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287: Revisiting Sid Haig · Movie Meltdown

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  Speaker 1: Ah, shit the bed!
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  Speaker 2: Why, howdy, folks!
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  Speaker 3: Come on in!
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  Speaker 4: Well, from the looks of them fancy britches and sassy
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  Speaker 4: little hairdos, y'all ain't from around.
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  Speaker 2: Here, are ya? This is Sid Hagan. You're fucking around
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  Speaker 2: with Movie Meltdown.
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  Speaker 5: Why don't you just take your mama home some chicken
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  Speaker 6: and parental discretion is advised. It's showtime, folks.
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  Speaker 3: Enjoy the show.
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  Speaker 7: Our nuclear reactor pumping out one million kilowatts of power.
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  Speaker 8: What's up, and welcome to Movie Meltdown. I'm Brian, and
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  Speaker 8: this week we're going to be debuting one of those
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  Speaker 8: shorter episodes we're going to be working in. Maybe we'll
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  Speaker 8: call them Fun Size. I mean, we are heading towards Halloween.
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  Speaker 9: And what better time to.
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  Speaker 8: Talk to someone who is not only a horror icon.
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  Speaker 9: But as.
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  Speaker 8: Far as I'm concerned, a film legend. Sid Haig has
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  Speaker 8: been in so many cool movies over the years, it's astounding.
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  Speaker 8: Not to mention his number of TV appearances and the
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  Speaker 8: hardcore fan.
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  Speaker 9: Base he's built over the years.
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  Speaker 8: He's a legend and one I consider myself lucky to
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  Speaker 8: have sat down and talked with. And actually, lucky enough
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  Speaker 8: to talk with him more than once. Which I'll go
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  Speaker 8: into more in a minute here. But I did want
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  Speaker 8: to say, the bulk of the first part of the interview,
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  Speaker 8: I'm not thrilled with the sound quality. I just wanted
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  Speaker 8: to say that beforehand. But it's such a cool interview
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  Speaker 8: that I wanted to share it with you. It's one
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  Speaker 8: that I'm glad you put together. But keep in mind,
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  Speaker 8: as you'll hear me state in a minute, it was
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  Speaker 8: at the time meant to be recorded just to be
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  Speaker 8: used for a print interview. So it wasn't planned out
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  Speaker 8: for it to sound good just to get Sid's quotes right.
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  Speaker 8: So there aren't any individual mics. It's not planned to
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  Speaker 8: block out any background noise. It's just a simple recorder
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  Speaker 8: set on the table between us. I've worked with a
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  Speaker 8: file and tried to clean up the sound as best
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  Speaker 8: I could, but there's really only so much you can
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  Speaker 8: do when you.
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  Speaker 9: Start from a limited situation.
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  Speaker 8: But it's an interesting interview, and we learned some really
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  Speaker 8: cool things about Sid, some of which I didn't know
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  Speaker 8: anything about, and will probably be.
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  Speaker 9: News to some of you as well.
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  Speaker 8: So we'll cut away here for a minute, and as
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  Speaker 8: we come back, you'll hear me describing the scenario to Lucy.
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  Speaker 8: That same day that we sat down with Sid, we
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  Speaker 8: did this little intro here, and I explained to her
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  Speaker 8: how the first interview came about, and then we'll kind
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  Speaker 8: of wrap up with a new piece of the interview.
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  Speaker 8: So we'll be back in a minute and get into
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  Speaker 8: our discussion with Lucy as we get into the interview
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  Speaker 8: with Sid.
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  Speaker 7: The mama said, come repeat the sound.
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  Speaker 8: So the other thing I came here specifically to do
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  Speaker 8: was talk to Sid Haig. And just sort of round
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  Speaker 8: out this ongoing, not so real relationship.
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  Speaker 9: But in a press sense.
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  Speaker 8: He was actually, when I first started doing print interviews,
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  Speaker 8: he was one of the first ones I was like, okay,
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  Speaker 8: I need to talk to him.
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  Speaker 9: It's like just looking back.
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  Speaker 8: Well, at the time, he broke a few years before
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  Speaker 8: that back end with all the Rob Zombie stuff. And
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  Speaker 8: I think maybe they'd already done Devil's Rejects. But either way,
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  Speaker 8: it's like he just sort of found this new wave
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  Speaker 8: of popularity. But then I remember going back and just
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  Speaker 8: looking at that backlog of stuff that he'd done and
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  Speaker 8: just being amazed by these hundreds of TV appearances and
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  Speaker 8: all these really cool B-movies and exploitation movies that are
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  Speaker 8: totally forgotten about by like, the real world.
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  Speaker 9: But, like, the movie geeks still, like, find this.
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  Speaker 8: And it's, like, it's just this list of them that are, like,
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  Speaker 8: some of the biggest and most ridiculous, crazy, like, B-movies you.
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  Speaker 12: Could ever want.
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  Speaker 8: And he's, like, in so many of them. So it's, like,
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  Speaker 8: just that kind of career.
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  Speaker 9: It's, like, that's cool. And I want to find out
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  Speaker 9: more about this guy.
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  Speaker 8: So I actually like years ago set up a print
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  Speaker 8: interview and I haven't done anything with it on the show.
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  Speaker 8: And I've been kind of waiting to sort of just
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  Speaker 8: have another piece to sort of cap it off because
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  Speaker 8: it's not really long. And as I throw it in here,
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  Speaker 8: it's the sound is not going to be great because
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  Speaker 8: this is years and years ago.
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  Speaker 9: This is quite a while back.
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  Speaker 8: And this was I'll go with recorders. This is three
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  Speaker 8: recorders ago. since I've upgraded many times over the years
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  Speaker 8: and every step of the way, winging it sound-wise, which
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  Speaker 8: I'm sure anybody that listens to the show knows.
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  Speaker 9: It's only in the last couple.
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  Speaker 8: Of years do I feel like we have pieced together
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  Speaker 8: a good way to do these things. It's, yeah, it's
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  Speaker 8: such a nightmare switching from one location to the next.
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  Speaker 8: So it's been a learning process and this is the
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  Speaker 8: early stages. So you'll hear it as we get into this.
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  Speaker 8: But I did want to include it somewhere along the way.
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  Speaker 8: I've been kind of like, I need to get that
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  Speaker 8: in there because it's really... interesting because I start off
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  Speaker 8: like way at the beginning even then like I do
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  Speaker 8: now with people I'm just like let's start you know
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  Speaker 8: really early and figure out how you get to your
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  Speaker 8: level of stardom or whatever career path you've chosen and
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  Speaker 8: his is not where I expected it to start and
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  Speaker 8: yeah it was kind of interesting listening to him talk
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  Speaker 8: about those early days so yeah I guess we'll go
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  Speaker 8: ahead and throw in this early clip of him and
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  Speaker 8: then we'll come back and I'll round it out with
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  Speaker 8: a little bit that.
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  Speaker 9: We did today.
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  Speaker 7: A lot of people don't realize how you started off
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  Speaker 7: in music.
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  Speaker 3: You kind of started that way professionally.
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  Speaker 7: How did you get into that?
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  Speaker 10: When I was like nine years old, I just showed
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  Speaker 10: an interest in music. I started a little elementary.
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  Speaker 3: School band, and I did that thing. My parents kind
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  Speaker 3: of got tired.
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  Speaker 10: Of me beating up all the pots and pans and everything,
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  Speaker 10: so they had a friend who was an old drummer
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  Speaker 10: that was looking to get rid of his trap set.
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  Speaker 3: And so they bought that. It just kind of evolved.
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  Speaker 10: So it was all the way through my school years,
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  Speaker 10: through high school and everything else that.
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  Speaker 3: I was involved in.
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  Speaker 10: Playing in the orchestra, playing in the marching band, playing
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  Speaker 10: in the museum.
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  Speaker 3: I was playing every opportunity I had.
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  Speaker 10: And formed a band when I was in high school.
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  Speaker 10: And like a year after that, graduation that signed to
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  Speaker 10: a contract for Keen Records, Sam Cooke's label.
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  Speaker 3: And things kind of took off from there.
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  Speaker 10: Crooked Managers, Crooked Record Company, Crooked Man with a Crooked
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  Speaker 10: Stick with a Crooked Dog, And I just said.
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  Speaker 3: You know, what the hell with this? Music. Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Did you guys try to find a recording contractor?
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  Speaker 3: They just heard you out there. They heard, yeah, they
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  Speaker 3: heard us.
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  Speaker 10: A friend of my father's had a recording studio. And
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  Speaker 10: he listened to us. And he said, you know, you
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  Speaker 10: guys want to practice in the studio.
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  Speaker 3: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 10: And gave me the key to the studio, so that
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  Speaker 10: was kind of cool. And then he heard us one
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  Speaker 10: night and decided to cut a demo, did that, and
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  Speaker 10: then he basically sold the contract to Keen. Then you
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  Speaker 10: enrolled in Pasadena Playhouse. What was that experience like?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: A friend of mine and I were standing outside my
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  Speaker 10: parents' house trying to figure out what we were going
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  Speaker 10: to do with our miserable lives, and he suggested that
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  Speaker 10: I go to the Pasadena Playhouse.
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  Speaker 3: I had no idea what it was, so I checked
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  Speaker 3: it out. I said, oh yeah, this sounds like the
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  Speaker 3: kind of place for me. So I did that, and.
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  Speaker 10: It was two years of doctor's help, okay? Because the
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  Speaker 10: first class in the morning was like 7.30 and you
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  Speaker 10: never got home to do any of your homework or
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  Speaker 10: anything else until about 11.30 that night. And that went
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  Speaker 10: on for two years, okay? Yeah, it was pretty hardcore.
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  Speaker 10: But it gave you the discipline.
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  Speaker 3: That you need to be in this business.
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  Speaker 10: There were no little stars on your doors or anything
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  Speaker 10: like that, okay? You were just a grunt, being a can. Yeah,
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  Speaker 10: he was.
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  Speaker 7: I guess for a very good reason, because you were
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  Speaker 7: definitely a busy, working actor for many years.
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  Speaker 13: Did you enjoy that life as just being a working actor? Yeah,
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  Speaker 13: that's what I wanted to be, you know, a working actor.
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  Speaker 13: I had no stars in my eyes, still don't. I
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  Speaker 13: knew that there was no glamour, there were no limousines
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  Speaker 13: or bright lights, you know. That was just a show
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  Speaker 13: that happened every once in a while.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So my goal was to just become a working man
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  Speaker 3: when I was.
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  Speaker 10: Absolutely. And I worked myself out of business.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: I had to restart my career like four times. Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: Because I was just working too much and people got
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  Speaker 10: tired of looking at me.
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  Speaker 3: Well, studios got tired of looking at me. Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: So many of them.
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  Speaker 10: So.
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  Speaker 3: But now things are different.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Now I call the shots. Definitely.
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  Speaker 7: Well, that was, yeah, what I was wondering was the
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  Speaker 7: way you always used to get cast. I mean, being
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  Speaker 7: an intelligent man and being a well-trained actor, how you
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  Speaker 7: felt about continuing to get cast as a thug over
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  Speaker 7: the years.
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  Speaker 3: It got real tiring. Yeah. Okay. And so at one point,
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  Speaker 3: I think it was in 92? Yeah. I just said,
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: you know what? If these guys.
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  Speaker 10: Can't figure out that I can do more than stick
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  Speaker 10: a gun in somebody's face, I'm.
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  Speaker 3: Out of here. So I left.
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  Speaker 10: And I got a call from Quentin Tarantino one day.
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  Speaker 10: Still don't know how he got my number. And said,
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  Speaker 10: I know all about, you don't want to do heavy, blah, blah, blah,
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  Speaker 10: all that stuff. I've written a part for you in
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  Speaker 10: Jackie Brown. He's the judge. Totally different. and you will
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  Speaker 10: do it okay and that was cool it was a
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  Speaker 10: good feeling to know that somebody could figure out that
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  Speaker 10: I could do more than what I was doing And then,
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  Speaker 10: of course, House of a Thousand Corpses came by and
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  Speaker 10: that was, now we're.
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  Speaker 3: Looking at history.
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  Speaker 7: At that point, what did you think of Captain Spalding
• 17:31
  Speaker 7: the first time you read that novel?
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  Speaker 3: Well, the way that I got.
• 17:34
  Speaker 10: It was that my agent Gave me a call and said,
• 17:38
  Speaker 10: go to this office building, sign a letter of non-disclosure,
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  Speaker 10: take the script home, read it, if you like it,
• 17:45
  Speaker 10: the part is yours. So I did that, and I said, oh, geez,
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  Speaker 10: I could have a lot of fun with this. So
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  Speaker 10: I said, yeah, let's do it. And then, after, it
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  Speaker 10: was like the day after the premiere, I got a
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  Speaker 10: call from Robb.
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  Speaker 3: He said, I don't have a lot of time to talk.
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  Speaker 10: I got a reporter from Variety on the line.
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  Speaker 3: If there's a sequel, will you do it? And I said, yes.
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  Speaker 3: He said, okay, I'll talk to you later. Bye.
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  Speaker 7: As you were reading it, or at least kind of
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  Speaker 7: getting familiar with the character, did you realize how much
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  Speaker 7: impact it would have on your career at the moment?
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  Speaker 3: No, I just thought it would be something I wanted
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  Speaker 3: to do.
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  Speaker 7: Hector Spalding has a very interesting manner of speaking and
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  Speaker 7: a lot of interesting terminology and just the way that
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  Speaker 7: he speaks is it something that you came up with
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  Speaker 7: or was it Rob or how did his mannerisms kind
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  Speaker 7: of come into play?
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  Speaker 3: Rob gave the character a great skeleton yeah okay.
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  Speaker 10: And years of hanging out in biker bars and redneck
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  Speaker 10: bars and all of that stuff um And being a
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  Speaker 10: farm boy, okay, I was able to bring that culture
• 19:02
  Speaker 10: into the character.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, it's sometimes frightening to a lot of people when
• 19:08
  Speaker 7: they're out there.
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  Speaker 3: They have no idea.
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  Speaker 7: They're not trying to do that.
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  Speaker 3: They just are.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Like the ship that they're flying that now haunts you.
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  Speaker 3: Where did that come from? That just came out of
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  Speaker 3: my head.
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  Speaker 10: It was something that I had probably heard a lot.
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  Speaker 3: And there it was.
• 19:30
  Speaker 10: And now, it was like maybe two or three months
• 19:34
  Speaker 10: after the film was released, I got an email from
• 19:36
  Speaker 10: a guy who said that that.
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: Phrase had become.
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  Speaker 10: the official phrase of the college that he was going to. Okay.
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: It says a lot about that. Yeah, right.
• 19:51
  Speaker 7: Before the House of the Thousand Quirks came out, what
• 19:57
  Speaker 7: were your feelings on clowns?
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  Speaker 3: You know, I never got the whole clown phobia thing,
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  Speaker 3: you know.
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  Speaker 10: Clowns were funny. They were funny, they were stupid, they were,
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  Speaker 10: you know, whatever. But to me, they were never scary.
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  Speaker 10: Has it changed since you've become well-known.
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  Speaker 3: In the maker?
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  Speaker 7: Your feelings towards it anyway?
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  Speaker 3: Uh, geez, I love them, you know? Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, they're keeping beans on my plate.
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  Speaker 3: So it's, you know, it's all good. It's Jesus, you know?
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  Speaker 10: And, you know, nobody can predict this kind of stuff. And,
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  Speaker 10: I mean, when they told us that we were going
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  Speaker 10: to have action figures, I went, what? These guys are
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  Speaker 10: despicable people. We're going to have action figures?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay. And to date, I think I.
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  Speaker 10: Have ten different models. Okay, and now there's some guy in...
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  Speaker 10: In the UK, that's done a Captain Spalding bust.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: They're selling it here at this convention. It's amazing. It's
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  Speaker 3: the sign of the time. Yeah, yeah. But, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I think the thing that is appealing to the character
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  Speaker 3: is that he's fearless.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 10: He doesn't take any shit from anybody, okay? You stick
• 21:25
  Speaker 10: a gun in his face, he'll stick a chicken leg
• 21:27
  Speaker 10: in yours, okay? And then wind up killing you, you know?
• 21:33
  Speaker 10: And I think, you know, people get pushed around a
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  Speaker 10: lot in our society. And so they can really identify.
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  Speaker 3: With somebody who refuses to get pushed around.
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  Speaker 8: But yeah, I didn't know about the music aspect at
• 22:09
  Speaker 8: all until I started going into that.
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  Speaker 9: And I think that's something that even a lot.
• 22:13
  Speaker 8: Of people that are fans of his movies probably have
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  Speaker 8: no idea that he started off in music and was
• 22:19
  Speaker 8: such a well-trained actor in the early days when he
• 22:22
  Speaker 8: gets reduced to so many thug roles. So yeah, I
• 22:25
  Speaker 8: thought that was really interesting. But it's still just sort
• 22:28
  Speaker 8: of like it was relatively short and didn't have.
• 22:32
  Speaker 9: sort of an end.
• 22:33
  Speaker 8: So these years I've been trying to get back to,
• 22:36
  Speaker 8: I wanted to talk to him about Spider Baby specifically.
• 22:40
  Speaker 8: So this is a heads up for all of you guys.
• 22:42
  Speaker 8: We're going to do a Spider Baby episode. So just
• 22:45
  Speaker 8: find yourself a copy now. We've got, I got some
• 22:48
  Speaker 8: stories from him today about Spider Baby. So we're definitely
• 22:50
  Speaker 8: going to come back to those. But I also just
• 22:52
  Speaker 8: wanted to sort of cap off his whole thing. So
• 22:56
  Speaker 8: we're going to go to that now. And it's sort
• 22:58
  Speaker 8: of more of a a wrap up on his career
• 23:01
  Speaker 8: and like just his life.
• 23:02
  Speaker 9: In general and his advice for others. You've been doing
• 23:13
  Speaker 9: this for quite a while now, uh, midway.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, you've, I know I've heard you tell the
• 23:17
  Speaker 8: stories of your ups and downs professionally over the years,
• 23:20
  Speaker 8: midway in, would you have chosen something different, you know,
• 23:23
  Speaker 8: midway in on the rough times where you like, I
• 23:25
  Speaker 8: should have gotten become a carpenter or something, but. I
• 23:28
  Speaker 8: don't know, what is your take on the long haul
• 23:30
  Speaker 8: of being a performer?
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: Well, the thing is I had a passion for it, okay?
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: Was I happy with the kind of work that I
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: was being offered?
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: No.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: But I was being offered work, and it's something that
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: I love to do. And my message to everybody, and
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: I don't care if it's in show business or selling
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: cars or whatever, if you have a passion for it,
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: then you can't quit. You just have to keep going.
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  Speaker 2: Keep your head high, keep moving forward, and eventually it'll
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: all come together.
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  Speaker 3: Very cool.
• 24:07
  Speaker 8: Do you have anything to pass along that you're working
• 24:09
  Speaker 8: on to let people know about?
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: I have got a film, hopefully going to be released
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: fairly soon, called High on the Hog. And I'm really
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: kind of excited about that because it was my first
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: production job. working on the film and the crew was
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: very energetic and wanted to really do a good job
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: but they were a little hazy on what the job
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: was so I went to the executive producer and I
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: said you know you need a producer in here that
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: can with some organizational skills that can tell these people
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: what it is that they need to know and so
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: he said well will you do it and I said
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: well you got my agent's number and the next day
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: I was a producer Very nice.
• 24:56
  Speaker 8: So still moving into new territory as you go on.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: Got to keep stretching, man. You got to keep growing.
• 25:03
  Speaker 9: So next you'll be directing.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: And I've done that. Only a whole lot of commercials
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: and some documentaries.
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: But yeah.
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 25:13
  Speaker 9: Well, thanks for talking to us today.
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: Hi, this is Dick Miller, and you're listening to Movie Meltdown.
• 25:29
  Speaker 6: The girls of the big dollhouse are busting out again.
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: New World Pictures now brings you The Big Birdcage, an
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: incredible new adventure of beautiful young girls in chains. to
• 25:43
  Speaker 6: every whim and desire of a cruel madman.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Oh, please, take somebody else this time.
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: See the terrible machine that maims tender young bodies and
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: cripples innocent young minds. See the strange and brutal world
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: of men who are only half men and women who
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: are more than all women.
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: Captive women, their.
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: Natural desires stifled to the bursting point, finally erupting in
• 26:11
  Speaker 6: a scorching climax of violence.
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: So hot with desire.
• 26:16
  Speaker 6: They melt the chains that bind them in The Big Birdcage.
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: See The Big Birdcage in color rated R.
• 26:30
  Speaker 8: So I do want to say thank you once again
• 26:31
  Speaker 8: to Sid for sitting down with me, not just this week,
• 26:34
  Speaker 8: but the first time around there as well. He's a
• 26:37
  Speaker 8: fascinating guy. Go out there and support him.
• 26:39
  Speaker 9: See his movies.
• 26:40
  Speaker 8: You heard the projects he's got in the works now,
• 26:42
  Speaker 8: so go check those out. If you see him at
• 26:44
  Speaker 8: a convention, go out there. He's well worth the money.
• 26:47
  Speaker 8: I was actually surprised how little he was charging for
• 26:50
  Speaker 8: the awesome movies he's in and the body of work
• 26:53
  Speaker 8: that he has built over the years.
• 26:56
  Speaker 9: To me, he was not charging that much.
• 26:57
  Speaker 8: So my advice to you is go get him to
• 27:00
  Speaker 8: sign a post or get a picture from him. He's
• 27:03
  Speaker 8: a really cool guy and it was great to get
• 27:05
  Speaker 8: a chance to talk to him and you should go
• 27:06
  Speaker 8: talk to him too.
• 27:07
  Speaker 9: So find out where he's going to be this next year.
• 27:09
  Speaker 8: I'm sure he'll make several convention stops and go out
• 27:11
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• 27:12
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• 27:14
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• 27:17
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• 27:19
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• 27:21
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• 27:29
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• 27:32
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• 27:34
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• 28:10
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• 28:13
  Speaker 8: thought we would go out this episode, the only way
• 28:16
  Speaker 8: we really can go out this episode, and it took
• 28:18
  Speaker 8: a little digging to find, this is not the easiest
• 28:21
  Speaker 8: single to come across these days, but I did find
• 28:24
  Speaker 8: a version of the 1958 song Full House performed by
• 28:27
  Speaker 8: the T-Birds with Sid Haig on drums. So we'll close
• 28:31
  Speaker 8: things out with the T-Birds featuring Sid Haig.
• 28:34
  Speaker 9: Otherwise, that about does it. We will return next time,
• 28:36
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• 28:37
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