silly way, too.
38:48
The,
38:49
Jon: Mm-hmm.
38:50
Kearns: that with the beam in the beginning of the mo-
38:51
Jon: Yeah.
38:52
Mm-hmm.
38:52
Kearns: of the movie.
38:53
Jon: Yeah
38:54
Kearns: The sheriff eats it.
38:55
He eats it pretty badly, too.
38:56
Jon: Yeah, it is.
38:57
Yeah
38:58
Kearns: rough way to go
38:59
Ryan: that they don't warn him quickly?
39:01
They warn her, Allison quickly though.
39:04
"Don't, don't do that." And then with the sheriff, they warn him
39:07
after the fact, and then he gets
39:09
Jon: Mm-hmm.
39:10
Well, I, I, I think with the sheriff, the stakes are different
39:13
too, because at that point they're completely uno- caught unaware.
39:18
Like, "Why is, why does the cop wanna talk to us?" And like, I
39:22
mean, right from the start, Tucker's like, "We've had a doozy of a day.
39:28
You're not gonna believe this," but
39:32
Ryan: These kids
39:33
Jon: right, he's not gonna believe it.
39:34
There's, you know, there's a body in the yard.
39:37
There's like leg- You guys are covered in blood.
39:40
Kearns: yeah, they were
39:41
Jon: You're carrying legs
39:44
Kearns: It was not good.
39:45
It was
39:46
Jon: Yeah.
39:47
Kearns: Allison does very well
39:49
Jon: Mm-hmm
39:51
Kearns: Uh, I'm not necessarily sure if she's aware of her
39:56
friends' fates throughout
39:58
Ryan: Not,
39:59
Kearns: Like, one of them is already deceased
40:02
Jon: Yeah
40:03
Kearns: digging with him, and they're like sort of, you know,
40:05
getting to know each other better and
40:06
Jon: Mm-hmm.
40:08
Yeah, I mean, she's knocked out for the one that impales himself in the, pit too
40:14
Ryan: Yep.
40:16
'Cause
40:17
Kearns: It's true
40:17
Jon: Yeah.
40:18
Yeah
40:19
Kearns: Amy turns around.
40:21
She's knocked out for half the movie
40:23
Jon: Yeah, I don't, I don't think she's aware really of how bad things have
40:28
gotten until the fire towards the end
40:31
Kearns: Yeah.
40:31
But she does her psychology with Chad and Dale, and that goes great
40:37
Ryan: The, scene, I'm sorry, that, that's the scene that got
40:40
me 'cause I was just watching.
40:42
They're like, "Here, put them out," and they throw the
40:44
moonshine on him, and I'm just
40:45
Jon: Uh-huh.
40:46
No, not that.
40:49
Kearns: And then
40:50
Jon: I'm aller- I'm allergic
40:51
Kearns: of, the
40:51
Jon: to chamomile.
40:53
Kearns: the stack of all of the gas and kerosene
40:56
Jon: Mm-hmm.
41:00
Ryan: the cigarette, I'm like, "There's gotta be gas cans there,"
41:02
and they show the gas cans.
41:03
I'm like, "Oh, have that last puff. There you go"
41:08
Kearns: Wild stuff
41:10
Jon: I mean, there's really from the start no suspense.
41:13
They, you know, they sort of start the movie at the end, you
41:17
know, with Chad and the reporters.
41:20
So you know or you should know where this is going, that it's
41:27
really not Tucker and Dale that are the villains, although really Chad
41:31
hasn't taken anybody out either.
41:34
Chad is just… I think that
41:38
Kearns: wuss
41:38
Jon: w- y- yeah, that's, I think that's kinda Chad's plan, and you
41:42
find out that Chad's mom is the lone survivor of the Memorial Day massacre
41:48
Ryan: Mm-hmm
41:49
Kearns: That's the closest thing to a twist this movie does.
41:52
Jon: Yeah
41:53
Kearns: that spot of the Memorial Day massacre and everything
41:56
is completely unnecessary and
41:57
Jon: Mm-hmm.
41:58
Kearns: to the film too,
41:59
Jon: Yep.
41:59
Kearns: there.
42:00
Jon: Yep.
42:00
Kearns: doesn't take away from it, but
42:02
Jon: No, no.
42:03
Kearns: And
42:04
Jon: It,
42:05
Kearns: how
42:05
Jon: yeah.
42:06
Kearns: out of this, right?
42:07
Jon: Well, yeah, every step in the paranoia about Tucker and Dale with
42:12
the college kids is fed by Chad because Chad has this preexisting
42:19
rage towards hillbillies because they killed his mom and they're the reason
42:23
why his dad never returned, like went missing until you realize that…
42:31
And that picture is amazing because it's go- just Chad with like a big
42:35
Amish beard and you realize that, oh, Chad's dad was one of the murderous
42:43
hillbillies and like Chad trying to reckon with that is pretty funny too.
42:51
"I'm not a hillbilly," you know?
42:54
Ryan: I'm not one But
42:56
Kearns: Okay, well let's see what
42:57
Ryan: into his madness
43:00
Jon: Mm-hmm.
43:00
Oh yeah, like Chad just completely falls apart
43:05
Kearns: Well, he can't rationalize the fact that Allison won't be with him.
43:08
Like, he's the
43:09
Jon: Mm-hmm.
43:10
Kearns: silver spoon kid.
43:11
Jon: Yep.
43:12
Yep.
43:12
quintessential college bro, you know, the, shirt with the collar
43:17
and that big thick white belt
43:22
Kearns: Mm-hmm.
43:23
He's awful.
43:24
He's perfect, the perfect guy to hate.
43:26
Jon: Mm-hmm.
43:27
Kearns: why don't we find out what some people think about this movie?
43:30
'Cause it's about that time
43:31
Jon: It is about that time, and it's, it's really… This was the hardest
43:36
search for one stars that I had.
43:39
Ryan: Good.
43:40
Kearns: Riri
43:41
Ryan: good for the, the hard part, but good because people realize it's a good
43:44
Jon: Yeah, I mean, I mean, there were a couple of one stars that, you know, are
43:47
basically just, like, bad movie, you know?
43:50
Like, but those are no fun to do.
43:52
so this currently on Rotten Tomatoes has an 86% critic
43:56
score and an 85% audience score.
43:59
Ryan: That's
44:00
Jon: So people, people mostly like Tucker & Dale.
44:03
Um, here's a five star: "I don't tend to be one for gory movies, but somehow this
44:11
movie manages to get away with it due to the fact that it pushes the envelope
44:16
on just how funny a movie can be while hardly relying on the gore for humor.
44:23
It's a hilarious commentary on how preconceived notions and
44:27
misunderstandings can cause unwanted and unnecessary outcomes, and also
44:33
how a manipulative mind can take advantage of these flaws in others."
44:41
Kearns: Okay.
44:41
Jon: And that, you,
44:43
Kearns: Chad
44:44
Jon: that's a lot of thought put into Tucker & Dale, but it's,
44:47
you know, you get, you get to the heart of what this movie is.
44:50
Kearns: Mm-hmm.
44:52
Jon: and then we have a one star, and this is from 2018.
44:56
This is how far back I had to go to find reasonable one-star reviews.
45:02
Uh, one star.
45:04
"I guess I should say this review contains spoilers even though
45:08
there is not much to spoil.
45:10
This is just a boring one-joke movie.
45:14
It's pretty much an SNL skit stretched out to feature length.
45:19
Idiotic teens mistake a couple of stereotypical crackers for killers,
45:24
attack them, but only one managed to kill themselves in the process.
45:30
Multiple times.
45:32
End credits.
45:33
There's really not much more to the story.
45:35
It's a waste of time and talent."
45:39
Ryan: They need to watch It's Pat if they wanna see a SNL
45:43
skit turn into a feature movie
45:45
Jon: I mean, I, I, I get some of that.
45:50
It, it, like it's… But they're not trying to do more than what they did.
45:55
Like they're not, it's not trying to make great statements on anything.
45:59
It's not trying to be like the great horror movie.
46:02
It's a fun movie, and if you, if you can't sit and watch Tucker and
46:05
Dale and have fun, you're probably just as bad as our half-star review.
46:11
And I don't think this guy likes movies.
46:13
Just based on his reviews, he is nothing above like a three star.
46:18
The only, movie I think he liked was, um, uh, Mission Impossible:
46:23
Dead Reckoning Part One.
46:26
Ryan: It's not
46:26
Jon: It's the only, the only thing he liked.
46:29
So
46:30
Ryan: better Mission Impossibles too, which is the sad part
46:33
Jon: No.
46:34
Half star.
46:36
I don't know how this movie got such great reviews.
46:39
They're misleading.
46:41
It's super predictable and very cliche.
46:45
Nothing new in this movie that you haven't seen plenty of times.
46:49
If the comedy doesn't land for you, it's going to be a painful watch, and when you
46:54
realize that the first 15 minutes of the movie is basically what the entire movie
46:59
is going to be, it becomes unbearable.
47:04
Characters are all dumb and annoying, constantly making dumb
47:08
decisions, and it's not even funny.
47:12
The humor is nothing new.
47:14
Pacing sucks, and it drags.
47:17
I would definitely not recommend this movie.
47:19
It's pretty dumb
47:22
Kearns: I mean, it, you can make the argument for dumb, but in a good way,
47:26
Jon: Yeah.
47:27
Yeah, and,
47:28
Ryan: a half star
47:29
Jon: and like I said, predictable?
47:32
Sure.
47:32
They show you the end in the first two minutes of the movie.
47:36
They show you exactly where this movie's gonna go.
47:41
Of course it, uh, you know, but unpredictable at the end
47:46
because you have Allison and Dale bowling together, and Dale giving
47:52
relationship advice to, to the dude.
47:56
And then you get to watch in the background while Dale and
48:00
Allison are having this romantic moment, the chaos that Dale just
48:05
unleashed with this other guy.
48:07
Kearns: Mm-hmm.
48:08
Jon: Yeah, I, I love when that happens in movies.
48:11
Like, that's one of my favorite things about a movie, is when in the
48:14
foreground you have the scene, and it's what they want y- what you, you
48:20
know, you're expected to focus on.
48:22
But in the background, it's just chaos.
48:25
Kearns: Just bedlam.
48:26
Jon: Mm-hmm.
48:27
Kearns: I feel
48:28
Jon: So-
48:28
Kearns: Nielsen Naked Gun thing they did a lot
48:32
Jon: Yeah.
48:32
Mm-hmm.
48:34
Kearns: like, off a
48:35
Jon: Mm-hmm.
48:36
Kearns: or something
48:36
Ryan: When
48:37
Jon: Yeah.
48:37
Ryan: the bus
48:39
Jon: It's definitely one of my favorite things, and it, it's something that
48:42
really I've, I think takes repeated viewings to catch a lot of the time
48:47
Kearns: Mm-hmm.
48:47
Ryan: Yeah.
48:48
'Cause they
48:50
Jon: 'Cause you do.
48:51
You, you, yeah, I mean, you get drawn into the foreground and you don't even notice.
48:57
But anyway, we've heard what other people thought about Tucker & Dale.
49:01
What do you guys think?
49:03
Kearns: Now ranking this movie is tricky comparing it to other
49:06
movies that we have on this list.
49:08
Like, how do
49:09
Jon: Mm-hmm.
49:13
Kearns: is a satire and a comedy.
49:15
Jon: Mm-hmm.
49:16
Kearns: with that in mind, like a 3.75
49:20
Ryan: Okay
49:21
Kearns: I give it 3.75.
49:23
It's an enjoyable movie, so that factors in heavily.
49:26
Like, it's a good watch from beginning to end.
49:28
that's not every movie, so
49:31
Ryan: You, you stole my ranking.
49:32
I give it a 3.75 as well.
49:35
I think it just, it hits, like, if you like comedy, it hits that part.
49:39
You like horror, it's got the gore.
49:41
But you're, I mean, you're in it for the horror, but you're in it more
49:44
for the comedy, the whole idea of the trope, the reversal of the characters,
49:49
the hillbillies who are supposed to be antagonistic being these dudes, and the
49:54
college kids who are usually the ones who are supposed to be the innocent, you
49:57
Jon: Mm-hmm.
49:57
Ryan: the ones who are the heroes are the bad guys.
50:00
It's a nice reversal, and it was, it's refreshing, you know?
50:04
Jon: Mm-hmm.
50:04
Ryan: And I feel like looking at it and you're going in going, "Oh,
50:08
I'm gonna watch the next Halloween or Texas Chainsaw Massacre or Hills
50:11
Have Eyes." It's not that movie.
50:13
Just have fun with it.
50:14
You got Alan Tudyk in there, for God's
50:16
Jon: Mm-hmm.
50:17
Ryan: How can… It's not gonna be serious
50:20
Jon: No.
50:21
No.
50:22
Um, so I'm gonna end up way above you guys on this one, 'cause this is like…
50:27
Ryan: A blue star?
50:29
Jon: no, it's not that far.
50:30
It's not that far.
50:31
But this is probably, like, if, if you put this on a blind rank for me and I
50:37
didn't get this in the, my top four horror comedies, I'd probably be disappointed.
50:44
Tucker & Dale is way up there for me.
50:46
This is one of those that if I need to be picked up, I can put on and feel better.
50:52
Like, everything about it just makes me happy.
50:55
This is a 4.5 for me.
50:57
Like, this is like, this is way, way up there for me.
51:01
And you know, I, I hadn't really thought about it until this watch how much I would
51:07
like to see this universe be revisited.
51:12
Because I think there's so… There- You can do more with
51:15
Tucker and Dale in particular.
51:17
I don't think you need the… I don't know how much you would need
51:20
an Allison character back in it.
51:22
And there, I mean, there have been talks of a sequel, but as of right
51:28
now, it sounds like it's dead.
51:32
there was an interview from last year with Eli Craig where, you know, he says
51:37
that, um, Tucker & Dale 2 has died more times than the teens in the movie did.
51:44
Um, and most recently, um, I just lost the guy's name, but one of
51:49
the, the Universal CEO who has been shutting down fully completed movies
51:57
to take tax write-offs, like Batgirl is in there, a sequel to Scoob!
52:01
is in there, like, they're completed movies that he has just
52:05
shelved for, to, to use as tax write-offs, as like, you know, loss.
52:11
So that, that's where, that's where Tucker & Dale sequels sit now.
52:15
They're not completed, but they're in that sort of developmental hell that
52:21
they're not gonna come out of in the foreseeable future, if ever, because
52:26
this guy runs Universal, and Universal, I guess, controls the rights to it.
52:31
you know, one of the things that was talked about wasn't
52:33
a movie, but a TV series where Tucker and Dale are detectives.
52:37
Ryan: That's
52:37
Jon: you imagine them trying to solve crimes?
52:40
That would be the funniest thing ever.
52:43
Kearns: Yeah, that
52:43
Jon: g-
52:44
Kearns: fantastic
52:45
Jon: you know, it's, it's, it would sort of be like a goofier, um, to go to my
52:51
favorite Joe Lansdale series, it would be like a Hap and Leonard kind of thing.
52:57
Kearns: nice.
52:58
Ryan: Okay
52:59
Jon: It's, you know, yeah.
53:01
Oh, oh, bro,
53:04
Kearns: That'll
53:04
Jon: you have a, a, if you guy- if our listeners haven't read any of the Hap
53:08
and Leonard stuff, like, oh my gosh, forget, forget Lansdale's horror, which
53:12
is top tier impeccable horror writing.
53:16
His mystery detective writing is just so good.
53:21
You, like, the way he writes those two characters, you know, Hap being
53:27
like a, a liberal hippie white Texan dude, and his best friend
53:33
Leonard is a gay Black conservative.
53:37
Like, it's just the funniest pairing of guys and the way he writes them like, oh
53:42
my gosh, go, go and get those books too
53:45
Kearns: he's a super nice guy.
53:46
I was in a, um-- I don't know why he gave me the time of day in
53:49
it, but I was on a Facebook chat, and h- Lansdale was in there.
53:53
Like, Ellen Datlow and people like that were talking.
53:56
And I mentioned that I couldn't get a copy of his book.
53:59
It was like it's being sold used for like $79 on Amazon.
54:03
And he goes, "Oh, just get in touch with my daughter." Like, he sent
54:07
me a direct message and said, uh, "Just get in touch with my daughter.
54:09
She'll sell it to you for whatever for cost." I was like, "Oh, all right." But
54:14
he, in true Lansdale fashion, he, like, didn't tell me how to get in touch with
54:17
his daughter or what his daughter's name
54:19
Jon: Mm-hmm.
54:19
Kearns: like that.
54:20
Jon: It's,
54:21
Kearns: buddy."
54:22
Jon: it's Casey, I think
54:23
Kearns: guy.
54:23
Casey Lansdale makes sense.
54:25
Jon: I think it's Casey.
54:27
Kearns: down, and then I just lost interest in the book after a while.
54:30
Jon: Which book?
54:30
Kearns: it.
54:31
I don't even remember anymore.
54:32
It was, like, kind of like a flash in the pan thing at the time.
54:36
Jon: I, I think a lot,
54:37
Kearns: things Lansdale at the moment
54:38
Jon: mm-hmm, a lot of his non-Hap and Leonard stuff is, I think is
54:44
small publishers, so it goes in and out of print pretty quickly
54:48
Kearns: Mm-hmm.
54:48
Ryan: Gotcha
54:49
Kearns: It's hard to get stuff.
54:50
Um, that's one of the reasons too he's like a cult icon because
54:53
Jon: Yeah
54:54
Kearns: you have to kinda like really get out there and scour to
54:56
get certain prints of manuscripts and things like that that people want
55:00
Ryan: But that's cool though.
55:01
That's how you want it.
55:02
You want it to be
55:03
Kearns: That's how he wants it.
55:04
Ryan: You--
55:05
Jon: Mm-hmm
55:05
Kearns: Yep.
55:05
Ryan: you want it to be a
55:06
Kearns: Well, he-- it's also, it's a hodgepodge of just him
55:10
clawing his way through his career.
55:12
Jon: Yeah
55:13
Kearns: like, it's like Brian Keene too, just the guy's been around forever writing
55:18
Jon: Mm-hmm.
55:19
Mm-hmm.
55:20
Yeah, I, I think this is just the way he wants it.
55:22
I don't think he wants to be a huge mainstream star.
55:26
Kearns: No,
55:26
Jon: I think he's happy…
55:27
Kearns: rich, but he definitely doesn't wanna be
55:29
Jon: Mm-hmm.
55:30
Yeah, for sure
55:32
Kearns: Now this is the guy who wrote Bubba Ho-Tep, listeners, by the way.
55:35
So this
55:35
Jon: Yeah.
55:35
Kearns: what we're talking about.
55:36
This
55:37
Jon: Yeah
55:37
Kearns: guy, and we did that movie
55:39
Jon: Yep.
55:40
Ryan: episode
55:41
Jon: Godzilla's 12-step program, have you read that?
55:44
Oh my
55:45
Kearns: I am not.
55:46
Godzilla.
55:47
Jon: amazing.
55:47
Kearns: down here a
55:48
Jon: Godzilla's in like, he's in like a recovery group for destroying cities.
55:53
Kearns: That's amazing.
55:54
Jon: It's, he, he's got like a nine to five and stuff.
55:57
Like it's, it's so funny.
55:58
It's so bizarre.
56:00
Like, but that's, that's what Lansdale is.
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Like at his best he's like bizarre and funny, and he can be scary and riveting.
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Like, he does all those things in just this like sort of weird fashion
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Kearns: Mm-hmm.
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Agreed.
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All right, guys.
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I think it's about time to wrap up Tucker & Dale.
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We ready to do some top fives, gentlemen?
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Ryan: Top
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Jon: we are
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Ryan: Oh man,
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Kearns: All right
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Ryan: Oh man, we're taking a trip on my top fives.
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We're gonna do horror in the boonies, and we're gonna start off with number
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five, and that is 2001 Maniacs from 2005.
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It is a remake of a 1964 film, about a group of college kids
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who get detoured to a peaceful Southern town in Pleasant Valley.
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And let's just say these Southerners are not as friendly as we get to learn out.
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They are ghosts of a former Confederate town still fighting
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the good war in the Civil.
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But, you know, check out the
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Jon: Mm-hmm.
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Ryan: It's fun.
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It's a B movie slasher.
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Just enjoy it.
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And that leads to my number four, Silent House.
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I don't know if Have you seen Silent House?
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Jon: Not sure.
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Ryan: 2011, uh, psychological horror film starring Elizabeth Olsen, focuses
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on a young woman who is terrorized in her family vacation home while cleaning
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the property with her father and uncle.
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There's a lot of twists and turns.
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I saw this actually in theaters, and,
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Jon: Hmm.
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Ryan: the theater experience, I mean, as a college student, I was like, "Okay, this
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isn't… It's okay." But as I re-watch it later on, it's a pretty deep psychological
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film with a good twist and turn in it.
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I don't wanna give
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Jon: Mm-hmm.
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Ryan: much away, but it's very, um… It's like a good mix of fast pace and slow
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pace with the dark shadows and the lights of the house, which is pretty unique.
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And that gets to number three.
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we know someone who loves this film, and that's Wrong Turn.
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I mean, Wrong Turn, y- you know, Desmond Harrington, Eli- Eliza Dushku.
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Turn kinda, like, nails the whole boonie expertise of 2003, and
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it's just… It's a cult film.
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It's a great B movie.
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follows a group of six individuals being stalked by deformed, inbred,
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cannibalistic mountain men in the woods of West Virginia.
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And make a wrong turn, guys.
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Never in the boonies, never in the city.
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But if you always find a last house on the left, you should always
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visit it, and that's number two.
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And I'm going with the original Wes Craven version.
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Picked that up at a Walmart for five bucks.
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It was worth it.
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Uh, the whole idea follows Mari, who is and things happen to her,
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the fugitives kinda, like, leave her in a river, and found by her
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parents, who take bloody revenge.
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And the original one done by Wes Craven, again, his first film.
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It hits everything that you'd want from a Wes Craven film, and it's
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a good start for his long career.
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Which leads to number one, the original boonie feature I feel, uh, that kinda took
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it to a step higher, and that's Evil Dead.
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Kearns: Mm-hmm.
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Ryan: I can't r- you know, I can explain it as much.
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We all know the story.
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You know, four members, they through a demonic depression
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after reading the Necronomicon, and Ash Williams saves the day.
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And just to give it a little bit of a nod, on July 10th,
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we're gonna get Evil Dead burn.
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Around that time we're gonna be covering Evil Dead Rise, which is excellent.
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So if you haven't seen Evil Dead Rise yet, watch it before watching the podcast,
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or watch the podcast and watch the film.
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But that's my top five of horror movies in the boonies.
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Hills Have Eyes was on there, but I feel like that's more in the desert.
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It's not really boonies,
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Jon: Mm-hmm.
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Ryan: you know?
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Jon: Yeah.
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Yeah, I'll give you that one.
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I wouldn't… Yeah
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Ryan: I was thinking about it, but I was like, "Eh, I, I can't make…" You
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know, when I think of boonie, something, you know, of like the woods and,
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Jon: Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah.
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Ryan: But what
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Jon: Not The Wastelands.
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Oh, my,
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Ryan: Did you
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Jon: top five.
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Ryan: Did you do the
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Jon: No.
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Ryan: No?
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Jon: No, I couldn't, but I wanted
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I wanted to do top five wood chippers so bad, but I just
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couldn't come up with five of them.
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It w- it was a s- it was a struggle.
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Ryan: We
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Jon: So
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Ryan: some.
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Come on
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Jon: yeah,
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Ryan: were
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Jon: yeah.
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But like there is like, I think there's a movie called Wood Chipper
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Massacre that I haven't seen, so I, I d- I like to generally, like
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my top fives are movies I've seen.
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I don't, I don't wanna like, I don't wanna recommend stuff just based on
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like other people's recommendations.
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So I instead went with five underrated, underseen horror comedies.
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Ryan: Ooh
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Jon: I'm gonna start with an honorable mention, which was originally my
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number one, but I, I s- I've started to feel like it's at least properly
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rated now, and that's Idle Hands.
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I know for a while people had forgotten about Idle Hands and how good that
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one is and how fun that one is.
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But I think it's, it got a nice shout release.
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It's, it's come back into consciousness.
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I think it's due a… Like I think it's properly rated now.
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But my number five is definitely underrated.
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my number five also used to be one of my like movie friend group initiation movies.
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Like if you could sit through this movie, we can hang.
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it's a movie I blind bought at a convention from one of
1:01:45
the actors, Wayne Johnson.
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He was just at Monster Mania one time, and like he, when he meets you, he acts like
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he's known you forever, to the point where I like, I was like, "Do I know this guy?
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I feel like I know you.
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Why do I… Like, you're talking to me like we've met 100 times." And this,
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the movie is called Night of Something Strange, and it is a tough watch.
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It's funny.
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It's a tough watch because it is gory, it is gross.
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so if a killer STD and zombies sound like a good time, then
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this is the movie for you.
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Um, sp- spring break is derailed for a group of young people when one of
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them contracts an STD in a bathroom.
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those with the STD turn into hungry zombie-like creatures infecting others
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in more and more outrageous fashions.
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It's a wild ride.
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Like they, this and a movie called Miami Connection are like,
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have, have always been my movie initiations for f- for friends.
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And you guys are, you guys have dodged both, so there's a day coming
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where you guys are gonna get these.
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Y- I may not even tell you
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Kearns: Nice.
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Ryan: We'll just show up one day.
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Miami
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Kearns: Yeah, I'll
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Jon: Mm-hmm.
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My- Miami Connection is a mu- much different experience.
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Um, we'll talk about that another time.
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Kearns: I think gave me Miami Connection.
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I recognize the cover.
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Jon: I love Miami Connection.
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My number four, we're gonna visit, uh, the Broken Lizard group, and it's Club Dread.
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Ryan: Yes,
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Jon: Yes.
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Ryan: You don't
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Jon: I th- I
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Ryan: Brent
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Jon: It, it get, it, it gets sort of, sort of blotted out by
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the Super Troopers movies, which is getting a third this summer.
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Um, so Broken Lizard is known more for the Super Trooper movies.
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but in Club Dread they took on the horror comedy with what I
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think is really hilarious results.
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the fun in the sun at Coconut Pete's Resort is interrupted by a serial
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killer preying on the guests and staff.
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you get Bill Paxton doing his best Jimmy Buffett impersonation as Coconut Pete.
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You get, like, the whole Broken Lizard team and a bunch of, you
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know, Brittany Murphy's in there.
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Uh, there's a couple other people that pop up that you're like, "Oh,
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I know who that is." It's a lot.
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I love Club Dread.
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It's so much fun.
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I think, I think we're in the minority on that, Ryan, 'cause
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I know Allison doesn't like it.
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Kearns is not a fan.
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I love Club Dread
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Ryan: to see Kevin Heffernan in dreads, it's great.
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Jon: Mm-hmm.
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Kearns: A lot of
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Ryan: Farva
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Kearns: around in my seat in the theater in Club Dread.
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A, a dude slapped his friend at the end of that movie
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Ryan: Because they are that
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Kearns: when in the theater, 'cause they were that angry.
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Yeah, it was a college.
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We were at the theater, and stood up.
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Everybody's leaving.
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He's like, "Dude, no." He's like, "It's supposed to be good." And
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then he, he just slapped him.
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It's like, "Oh my God, this guy's mad." That was the same theater
1:04:41
where the Mystic River, um, Scary Movie 3 thing happened, by the way
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Jon: do you guys wanna make that our thing?
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If one of us recommends a movie that turns out being bad, they get slapped
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Kearns: I mean, maybe.
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It's just so easy to
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Jon: I feel like,
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Kearns: that with
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Jon: I feel like I'm g- I feel like I'm gonna get slapped a lot
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though, 'cause I'm d- I do a lot of the recommending around here
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Kearns: my
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Ryan: I like,
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Kearns: jawn up.
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Pew.
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Yeah, I haven't disliked a single one yet
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Ryan: only, the only one that I feel like, well, it wasn't really a
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recommendation, it was just on the list, was Fright Night 2, the remake
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Jon: Yeah.
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I mean, we had to though.
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We had to.
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Ryan: Yeah, I mean, it wasn't your recommendation, it was
1:05:20
just on the list, but everything
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Jon: Yeah
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Ryan: has been a hit
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Jon: Yeah.
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So we're now fully into the zombie portion of my top five because
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how can I make a list of anything without a, a zombie portion?
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Number three is a movie called Scout's Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse.
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Kearns: Hope
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Jon: Um, so when a zombie is inadvertently released from a lab,
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three teen Boy Scouts, two of whom would rather go to a party than be Boy
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Scouts anymore, are tasked with saving the town along with some classmates
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and the bartender from a strip club.
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And it- this gets wild.
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Some of the, zombie fights with, you know, adult toys and other things
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are just… It's just bonkers.
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I love it so much.
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It's another one of those you can put it on when you're feeling kinda down
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and just laugh and have a good time.
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Uh, as is my number two, which is also zombies.
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it's a movie called Cooties.
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Uh, this one has Elijah Wood, Rainn Wilson, and, uh, Leigh
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Whannell, who also, wrote it.
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so in Cooties, a cafeteria food-based zombie virus breaks out in an
1:06:35
elementary school, turning the students into flesh-hungry zombies.
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the misfit group of teachers are forced to defend themselves and
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attempt to escape from the starving students and, uh, it just goes wild.
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And like, I mean, if you find fights with kids to be particularly
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amusing like I do, this is for you.
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Like
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Kearns: horde of hungry elementary schoolers.
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This is teacher revenge porn.
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Jon: Yeah, it is.
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Yeah, it is.
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And my number one, I believe I talked about in one of our
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first, like, five or so episodes.
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I think this was in, um, our zombieology episode.
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My number one is a Cuban movie called Juan of the Dead.
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Ryan: Yes.
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Kearns: Yes.
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Jon: Mm-hmm.
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Ryan: time
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Jon: So Juan of the Dead.
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When zombies rise in Cuba, the government and media organizations
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blame dissidents revolting against the communist government, but Juan
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and his slacker friends know better.
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Juan decides to profit from the crisis and opens a zombie removal service.
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but quickly he and his friends realize the situation is out of hand, and
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now they have to escape from Cuba in the most Cuban fashion possible
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Kearns: Hmm.
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Which is?
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Jon: Improvised rafts.
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Ryan: Okay
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Jon: Yep.
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Yep.
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And it's just great.
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I l- I, I- It's so criminally underseen.
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Wand of the Dead is a good time.
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Like, I don't even know if it's in print right now.
1:08:25
I have a Blu-ray copy.
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I went looking this afternoon for a 4K, and it, that definitely doesn't exist,
1:08:32
and it doesn't seem like the disc itself is available anywhere, but oh my goodness
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Kearns: Great.
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Love it.
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All right.
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top fives, gentlemen
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Ryan: Thank you
1:08:46
Jon: And I liked it
1:08:46
Kearns: up our Tucker Dale episode, everybody.
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So if you haven't seen it and you listen to this, you did it in the wrong order.
1:08:53
Go watch it.
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But,
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Jon: Watch it
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Kearns: but yeah, it is an enjoyable film.
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Glad we
1:09:00
Jon: It's a good team.
1:09:03
Yes
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Kearns: Right.
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So with that, see you later
1:09:09
Ryan: a good one
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Jon: There you are