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Fantasy Video Store · Movie Meltdown

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  Speaker 1: I don't know why my phone fills the need to
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  Speaker 1: keep updating me about what NFL games are on.
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  Speaker 2: Like as a joke?
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  Speaker 1: I guess.
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  Speaker 2: Your phone thinks that's hilarious. I'm going to tell them
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  Speaker 2: about football. Hi everybody, I'm Rick Randall and this is
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  Speaker 2: This is PJ Souls and you are totally listening to
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  Speaker 2: Movie Meltdown.
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  Speaker 1: It's showtime, folks.
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  Speaker 4: Enjoy the show.
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  Speaker 5: Our nuclear reactor pumping out one million kilowatts of power.
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  Speaker 5: to provide more cooling in the containment chamber.
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  Speaker 4: To your stations, we have a movie meltdown.
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  Speaker 2: Why are you messing with the fantasy? We know about
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  Speaker 2: the reality. Don't ruin the fantasy, okay? What's up, and
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  Speaker 2: welcome to Movie Meltdown. I'm Brian. I'm Nora.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm Phillip.
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  Speaker 2: And we're coming to you live via digital recording back.
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  Speaker 4: At the old.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see, I think I... I think I landed more.
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  Speaker 2: I like the oddity manner. That sounds a little more classy. So, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We'll just go with that. You've seen it on your YouTubes.
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  Speaker 2: It's sprawling mansion. We haven't even gotten to the basement yet.
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  Speaker 2: Because I can't build that. It's going to cost a fortune.
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  Speaker 2: I've got it planned in my head. But it's going
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  Speaker 2: to take a while to finish building my basement. So,
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  Speaker 2: until then, it's just a hole. Just digging a hole.
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  Speaker 2: As we expand this ever-expansive universe. The Meltdown universe. It's
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  Speaker 2: kind of like the MCU, but, you know. I can't
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  Speaker 2: get Chris Evans to come over. I keep telling him,
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  Speaker 2: come on, man. Anyway, so, we are back. And with
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  Speaker 2: a very special project this week. And I'm glad I'm
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  Speaker 2: not totally alone in my insanity. Because you both took
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  Speaker 2: to this idea way better than I expected. And Philip,
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  Speaker 2: this is maybe the most excited I've ever seen you.
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  Speaker 1: It felt like you were trying to talk us out
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  Speaker 1: of it at parts after we were already like, no,
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  Speaker 1: we're doing this, Brian.
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  Speaker 2: I just assumed everyone else, because this, this concept, I'm
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  Speaker 2: not joking, came to me in a dream. And here's
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  Speaker 2: the really weird part for me. I don't have dreams. Like,
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  Speaker 2: in life i realized it's because i'm dead inside so
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  Speaker 2: for years now like when i was younger maybe i
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  Speaker 2: remember having weird dreams when i was a kid but
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  Speaker 2: like in a long time i don't really have dreams
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  Speaker 2: at all there have been a for a long time
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  Speaker 2: there was like a stretch of like 10 years it's
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  Speaker 2: just nothing like so i was just like i'm dead
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  Speaker 2: inside that's that's all there is to it But every
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  Speaker 2: once in a while, recently, I'm like, oh, hey, there
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  Speaker 2: was something odd going on in my head that I
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  Speaker 2: was unconscious for. Usually it's just the ones going on
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  Speaker 2: while I'm awake. But occasionally there's something weird. I'll wake
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  Speaker 2: up and be like, oh, there you go. I had something.
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  Speaker 2: I guess that was like a dream. This one was
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  Speaker 2: like a week or so ago or whenever I told
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  Speaker 2: you about this. It had just happened recently. Now, this
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  Speaker 2: is the ridiculous part, that even within my dream, it's
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  Speaker 2: still just me talking with dorks. So, again, I don't
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  Speaker 2: enter into some weird escapist fantasy realm. I was in
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  Speaker 2: a video store talking to the other people that worked
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  Speaker 2: in the video store about this dumb game or whatever
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  Speaker 2: the hell it is we're about to do. That's what...
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  Speaker 2: What was happening? Was this exact same thing that's happening
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  Speaker 2: right here was also happening with other dorks in the dream?
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  Speaker 2: How many layers, how many inception levels of dorkiness is
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  Speaker 2: going on here?
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  Speaker 1: But see, that's not far from how it would have
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  Speaker 1: been when you did work at the video store.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. That's what was weird about it
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  Speaker 2: is it wasn't one of those that's like a weird
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  Speaker 2: memory version of your dream. It was a video store
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  Speaker 2: that I did not recognize. None of the people I
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  Speaker 2: worked with did I know. Like it was just everything
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  Speaker 2: else about it was random, but like everything... of the
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  Speaker 2: basic concept felt like very familiar of like, Oh yep.
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  Speaker 2: Standing around talking about movies with other dork side. Yep.
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  Speaker 2: All right. So as I woke up, surprisingly, I remembered
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  Speaker 2: the basics of this, including a few selections on mine
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  Speaker 2: that I'm like, well, I got to keep with that.
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  Speaker 2: I guess my unconscious mind decided this was important. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: like almost the entire little concept was fully formed when
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  Speaker 2: I woke up and I was like, I guess we're
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  Speaker 2: doing an episode on this. But I assumed everyone I
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  Speaker 2: knew would have sense enough to be like, look, you weirdo.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously we're not doing that. And then you two got
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  Speaker 2: excited about it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You're all crazy. So the idea is, and this, this
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  Speaker 2: is what I think is a little weird. Cause I
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  Speaker 2: was then trying to like present what, what is it?
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  Speaker 2: And much as you are a huge NFL fan, Phillip.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, obviously.
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  Speaker 2: It's almost like fantasy football. Except it's fantasy video store.
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  Speaker 2: If you are going to cast your own ultimate team
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  Speaker 2: to work in your video store, this is it. You
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  Speaker 2: can go. But we're not going to pick like your
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  Speaker 2: dorky friends. This is going to be not actors, characters
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  Speaker 2: from movies. You're free to roam through the... time and
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  Speaker 2: space and pick whoever you want. That's a character in
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  Speaker 2: the movie and then work them into your real world
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  Speaker 2: video store. None of this logically makes any sense and
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  Speaker 2: we don't care. So you are a manager of and
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  Speaker 2: or owner of this rental store. Um, I said it's
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  Speaker 2: essentially in the mid eighties to the mid nineties, but
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  Speaker 2: really who cares? Again, none of these rules apply. So
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  Speaker 2: it could be on another planet in outer space for
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  Speaker 2: all we care. So you feel free to work that
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  Speaker 2: in if you'd like. um but yeah other than that
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  Speaker 2: that's that's pretty much all you need to do is
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  Speaker 2: just put yourself in charge of the store and start
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  Speaker 2: hiring people so of the basic ones do we want
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  Speaker 2: to like rotate around just to cover the basics and
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  Speaker 2: then all the loose craziness we'll just throw out there
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  Speaker 2: as we get to the end all right so the
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  Speaker 2: main things um at least to just sort of set
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  Speaker 2: the scene i figure you can decide if you care
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  Speaker 2: if you're a corporate chain or a mom and pop
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  Speaker 2: video store did anybody else even care i'm obviously mom
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  Speaker 2: and pop because that's you know that's the cool one
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  Speaker 2: if you ask me also mom and pop yeah yeah
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  Speaker 2: i mean we're we're a chain but i mean granted
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  Speaker 2: one of the ones.
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  Speaker 1: Franchisee franchise yeah i was.
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  Speaker 2: Like one of the ones i was at was a
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  Speaker 2: huge chain so like i i don't you know Totally
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  Speaker 2: speak ill of them. I have good memories of the chain.
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  Speaker 1: Like, I'm the franchise owner of a chain, if that
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  Speaker 1: makes sense. Like a Holiday Inn, if you will.
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  Speaker 2: That definitely. And that's, as I will make reference of
• 8:20
  Speaker 2: later in one of the tie-ins, I recently watched The
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  Speaker 2: Last Blockbuster. I don't know if you've heard about it.
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  Speaker 2: Heard of it. It's a documentary that just, well, they've
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  Speaker 2: been working on it for years, but they just recently
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  Speaker 2: released it. And it is out there streaming, and I
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  Speaker 2: heard about it and was like, that... Again, I wasn't
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  Speaker 2: a huge fan of the specifics of Blockbuster, but the
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  Speaker 2: concept sounded cool because it was.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, we can have our own episode of all the
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  Speaker 1: bad things about Blockbuster.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, most definitely.
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  Speaker 1: Although I was very glad it was around.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I still... occasionally went to them again
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  Speaker 2: i rarely rented stuff like i was the kind of
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  Speaker 2: dork who would just go to a video store and
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  Speaker 2: wander around for a while and then leave i wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: even necessarily in fact i used to do that a
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  Speaker 2: lot to a specific one because i worked nearby and
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  Speaker 2: i was like i don't know i i'm poor now
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  Speaker 2: much like then so i didn't have money to go
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  Speaker 2: buy lunch so like usually my lunch would consist of
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  Speaker 2: me going to the video store and wandering through And
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  Speaker 2: looking at movies, I'm like, oh, I haven't heard of
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  Speaker 2: this one. Oh, I need to watch this one. And
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  Speaker 2: that was my, that was my, yeah, that's my life. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: but that one was, that one was sort of a chain.
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  Speaker 2: And Blockbuster, yeah, this last Blockbuster concept was these guys
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  Speaker 2: happened to be in the small town where there was
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  Speaker 2: one of like five remaining Blockbusters. I think when they started,
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  Speaker 2: there might have been like 10 or 11 or something
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  Speaker 2: left in the country when they started making this. They
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  Speaker 2: started just kind of shooting footage of this lady that's
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  Speaker 2: running the one in the town with them. And then
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  Speaker 2: it got to like five, essentially. The other four were
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  Speaker 2: in Alaska. because i guess there's not a lot of
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  Speaker 2: options right stuff to do in alaska so they were
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  Speaker 2: still up and running and all four of those clothes
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  Speaker 2: like in one shot they were just like all right
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  Speaker 2: we're closing these out and she became in the middle
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  Speaker 2: of them filming already she became the last blockbuster still
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  Speaker 2: operating And what's weird, and that's where I originally came from,
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  Speaker 2: it was essentially a mom and pop video store at
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  Speaker 2: one point that then got turned into, once they go
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  Speaker 2: into their history, it became franchise name Blockbuster. Still kind
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  Speaker 2: of used their signage and stuff, but then especially by
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  Speaker 2: the end there when there were no more, they totally
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  Speaker 2: ran like a mom and pop too. And the really
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  Speaker 2: weird thing was at the beginning, and this was almost like, Again,
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  Speaker 2: like such an interesting little snapshot into this lady's life
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  Speaker 2: because it's like starting somewhat recently. And when she goes
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  Speaker 2: to like, okay, and we're going to get some new
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  Speaker 2: movies for the new releases, you see her shopping at
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  Speaker 2: Target to go pick up the movies.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, that answers a question I have.
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  Speaker 2: To buy and bring back and to have in her blockbuster.
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  Speaker 2: Is that even legal?
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I guess at this point, like if you
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  Speaker 2: don't have video distributors that deal with video stores anymore
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  Speaker 2: like what other options do you have i mean i
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  Speaker 2: guess you can just go on amazon now.
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  Speaker 1: I mean i'm not knocking her for doing.
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  Speaker 2: It no i was like it was kind of but
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  Speaker 2: it was like totally like i didn't even think about
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  Speaker 2: that because i was like even you know what little
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  Speaker 2: i dealt with it again the chain was such a
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  Speaker 2: huge operation they had you know dealers buying tons of
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  Speaker 2: copies of everything and shipping them out so you don't
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  Speaker 2: really think of the one lady running the one video
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  Speaker 2: store left that has to go to target and buy
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  Speaker 2: the new releases to put on her.
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  Speaker 1: Show but No, that brought up a good point while
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  Speaker 1: you were talking about that. Because there are still video
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  Speaker 1: stores around. Probably fewer than 100, if I had to guess,
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  Speaker 1: in this country.
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  Speaker 2: I would assume, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, how do... And yeah, you've got the niche
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  Speaker 1: ones and the specialty stores. But yeah, I wonder how
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  Speaker 1: the ones deal with new releases. Because I don't think
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  Speaker 1: there's a distribution chain for that anymore.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if there is, it's like a weird... You'd
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  Speaker 2: have to tap into somebody that's dealing with the Walmarts
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  Speaker 2: of the world that are like buying 10 billion copies
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  Speaker 2: to undercut you and then you're paying like $ 29. 99 for
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  Speaker 2: this new movie that came out per unit.
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  Speaker 1: Or there's one guy who's like, is that the phone?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's probably that lady at Blockbuster. Wants to order
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  Speaker 2: the new release. So anyway, that was, yeah, that was
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  Speaker 2: a side thing. But yeah, it made me think of
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  Speaker 2: this once I got into this. I was like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: this is kind of Like, still going on for a
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  Speaker 2: handful of people out there. Just not quite so fantasy
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  Speaker 2: in the history of time in cinema. So, mom and pop.
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  Speaker 2: Did you name your video store? Obviously, I mean, I
• 12:53
  Speaker 2: could just go with Movie Meltdown. We've already got the
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  Speaker 2: melting videotape artwork to go right on the sign. So,
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  Speaker 2: I can slap that up there and hang it up.
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  Speaker 2: Or just Meltdown Video, which also kind of works. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But did anyone choose anything other than that?
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't come up with anything.
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  Speaker 2: I failed you. You're a franchise now. You're part of
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  Speaker 2: the Meltdown video chain.
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  Speaker 6: Mine, for some reason, the only thing I could think
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  Speaker 6: of was Like the first time I saw Silence of
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  Speaker 6: the Lambs when I was a kid was in my
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  Speaker 6: friend's basement and they had a Laserdisc machine.
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  Speaker 5: Nice.
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  Speaker 6: And it's the only movie that I've ever seen via Laserdisc.
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  Speaker 2: If you want, I can get you a big old
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  Speaker 2: box of them.
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  Speaker 1: You still have your player?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. It's not hooked up. It was actually before
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  Speaker 2: I moved and I still had things that that's the
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  Speaker 2: only way I had it. So I would have watched it.
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  Speaker 1: Because I don't have a player, but I have several movies.
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  Speaker 2: Really? I have about three boxes of DVDs. LaserDisc that
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  Speaker 2: I only bought because they were fucking expensive. So I
• 13:54
  Speaker 2: only bought them when they were like super marked down.
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  Speaker 2: So all of them I've got are like the weird
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  Speaker 2: stuff that ended up for $ 3.
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  Speaker 6: 99.
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  Speaker 2: And I was like, I'll watch that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm proud to say I own the Naked Gun two
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  Speaker 1: and a half. And That Thing You Do on LaserDisc.
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  Speaker 2: All right, That Thing You Do. I wouldn't be ashamed
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  Speaker 2: of that. I was surprised it even came out on LaserDisc.
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  Speaker 2: That Thing You Do is pretty good.
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  Speaker 6: Well, so point being. sorry my store would be named
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  Speaker 6: the laser disc depot.
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  Speaker 7: Because that was all i could think i was just
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  Speaker 7: gonna call it laser video and that already you could
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  Speaker 7: have like space stuff on it so like but yours
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  Speaker 7: is very like official.
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  Speaker 2: And corporate and sounds like there's a forklift.
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  Speaker 6: Somewhere yeah maybe i don't like depot laser video better
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  Speaker 6: word that's got that got ray guns and shit on
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  Speaker 6: it like yeah that works whatever.
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  Speaker 2: All right. So if you, in fact, and this is again,
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  Speaker 2: one of those fun, if you've worked in any dumb business,
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  Speaker 2: but specifically I was throwing in some of the breakdown
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  Speaker 2: of how some of them, again, everybody's business works totally different,
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: but sometimes you're the owner, sometimes you're the manager, and
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  Speaker 2: sometimes you're the one that barely shows up and you
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  Speaker 2: hire an assistant manager that's really there all the time.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes you're there half the time. So It's kind of
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  Speaker 2: up to you how much you plan to work at
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  Speaker 2: this store. But it's relatively important that you bring in
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  Speaker 2: somebody that knows what they're doing assistant manager wise for
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  Speaker 2: either of those scenarios. So that's my first one is
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  Speaker 2: who is your assistant manager?
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  Speaker 6: Mine, I picked Randy from Scream and Scream 2, Jamie
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  Speaker 6: Kennedy's character. Because he already has experience working at a
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  Speaker 6: video store.
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  Speaker 2: He does.
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  Speaker 6: So he got those skills. He has an endless well
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  Speaker 6: of movie knowledge.
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  Speaker 5: Yep.
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  Speaker 6: And even predicted that the killers were the killers. And
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  Speaker 6: he's just an all-around loyal friend. So that was my choice.
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  Speaker 2: More or less. I considered him in my choosing of people.
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  Speaker 2: But then the Randy part of it's pretty cool. The
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  Speaker 2: Jamie Kennedy part of it?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I focused on the character.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we're going on character.
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  Speaker 2: I know, but in reality, my brain kept going, man,
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  Speaker 2: that Jamie Kennedy.
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  Speaker 6: I know.
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  Speaker 2: Last time I saw him, he was underneath a table.
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  Speaker 2: That's true. He was at a show and being wacky
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  Speaker 2: or whatever the hell he was doing, he was laying
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  Speaker 2: underneath his table and you could see his foot up
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: on his chair. That's how he was for a while.
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  Speaker 5: Hmm.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know about this Jamie Kennedy character. Anyway. But yes, Randy,
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  Speaker 2: within the context of all three of those first three,
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  Speaker 2: is a fun guy. So I'm okay with Randy the character,
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  Speaker 2: which is how we're doing.
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  Speaker 1: I picked Groucho Marx specifically... The Hugo Hackenbush character from
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  Speaker 1: A Day at the Races, which is kind of nothing
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  Speaker 1: but headaches. This guy came to me. He told me
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  Speaker 1: he had been the manager of our main competitor, which
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  Speaker 1: I found out was a lie. He was actually a
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: manager of Circuit City. Don't know why he felt the
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: need to tell me that. And yeah, the whole place
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  Speaker 1: smells like cigars.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I could see that. Especially if you're operating in
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: today's world.
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  Speaker 8: We are.
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  Speaker 2: The smoking part of it's not going to go over
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: well with people. Or the fire code, really.
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  Speaker 1: And he constantly lies about where the smoke comes from.
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  Speaker 2: I will say on the upside, I feel like he
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: could talk you out of whatever bad situation comes about.
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  Speaker 2: That was mine.
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  Speaker 1: It's happened a few times.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody who can handle whatever goes wrong in this scenario,
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: they can handle it. I feel like Grouch is... Groucho's
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: one of those. He's got it under control, even if
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  Speaker 2: he doesn't care about what's going on. He will take
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: care of himself and amuse himself with other people, which
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: is mostly what he's doing.
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  Speaker 1: He flirts with the ladies a lot, though, which is
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  Speaker 1: kind of problematic.
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  Speaker 2: Possibly crossing a line, yeah. Oh, Groucho. But that's also
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: the same reason I went with mine. Again, I didn't
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: think too hard on any of these. I was kind
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: of like, what's my initial... Like, knee-jerk reaction, and I
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: was just like, well, obviously I'm hiring Ripley. So, Ellen
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: Ripley from Alien and or any of the franchise, essentially. But, yeah,
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: I feel like if there's somebody that can take care
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: of your story, Ripley's on top of things.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: My only concern is, would people listen to her until
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: it was too late?
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know. I feel like she'd, any, like, random...
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: part-timer that questioned her, she'd just, like, slam a book
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: in the wall, be like, look, idiot, get over there
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: and file those, and you better have them in alphabetical order,
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: and he'd be like, okay, okay. You don't mess with her.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: No, but I see her being like, yeah, don't put
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: those videotapes too close to the magnets, and they're like, whatever.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: I feel like that's only coming from the corporate end
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: of it. If we were a chain, I feel like
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: we'd be like, yeah, I mean, we've read your report, Ripley,
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: that we shouldn't put these VHS tapes in the sun, but...
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: We're thinking of starting a new store on the sun
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: and we're going to send you there if you're cool
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: with that. And she's like, no, I don't. This is
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: a terrible idea. The corporation is full of idiots and
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: you don't listen to me. So as long as we're
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: mom and pop, I think she's okay. I do also,
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: in the concept of this, I'm sure we'll get sidetracked
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: in many directions. I spent a decent amount of time
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: thinking how this job interview is going to go. Just like,
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: so I see here you're the warrant officer on the Nostromo. Interesting, interesting.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: What do you feel is like the biggest obstacle you
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: had to overcome in.
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: This last job?
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: I just like, she's like, well, let me think about that.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Suck a fucking alien out, I'll tell you that. Ripley,
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: just saying.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: It's a good one.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: All right, so my next one I got to throw in. Again,
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: I don't know how much this crosses over into every
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: chain store. I like throwing out the third key terminology.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: But again, I don't know that.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: I have a third key on here specifically.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: That's the only time I heard it used. Like anywhere
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: else I worked, nobody else ever called anything that. So,
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: I mean, I feel like anybody that has that, especially
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: for a smaller store... you've pretty much got like manager, co-manager,
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: and then there's always a floating third person who a
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: lot of times is like a part-time and manager-ish person
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: at the same time. So that was third key for
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: at least one of these stores I worked at. But again,
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: kind of like your part-time manager, needs to be responsible,
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: but probably isn't there all the time for two different reasons,
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: or at least I put them in two different categories.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Because usually you're either hiring, can't be high school kids
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: because you've got to be there too many hours. So
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: you're looking at probably a college kid who's got certain
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: days they can work. Or my other option was once
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: you've gotten out of your regular work routine, you're a
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: little older, but you still might pick up a job
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: just to keep yourself busy. You're usually one of those
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: ends of the spectrum there. So where did we go
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: with your third key characters?
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Okay, well I have, PJ Souls as Riff Randall from
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Rock and Roll High School.
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: Nice.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: Just to hang out all day with PJ sounds good
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: to me.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. And I was torn. I knew it was going
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: to be PJ Souls, but specifically which PJ Souls, either
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: from Halloween, Rock and Roll High School, or from Carrie.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: Because there's not a lot of difference there, but there's
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: just enough.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: I'm just picturing your board behind the counter. We're totally
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: out of that. I'm sorry. You can try back, I
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: don't know, tomorrow.
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: Well.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: I went with Riff because she's friendly. She's bubbly.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: She doesn't always play by the rules, but she gets
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: the job done in the end.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: And she is, I questioned, well, I specifically, in talking
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: to PJ, I said she was an honorary Ramon.
• 22:23
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: I was like, they're dropping off, so you're one of
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: the few people left that were connected to him. So
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: I said she's a Ramon, so.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: They say that at the end of rock and roll.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: Maybe she can, you know, get the band back together.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: This is time and space. I suppose we can also
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: necromance them back into the band. We are totally out
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: of that. All right.
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: Uh i read the uh role entirely wrong and i
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: thought like night shift so i picked a vampire that
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: also i mean i was like third like third shift
• 23:03
  Speaker 6: but apparently that's not right but anyway you.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: Can have a nighttime shift leader who's a third key.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah okay i mean most of them are i mean
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: the the one we had here that i briefly worked
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: at was open till midnight most definitely the weekend so
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: that's already a pretty late shift for me i can't
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: i'm asleep by then so Gonna have to hire possibly
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: a vampire.
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 23:25
  Speaker 6: So I hired Viago, who is Taika Waititi's character from
• 23:30
  Speaker 6: What We Do in the Shadows. Because I love him
• 23:33
  Speaker 6: so much.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: I do like him in general as a person. So
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: obviously any of his characters.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Plus it is fun to say Waititi.
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: Taika Waititi.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: That just... That's a hard name to say.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: It's no Imogen Poots.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: Surprisingly, she's not working in my videos. She's not on
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: mine either. Not on mine either. What's up with that?
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: She would have been a good one.
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: Dang.
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: But I picked him because he's nocturnal and he would
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: eat anybody who tried to break in and mess with
• 23:58
  Speaker 6: any of my inventory. He's also super adorable. Has great clothes.
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: Excellent outfits. won't slash can't eat any of the snacks.
• 24:08
  Speaker 6: And is very clean. Because I love that scene in
• 24:11
  Speaker 6: the movie where he goes down to the basement and
• 24:13
  Speaker 6: he's like, Peter, I brought a broom so you could
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: sweep up all the skeletons of the chickens.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: Possibly a little OCD about it. So I think he
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: and I would get along really well.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: But you need to run a clean store.
• 24:26
  Speaker 9: I mean, I get it.
• 24:28
  Speaker 6: I pick him. I love him.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: I'm also trying to picture somebody who doesn't know the
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: specifics of him and are still accusing him of like, look,
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: we're missing a lot of Sour Patch Kids. And not
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: saying anything, but I can't even eat those. I might
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: suck them dry. So this one, again, I went for
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: the older one. I was like, who are we going
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: to get that's like maybe semi-retired but wants to come
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: hang out and keep themselves busy with a job part-time?
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: So I immediately was going again, just sort of going
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: for a person and like, which character is the way
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: to go? So I was going with Jimmy Stewart. But
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: I was like, well, my first thought is Vertigo. But
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: I'm like, Scotty's problematic. Like, number one, he's working real
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: hard at becoming an alcoholic by the end of that movie.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: And number two, he's kind of creepy. He likes following
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: women around and then trying to turn them into other women.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: And like, this just seems like an HR nightmare. So
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: instead I went with Jeff Jeffries from Rear Window. So
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: I figure he gets injured a few too many times.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: He's just like, look, I'm going to have to cut
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: out this photography game and just try to settle down.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: I've got this awesome girlfriend because Grace Kelly is gorgeous.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: So I'm probably just going to stay around here. But
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: I figure everybody that comes up, he's also going to
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: have some sort of crazy war story that he's just
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: going to be like, ah, written Casablanca. I remember one
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: time I was doing a photo shoot in Morocco, and
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: I just trail off for like 20 minutes on some
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: sort of crazy story, and then he gets injured somehow. Yeah.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: I feel like all of his photo shoots ended.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: I had a neighbor who used to watch Color Purple
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: over and over.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: All the time.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: And I would watch it through a window. You probably
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: don't need to know this.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: Okay, also a little creepy, but you know, it was
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: for a legit reason. He was looking for a murderer.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: Or that girl exercising.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: One or the other, I don't know.
• 26:33
  Speaker 6: Calisthenics.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: But yeah, I figure just hanging out with Jimmy Stewart
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: telling stories all day.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: Oh, sure.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: That's the way to go.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: But see, now I'm picturing Jimmy working in my video
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: store and Riff's like, uh-huh.
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: She grabs a hold of some Sour Patch Kids. Because
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: she's totally the reason those Sour Patch Kids are disappearing.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Off the show.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: I'm not saying anything, Riff, but we might.
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: Have to have a talk.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: And there's gum stuck to everything.
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: Dammit.
• 27:09
  Speaker 10: Your brick and mortar first appeared in 85. Beta and
• 27:13
  Speaker 10: VHS brought old movies to life. It's just a shame
• 27:17
  Speaker 10: your business model can't survive.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: Oh, oh.
• 27:24
  Speaker 10: And now just network says you're going to close your doors.
• 27:27
  Speaker 10: Because of Amazon Prime and those Redbox whores. At least
• 27:32
  Speaker 10: we won't hear, please be kind, rewind, no more.
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: Oh, oh.
• 27:37
  Speaker 10: And now my children, oh, oh, oh, will never know you.
• 27:42
  Speaker 10: Digital killed the video store. Digital killed the video store.
• 27:49
  Speaker 10: Netflix came and broke your heart.
• 27:52
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• 27:57
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• 28:00
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• 28:15
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• 28:18
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• 28:23
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• 28:30
  Speaker 8: So, Misty.
• 28:31
  Speaker 11: Hmm?
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: You like horror. I do.
• 28:33
  Speaker 8: It's my favorite.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: I think most people are into that. And if they are,
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: they should be joining up on the old Meltdown Horror Club.
• 28:42
  Speaker 10: I will take you to a place where my friends foregather.
• 28:46
  Speaker 10: There you will find stories of such blood-curdling terror.
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: That will make your.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: Toes curl and your hair reach up towards the sky.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: Well, yes, all they have to do is go to MovieMeltdown.com,
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: click on the Meltdown Horror Club link that's right there
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: on the right-hand side, and join the club. Hells yeah.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: And then they can hear exclusive episodes.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: All about horror.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: All about whatever crazy movies we're watching. And at this point,
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: they get to help us pick the next movie that
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: we watch. Awesome. Them and Satan. And or the evil
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: forces that live inside the 20-sided die that I now
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: use to choose what our next horror movie is going
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: to be. But you put things on the list and
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: then we go to the evil forces that live in
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: the die and they tell us what the next movie is.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: It's pretty fun.
• 29:34
  Speaker 6: Sounds pretty exciting.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: I think we're having fun with it and you can
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: be part of that fun. Go to MovieMeltdown.com join the
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: Meltdown Horror Club, and get in on the action.
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: The most fun you'll ever have being scared.
• 29:51
  Speaker 11: Primero son ácidos.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: Luego son dulces.
• 29:55
  Speaker 7: Para mí?
• 29:55
  Speaker 8: Hey!
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: I rewound.
• 30:07
  Speaker 6: This tape all over and it's blank.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: Really?
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: This video, it don't work.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: Yours looks like this.
• 30:13
  Speaker 8: Look, look, look.
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: All the tapes are blank.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: It's the TV, Mike.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: Show me how you.
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: Why is it doing that? Does that happen when you
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: do it?
• 30:23
  Speaker 8: Uh-oh.
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: What is wrong with you?
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: Why is it doing that when you do that?
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: We're magnetized!
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: You erased these tapes!
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: It's you! You gotta find new tapes.
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: I got a better idea.
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: Follow me.
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: When you're walking down the street and you see a
• 30:43
  Speaker 5: little ghost, what you gonna do about Ghostbusters? What? What?
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: What is that?
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: That's the Ghostbusters theme song.
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: No.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure it is.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: That wasn't bad.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: What else y'all got? I will shoot you and I
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: know robot karate.
• 31:15
  Speaker 10: Nothing from nothing leaves nothing.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: These are not just simple remakes.
• 31:22
  Speaker 9: What's happening to her?
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: Our version is better.
• 31:27
  Speaker 12: Our version is only 20 minutes.
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: We're celebrities now.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: People recognize me in the street.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: Go in for the kiss.
• 31:34
  Speaker 11: Go now.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: Kiss him now.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: Why do I have to kiss Wilson? You have to
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: keep her from blowing your head off.
• 31:40
  Speaker 11: I'm not kissing Wilson.
• 31:41
  Speaker 8: Ambitious.
• 31:42
  Speaker 9: Stop trying to beat me.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: Hi, this is Doug Jones.
• 31:44
  Speaker 7: From the Oscar-winning movie.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: The shape of water but right now you're listening to
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: movie meltdown.
• 32:14
  Speaker 13: It's part of your problem you know you haven't seen
• 32:25
  Speaker 13: enough movies all of life's riddles are answered in the
• 32:27
  Speaker 13: movies and now on with the show.
• 32:45
  Speaker 8: But here we are again Another week has come and
• 32:52
  Speaker 8: been And like every other week We find ourselves.
• 32:59
  Speaker 14: Condemned to choose There's too damn many, many in here
• 33:09
  Speaker 14: There's too damn many, many.
• 33:12
  Speaker 8: In here And I've got to find one.
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: To take home.
• 33:17
  Speaker 8: And I don't know what it's called, but it's small
• 33:20
  Speaker 8: and independent. And it's going to take some time to find.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: All right, so the rest of them, we've got the
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: basic staff thrown together here. So everything else we can
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: just throw out if we have some of these other
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: crazy characters. I threw out a few, but again, if
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: you come up with your own, definitely... Go to town.
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: Do we want to go with the... The one that
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: I came up with was... And some of them are
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: based on different versions of people over the years. And
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: I feel like most video stores, especially independent ones, you
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: would definitely have that weird employee that doesn't really talk
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: to people much. But yet, I balanced it out with
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: probably knows a ridiculous amount about movies. So, for my
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: version of that, I went with... henry spencer which would
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: be john nance from eraser i feel like he still
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: comes in with crazy hair and though the rest of
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: us are wearing like jeans and movie t-shirts he comes
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: in in the suit every day and um doesn't really
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: talk a lot and but eventually somebody not knowing will
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: come up and be like do you have the color purple?
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: And he'll be like, um, over there, take a left
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: 14 down on the right there. And like, he'll, he'll
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: have everything like in his head laid out within the store.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: And like, so yeah, he's really good at putting the
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: stock back. Like he just doesn't say much, but he,
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: he's sort of lurking over in the corner there, just
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: making sure all the stocks in the right place. Don't
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: get it out of. So yeah, just crazy eraser head
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: hanging out in the corner. being cool, you know, like
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: he is. That's my weird employee.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: My weird employee is Ally Sheedy's character, Allison, from The
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: Breakfast Club. She's quiet. People kind of avoid her, but.
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: I'm going to be hanging out at your video store
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: is what I'm finding. Because, yeah, forget the princess. It's
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: all about Ally Sheedy in that movie.
• 35:31
  Speaker 6: I guess mine's kind of in the same vein, but
• 35:33
  Speaker 6: it would be Cameron from Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
• 35:35
  Speaker 5: Nice.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: All right, all right.
• 35:37
  Speaker 6: He's probably very smart.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: I see him being a hard worker when you can
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: find him.
• 35:42
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: You know? As long as Ferris doesn't come up. Anytime
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: his friend shows up, it all goes to hell.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: Look, your friend with the vest has to leave.
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: He's got to go, man. Who keeps parking that car?
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: That is not a spot. Somebody's going to scratch your car, man.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: I'm looking at this now, and I'm noticing that there's
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: a lot of white people on my list. And I
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: feel bad about that. But there are... So far, I
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: do have two women working for me, so that's somewhat diverse.
• 36:12
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't have any yet. I only have two.
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: Of the other random employees, I've got a mixture there.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: It's funny that I totally didn't go for the Randy option.
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: But I did go for a Scream 4 option. And
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: has nothing to do with the video store world. This
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: was one that carried over. I'm pretty sure I came
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: up with this in the dream. And I went, well,
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: I guess they're working there then. I hired on Adam
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: Brody and Anthony Anderson as like a team because these
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: two are joined at the hip. And they're going to
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: be working together. So you might as well just go
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: ahead and put their shifts on the same schedule because
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: these two are just they just hang out all day
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: just talking hanging out possibly eyeballing those sour patch kids
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: but mostly just hanging out and talking and and i
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: guess they help customers but for some reason those two
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: needed to be working at my store they are quite
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: entertaining together i have to say It's interesting that you
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: both have brought up Scream characters because this guy's not
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: an employee, but he is a customer.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: I have Liev Schreiber.
• 37:28
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 37:30
  Speaker 5: Cotton.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: As Cotton, yeah.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: Cotton just hangs out there.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: He's a decent enough customer, but he's why we had
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: to put a limit on our free popcorn policy. So, yeah.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: I can see that.
• 37:43
  Speaker 6: Creepily popping out from behind.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: Rinse a lot of porn.
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: A lot of porn.
• 37:47
  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah. I have.
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: I have my category.
• 37:49
  Speaker 6: Oh, I didn't even think about that.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: Which wouldn't bother me.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: Mine's coming up.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: But it doesn't bother me that he rents a lot
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: of porn because that's what it's there for.
• 37:56
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: But he rents the stuff that I'm like, I didn't
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: even know I had this movie in stock for one.
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: And two, he insists on checking out with the teenage girls,
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: which is problematic.
• 38:08
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: Well, are we jumping to the weird regular customers then?
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: Because while we're in the special room. Which I've decided my,
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: which actually, I mean, if especially, you didn't think about it,
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: but you're mom and pop, Nora, so you're going to
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: have to have one because that's the only thing that
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: kept mom and pop stores open. When blockbusters came around
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: and had 500 copies of one new release movie that
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: you can't compete with, the one thing you had that
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: they didn't was a special room. So I've also decided
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: my special room definitely needs old school 70s beads on
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: the door. Oh, yeah. Well, yeah. Which I never really
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: saw one that had, but I'm like, that is so,
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: like I saw it on like TV and movies did that,
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: but I'm like, I never physically went to one that
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: had those, but I'm like, I'm bringing it back.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: The one down the street from my house? No, it
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: had a curtain.
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I've seen curtains. Yeah, I've definitely seen the curtain.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: It had a very loud curtain.
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: There you go.
• 39:06
  Speaker 5: See?
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: I'm not looking at porno. At least in the last
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: incarnation of the most recent porno I was at, they
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: had it where it was like, he built it to
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: be that, I guess, because it was like a door
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: and it like ran into a wall and then you
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: had to turn another corner. So you didn't need a curtain. Yeah.
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: But you also didn't need like anything to block it.
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: Like it just led to another wall and And if
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: you didn't know it was in there, you'd just walk
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: right past it. It was only when your kids wandered
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: in there, you were like, oh, shit. Hold on. Don't
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: look at those. Don't look at those. Cover your eyes.
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: He ingeniously made a nice little maze to keep you
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: from walking directly into Game of Bones or whatever was
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: on the other side. Those were my favorite, were the
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: legitimate movies and things that they turned into titles, which
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: I think everybody, that's an easy joke.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: What's sad is I don't think they do that so
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: much anymore.
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: Not as much.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: Because now it's just name of movie parody.
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, even then it was already kind of a dying
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: art form. Because that started even in the 70s of
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: them ripping off big movies. And in the 80s it
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: was just overrun with those kind of things. But yeah.
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: By the time I was there, there was only a handful.
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: It would just be the really big things that would
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: come out and they'd have to do a porn parody.
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: But now the internet's just loaded with them. You don't
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: have to put any work into it.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: It's just there. Sometimes you can be looking for the
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: legit movie.
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: The other one is readily available. Don't you worry. But yeah,
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: so mine, I was trying to figure out who is
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: it that loiters around the special room. Definitely Claire Quilty.
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: From Lolita.
• 40:43
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: Either of them. Either Peter Sellers or Frank Langella. Also creepy.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: Both of them have to wear an overcoat, which for
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: Peter Sellers is tricky because then people are like, you
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: know who you look like? You look like that Pink
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: Panther guy. He's like, I get that a lot.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: I want Frank Langella for my special room, but as Skeletor. Oh,
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: I would hope. But then.
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: The creepy thing about either version of him is not
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: that he just quietly lurks in there. He wants to
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: chit-chat with people. He wants to be like, oh, yeah,
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: have you seen that one? I mean, surprisingly good lighting.
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: I feel like he's got lots of facts about it
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: that crosses over into could be interesting, but also why
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: are you talking to me right now? That wasn't a
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: room people chatted in a lot. Everybody quietly went about
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: their business. And like tucked it on the side of
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: them as they brought it up to the register. Like
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: people just knew to keep to themselves. And then there'd
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: always be that one person. And I feel like Quilty
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: is one of those kind of people. Mostly just to
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: bug people, I feel like.
• 41:54
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: Because I don't even know if he's super talkative in
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: the rest of the world. But I think he knows
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: it gets on people's nerves. And he wants to do
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: it there because he's a little creepy. A little creepy.
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: Fair enough.
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: All right. So there's the special room with the beads.
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: definitely with the beans i.
• 42:10
  Speaker 6: Feel like seth rogan's character or not seth rogan's character
• 42:13
  Speaker 6: jonah hill's character from super bad would be also one
• 42:16
  Speaker 6: that would you would find loitering in that you're like
• 42:20
  Speaker 6: you gotta go.
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: Buddy come on move along move drop those sour patch
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: kids and get the hell out of.
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: Here like any of jonah hill's characters especially the one
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: from 40 year old virgin Or.
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: Just Jonah Hill. Or just Jonah Hill. Be like, Jonah Hill, please.
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: We've told you. Get out of here.
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: You're like, which Jonah Hill character are you?
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: And he's like, seriously, I'm Jonah Hill. You don't recognize
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: me because I lost a lot of weight, but I
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: still like my porn. So, ring me up. All right.
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: Let's see. Are we back to... Oh, no, we forgot.
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: Did you have other random employees?
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: I have a handyman slash custodial slash general. I have
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: it listed as odd job doer.
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: I have a few random people that I'm like probably
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: wouldn't actually work at any store like this, but I'm
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: throwing them in there for the hell of it. So,
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: all right. Who's your handyman?
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: Mine is Jim Varney as Ernest P. Worrell in any Ernest.
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: I feel like there's going to be some wacky hijinks
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: at your store.
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: This whole thing is just Ernest. I really should fire
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: this guy. He breaks more than he fixes, rarely finishes
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: what he starts. One time I even caught him making
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: his own versions of hit movies for customers to rent.
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: But he's a heart of gold and is super loyal
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: to me and the team, so, you know.
• 43:41
  Speaker 15: Aw.
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: I mean, Ernest is kind of lovable.
• 43:46
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: He's a lot of trouble, but, you know, he means well.
• 43:49
  Speaker 6: And a fellow Kentuckian.
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: There he is.
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: There is not a single employee or really customer in
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: this store that has not been helped by his kindness
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: and generosity.
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: He does seem like he would be super helpful.
• 44:01
  Speaker 13: Oh, yeah.
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: I mean, it doesn't always seem that way at first.
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: He made a machine that was supposed to alphabetize all
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: the videotapes. All it did was blank all of them.
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: That's why he started shooting his own movies.
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: I think I've seen this movie before. Let's see. I
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: did have... I specifically, in the rundown, who's that plucky
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: new kid? There was only one option for me. And again,
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: I just knee-jerk reaction. I'm like, well, obviously, Tom Holland
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: as Peter Parker. He's the kid that I think of
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: for any random kid now. I'm like, before he gets
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: his big fancy photography job, he probably works at the
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: video store. So yeah, this is his in-between job. But
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: how can you not love that kid? He's just so
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: damn likable. I don't know. He kind of knows his movies,
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: but mostly he's just actually he also reminds me of
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: somebody I used to work with who kind of looked
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: like him and was kind of that adorable and everybody
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: liked him. And I was just like, life just must
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: be easy.
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: Does this quirky little Asian buddy hang out.
• 45:08
  Speaker 4: At the store?
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: I hope so.
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: Because I feel like. I feel like that'd be the
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: one friend where you could be like, yeah, you can hang.
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: Out as much as you want. He probably doesn't ever
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: get a job there, but he does equally as much
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: work as Peter does. And you're just like, when did
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: you do that? Oh, no, I alphabetized those for you.
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: I'm like, okay. You know you don't work here, right? Yeah,
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: but I'm waiting until he gets off and we're going
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: to go build the Death Star.
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: What was that character's name?
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: What is his name? He is one of my favorite
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: things about both of those movies.
• 45:38
  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: Well, that and Aunt May.
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: She's a little different version of Aunt May.
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: Whatever, I'll take it.
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: You and Tony Stark. Wasn't it Ned?
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: It might have been Ned.
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: Am I making that up before I even get to it?
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: Let's see. Ned! I was right. My brain remembered something.
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: Jacob is his real name. Wow, that does not look
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: like him at all. That is not how I pictured Ned.
• 46:11
  Speaker 5: No.
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: He does not look the same out in the real world.
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: He kind of drew me in that dangerous sort of.
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: You know. It's like, I'm the rock stunt double? Screw
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: you guys. So, does anybody else have a plucky new kid?
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: I couldn't think of one.
• 46:29
  Speaker 5: Me neither.
• 46:30
  Speaker 6: I don't know why.
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: I also like the idea that maybe he isn't just
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: Peter Parker, but he also is the Peter Parker who
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: is Spider-Man. So like he's like when people aren't looking,
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: he's like grabbing movies off the shelf with the webs
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: and like doing crazy feats of strength because he has
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: super spider powers and whatnot. So I like to think,
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: you know, also good for like security purposes. Oh, sure.
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: But it seems like he would disappear frequently.
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: That happens a lot when you're friends with Peter. Yeah.
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: That's how he, you know, the whole, the whole, either
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: of the girlfriends, their relationship does not go well because
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: every time they turn around, they say, where the hell
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: did Peter go?
• 47:10
  Speaker 6: No.
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: See, I don't really have, again, I'm not, I'm not
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: a corporate run one, but I started casting those anyway
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: just because. So I don't have a district manager. But again,
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: I'm basing it on reality. And the only thing I
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: can't ever think of any district manager without thinking of
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: the district manager that used to be in charge of
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: the chain that I was at. And he... I don't
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: know if I 100% realized it at the time. When
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: I look back on him, in my memories, he's played
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: by the 80s, 90s era version of John Landis. Because
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: he's legitimate. Like he was... A dark haired dude with
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: a beard and he was about that height.
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: If we're thinking of the same guy.
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he totally looked like that guy. And I was
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: just like, I don't think I put that together at
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: the time. But now when I look back, I'm like,
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: he looked like almost exactly. He definitely, everything about him
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: looked like that. His face might have been just different enough.
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: He wouldn't have gotten mistaken for him. But everything about
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: him feels like a weird guy. 80s to 90s era
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: John Williams.
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: And he went to work in the video world. That's interesting.
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: A little strange.
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: And again if ever there was a sad life this
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: poor bastard and I hated him because he always came
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: down on us for stupid things that I didn't want
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: to do. He was the voice of the corporation so
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: much like Ripley we both hated the corporation because the
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: corporation is what ruins the fun of what that job
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: is because everything else about that job was awesome except
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: the corporation. So the corporation that killed that company, he,
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: he was the face of it for me. So, but yeah, that's,
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: that's how, so I was going with, uh, he, I
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: was like, he isn't in a bunch of those movies.
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: So I was like, let's pick a, uh, in trading places.
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: He plays uncredited man with briefcase. I was like, well,
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: that sounds like a DM to me. So he comes
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: in with his briefcase and yeah, he just kind of
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: the ass.
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: But yeah, this poor bastard would at least... I remember
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: because we used to come up with this like piecing
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: together of his life at the time at least six
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: days a week he would be driving from one store
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: to the next that was the entirety he had a
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: house apartment and once I think he came out of
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: like Michigan or somewhere but like.
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: Wasn't Michigan but because I know he was down in
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: Tennessee all the time yeah maybe.
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: He was outside of Tennessee somewhere but like He had
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: a house, but like six out of seven days he
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: was on the road in one of the stores pestering
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: the managers, asking dumb questions, showing up with his man
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: with briefcase. And I'm just like, this is your life?
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: Because then he would have to stay at a hotel
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: and the corporation would cover it, which is fun, I
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: would think, for the first few months. And then after
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: a while you're like, oh my God, I just want
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: to go home.
• 50:05
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: Well, annoying.
• 50:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: Knowing what that company paid their store managers, I can't
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: imagine their district managers were really rolling out.
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: So yeah, he was just... I think this is a
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: legit story with tie-ins to our creepy special room. But
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure one of our employees that you might
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: have also known, I think had to go to a
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: specific type of an establishment.
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the funny thing. I think he went not
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: because I'm going to go here, but there was.
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: No, got roped into like a friend had a bachelor
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: party and had to go to a strip club and
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: saw our district manager there. And I was like, oh God,
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: this adds such an extra layer to like, you go,
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: you have to eat at a restaurant every night of
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: your life because you're not at home. So you're eating
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: some sort of sad Applebee's by yourself. And then afterwards
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: you have nothing to do because you have to drive
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: to Michigan tomorrow. So you end up at a strip
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: club for like, this is your life. Six out of
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: seven days a week. Maybe he shot himself. I don't know.
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: This is the sad, sorriest life ever. So, John Landis,
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: take that.
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: You know, what's funny is because that guy was such a,
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: not to my side, but throwing it to the side
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: of somebody that I was involved with, I haven't thought
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: about that guy in decades. But I remember thinking, man,
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: what a pain in the ass. Now, like you say,
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: it's just like, What a sad existence.
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: I mean, even at the time, we disliked him quite
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: a bit, but at the same time, we had discussions
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: and were like, what a horrible life. What a sad,
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: sorry bastard this guy is.
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: He probably wasn't that bad of a guy.
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, there was times when you could almost
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: have a conversation with him, but at any given moment,
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: it would turn into an ad on sale. Like, everything
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: like brainwashed by the corporation, like in a weird way
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: that like you couldn't go more than five or 10
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: minutes without some other tie in into doing a sales.
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: Well, it was like, you couldn't admit to that guy that, Oh, I,
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: I work here because I love movies and I love
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: talking to people about movies. It was, you had to be,
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: I love working here because I love trying to get
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: people to subscribe to entertainment weekly.
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: I want them to join up on our club. There's
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: another business now that pesters me every time I'm at
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: the register for something very similar that we used to
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: have to shove into people's faces. And like every time
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: I'm just like, no, on principle at this point, because
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: I've been where you are and that's bullshit and you
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: shouldn't have to do it either, but I'm not going
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: to buy into it. So yeah, the dumb things they
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: came up with to shove at people. And I, again,
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: I blamed him for a lot. Well, not really.
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: What I've learned from being on that side of the
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: selling side of the counter is Is that I would
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: rather have the person just be like, nope, and just
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: leave it at that. But when we go to places
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: like what you're talking about now, my wife wants.
• 53:15
  Speaker 11: To tell me more about it.
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: And it's like, no.
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: You're like, stop.
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: Because if it's the ones where it gets to, and
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: it's $ 14. 95 a year, that's when she's like, Well, I
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: probably won't use it.
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: And you've killed 15 minutes, period, all of that.
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, I am hiding in the corner, crying.
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: Bad memories, bad memories. Read this Entertainment Weekly, and if
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: only it existed. Now it's monthly, but they still call
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: it Entertainment Weekly. Figure that out.
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: Well, at least they didn't just shorten it to its initials.
• 53:51
  Speaker 8: Ew.
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: When we're Entertainment Weekly, now we're ew. Someone gets fired
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: over that. I would only hope. Rebranding.
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: I feel like Entertainment Weekly only exists because teenagers tried
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: to or had to talk people into buying subscriptions of it.
• 54:10
  Speaker 4: At video stores.
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: See, I mean, I was a dork enough. I kind
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: of liked it for what it was. Like, it didn't
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: aim too high. Like, it was just because it was
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: so regular. Like, look, we got to get a bunch
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: of stuff out to fill this magazine and next week
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: we're doing another one. So, like, you didn't even have
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: time for it to be super interesting. It was just like, here,
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: we got some decent pictures of the thing that's coming
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: out next week.
• 54:31
  Speaker 6: Here.
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: And you'd get it just long enough to be like,
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: oh shit, there's another one. Hold on. Weekly is like
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: too much for a magazine.
• 54:42
  Speaker 6: I thought of plucky teen employees. I think Damien and
• 54:47
  Speaker 6: Janice from Mean Girls would be a fun duo to have.
• 54:52
  Speaker 6: They'd be like sarcastic and Jokey, but also into alternative stuff.
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I like Jane. I can see them
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: just kind of talking shit about the people that come in.
• 55:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: Like once they're out of earshot, they know well enough
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: to like loiter a little further away and just be like,
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: look at her outfit.
• 55:14
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: Can you believe he rented Private Benjamin again?
• 55:20
  Speaker 5: Again?
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: What is this, like, nine times?
• 55:23
  Speaker 6: I feel like Damien would also be, like, friendly enough
• 55:25
  Speaker 6: and into the movies enough that he would give great recommendations.
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: He could at least fake it, whereas Janice would be like,
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: eye roll. I'm not even talking to you, okay?
• 55:35
  Speaker 6: But then I could be like, Janice, is this thing cool?
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: She'd be like, oh. And I'd absolutely believe it. I'll
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: tell you. Don't you worry.
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: Oh, I wish I had one of those in real life.
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: This is cool.
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: I mean, you can ask any random teenager and they'll
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: tell you. First off, you're not. And second of all, no,
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: that's lame.
• 56:00
  Speaker 6: My teenage cousin is so much cooler than me.
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: I was just thinking, my cousin hit that point in
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: the last couple of years and now I don't even
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: bother talking unless something brings us to. Recently at Christmas,
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: he was pretty cool. But I remember I hear stories
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: now Of like things that he says to like my
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: parents or his parents. And I'm just like, oh man,
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: you are such a teenager. Like that just showed up overnight,
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: didn't it? Just like, oh, this is lame. You're all lame.
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: I don't even want to be here. I'm going to
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: my room.
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: I'm like, ah, flashbacks. Doesn't the fact that you recognize
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: that make you feel real?
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: I mean, I get it.
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: I've caught myself doing that.
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: Again, I'm there. I was there. I'm still kind of there.
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: But now I'm the old weird version of it. So like,
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: I don't know. But yeah, you definitely, you can ask
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: them and they'll tell you everything's lame. Universally, everything's lame.
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: But I knew that already.
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, see? So it saves you a step. Don't talk
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: to kids.
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: That's the moral of the story.
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: Just don't talk to teenagers. Except maybe those two weirdos
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: hanging out at your store. Because they're at least entertaining.
• 57:08
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: Buddy, you're not pretending anymore.
• 57:11
  Speaker 13: You're plastic.
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: Cold, shiny, hard plastic.
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: Curfew, 1 a.m. and it's now 1.10.
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: Did you have an awesome time? Did you drink awesome
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: shooters and listen to awesome music and then just sit
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: around and soak up each other's awesomeness? Oh, let's see.
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: Of my other.
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: Random people. Again, we're not big enough to actually have
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: an HR department, but I constantly, well, I've worked a
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: couple of places in a row now that every day
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: I say things like, um, HR department. We're constantly saying
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: things that would get people fired. And I'm like, if
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: only I worked somewhere that had an HR department, but
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: I don't. So, and I'm fine with it actually. Like,
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: I think it's hilarious, but like, Somehow I'm the only
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: one that's self-aware enough to be like, you know, this
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: conversation would get you fired anywhere else, right? Just you
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: having this conversation right now. I had one three, two
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: to three days ago that I was just like, if
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: we even discussed what it is you were discussing in
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: detail right now, you would get fired at any corporate place.
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: It was, yeah.
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: Oh, I worked at a store that I was one of.
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: Six guys. There were probably 20 employees in the whole store.
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: And the things that the women would discuss, I'm like,
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: I'm cool, but damn.
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: No, that's the thing. Almost everywhere I've worked, a good
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: amount of my coworkers have been women. This specific one
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: I'm thinking of, it was three people in a room
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: the other day. I was the only guy. And they
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: were saying things that would have gotten anybody fired. Very
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: specific things, we'll say.
• 58:56
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: Very inappropriate, specific things. I've heard that too.
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: Women are gross. Yeah, for sure.
• 59:04
  Speaker 6: Yeah, my friends talk about that stuff all the time.
• 59:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, which is fine, but again, it's weird. that I
• 59:10
  Speaker 2: was the only one that went guys you know yeah
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: I mean never mind go on with your conversation.
• 59:17
  Speaker 6: The way I've seen it you know for the history
• 59:20
  Speaker 6: of all time we've always been on the bad end
• 59:22
  Speaker 6: of sexual harassment in the workplace sure so I'm reclaiming enjoy.
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: It I mean I get that's why I'm like I'm
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: not gonna be like clutching at my pearls, because A,
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: I don't care, and B, yeah, it's gone the other
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: way forever. But I'm like, just so you know, you
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: can't normally talk about.
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: This stuff, right? I'm just saying, if you have a
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: group of guys standing around telling dirty stories, at least
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: one of them has the decency to look around.
• 59:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the women do not care. They're just like, let
• 59:52
  Speaker 2: me tell you about this one time. Launch into another story.
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: Don't matter who's in there.
• 59:57
  Speaker 11: So.
• 59:59
  Speaker 2: If I had an HR department, which I don't. But
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: I was trying to immediately, again, immediately, the first one
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: that came to me, I'm hiring Bonnie Hunt. Specifically, and
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: I was trying to remember, because it's funny that I
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: quote it almost daily. Granted, I'm saying to a dog,
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: but as I'm taking my dog out, and we're walking,
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: and we're walking, and we're stopping. And I was like,
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: was that the American president? It's in Dave's. Yeah. It's
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: the other president around that same time movie. But Bonnie
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: Hunt was in a ton of stuff at that time. So, yeah,
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: I was trying to remember. I was like, which one
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: is she, the tour guide? It's like she's super efficient,
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: kind of no nonsense, kind of not really listening to
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 2: what's going on half the time anyway. Yeah.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: But I feel like she would have a really foul
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: mouth for an HR person.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: I feel like she also knows when like you don't
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: see her throwing that out when the group of kids
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: that she's walking around are. But I feel like back
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 2: in the break room probably lets in lays out some
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: pretty scary stuff. But I feel like she would also
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: just sort of like she seemed very official in the
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: job as which I checked her credit is a White
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: House tour guide. They didn't even give her a name.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: So as she bumps up into the system, she gets
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: into the company and gets into the HR department. Those
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: are usually the higher end jobs. So she gets a
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: nice job out of it. But I also then started
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: working in like all of the scenarios that come up
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: are going to be like movie related as well. So
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: she'll be like, so anyway, as a new hire here,
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: first want to tell you that bust over there of
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: Sean Connery. Don't break it open. There's black goo in there.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: It causes all kinds of problems for me. So let
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: me just don't. Just stay away from the bust, all right?
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: And the Sour Patch Kids, too. We've had a few
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: reports of that. But mostly don't break that bust open.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 2: One of my many scenarios that come into it.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 6: I'm changing my store name to LaserDisc and Sour Patch
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 6: Kids Depot.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: I love that.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 2: Continuing to hit this. I'm like, I'm driving the Sour
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: Patch Kids into the ground.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: I'm over here trying to come up with movie names
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: or video store names. And I feel like I'm coming
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: up with ones that are good in the real world,
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: but aren't funny. Like movies at home, movies to go.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: But I don't want to own that.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: If we want to, this is just a random, but
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: it just reminded me of like weird. Like just matter
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 2: of fact kind of names. But then I never really
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 2: knew what their situation was. There was going way back
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 2: when I was a kid, there was one that was
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: sort of seemed super mom and pop because there was like,
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 2: I don't know if there was just one or if
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 2: there was maybe two in town. I feel like there
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 2: was two because they had commercials. So I think there
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 2: were like two and enough money to buy a commercial.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 2: But their name was Movies Tonight. And they had a
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 2: theme song that was Movies Tonight on video. And I
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: don't remember what the hell the rest of it went.
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 2: But I number one thought it was like, again, very.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 5: Yep.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: Like, go get yourself a movie tonight. Good thinking. Name
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 2: that store. Good for you. But the funniest story with
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: them was I remember when I was. a little bit older,
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 2: just dork enough to be like, I want to watch
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 2: the Oscars. So I am watching the Oscars in the
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: middle of the, I mean, which for the more highbrow crowd,
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 2: that's the Superbowl of the entertainment year. So I'm assuming
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 2: the ads go for around the same price, a little
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 2: less maybe than Superbowl ads, but that's gotta be a huge,
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 2: like bringing in your corporate accounts to like cover those.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 2: And then in the middle of it, they bust into
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: this Movies Tonight commercial that is.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 9: Do.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: You remember the technology of living lips? They're basically like
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 2: the still image and they put human lips talking into
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 2: the cartoon.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: Kind of like the old clutch cargo cartoon.
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 2: Exactly like that. Only classic movie people. So I remember...
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 2: A version of Humphrey Bogart. And then I'm going, hey, sure.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 2: It's like, calm down and rent somebody. And it switched
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 2: to a bunch of different people.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: Why does this sound familiar?
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 2: I think I've seen this commercial. And that's what I'm like,
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: it busted into that in the middle of the Oscars
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 2: more than once. And the only thing, even at the time,
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 2: the only thing I could think of was, if you've
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 2: seen Used Cars... I'm pretty sure that's how they got
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 2: this commercial. I think some elaborate scam to bust into
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 2: the satellite feed and beam their own commercial into the
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: most watched thing of the night for movie geeks for
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: the year. And that's the only way I can imagine
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 2: that they would let a weird local in my mind,
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 2: unless it was some sort of chain that I didn't
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 2: know about. But yeah, movies tonight. What a weird... Random
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 2: ass memory.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: That's okay. I still remember the phone number from the Mr.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: Gaddy's commercials.
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 2: Advertising works.
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 15: Yeah, it does.
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 2: So, let's see. What else? Again, I feel like we're
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: not big enough to have our own security people. But
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 2: I immediately was just like, well, we're going to have
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 2: a security guard on staff all the time. It's obviously
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 2: Varla from Faster Pussycat Kill Kill. And yes, that uniform
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 2: is her uniform. I mean, just.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: Which ones of ours?
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 2: Dressed in... Well, Tura. Basically, I just want to hang
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 2: out with Tura Sedana all day.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 8: Well, yeah.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: But you've done that.
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 2: And she has to wear the all-in-black and the leather
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 2: boots and leather gloves to just beat people's ass and
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 2: karate chop them if need be because she does do
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: some hi-yah. Hi-yah!
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: Well, nobody's returning their tapes without rewinding them more than once.
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 2: Better... Yeah, you get one warning. She comes over and
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 2: has a little talk with you. And you'll rewind your
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 2: tape after that. So, yeah, we're hanging out with Varla.
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: My security guard was Chris Farley. Specifically, Chris Farley as
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: the bus driver from Billy Madison.
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 2: Just screaming.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: He thinks he's being so slick by eating, you know.
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: By getting into the whole popcorn thing. Him and Liev Schreiber,
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: I swear to God.
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 2: Oh, now if we have a delivery guy that's bringing
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 2: stuff in, and again, if you're mom and pop, you
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 2: probably didn't. Maybe the drinks, because you just get like
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 2: a deal and they bring stuff to your place. But
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 2: I don't want to say Kevin James, but I see
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 2: him pushing a hand cart. He's got a dolly filled
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 2: with stuff and he's coming in the store. I don't
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 2: even know what character he is, but it's Kevin James
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 2: playing him.
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 6: Paul Blart delivery car.
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 2: It could be like Paul Blart gets fired because he's
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 2: a terrible cop. And yeah, he's got to go work
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 2: at some sort of shipping company. That's unusual for Kevin James,
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 2: I'm sure. He didn't do that ever in his career.
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I just, I don't want to, I don't
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 2: want him in there. He's just going to fall down and.
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: knock stuff over, but I just see him coming in
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 2: with a dolly full of drinks and probably Sour Patch Kids.
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 2: I also suspect him for taking some.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: Oh, sure, yeah.
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 2: I jumped ahead to the creepy one, but I didn't
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 2: get into the strange regular customers. I'm thoroughly convinced that
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 2: Seymour from Ghost World comes in and has a special
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 2: order weird movies that none of us have ever heard of.
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 2: And he's like, I mean, you probably haven't heard of it,
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 2: but this one's really good and likes lots of documentaries.
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: He probably has like a big collection of Super 8 films.
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: I see that. But, you know, you can't really get,
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 2: and it's hard to find a good player now, so
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 2: I still got to come in here and rent stuff. So,
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 2: you know, anyway, see if you can get that by
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 2: next week.
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 5: Thanks, bud.
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: They had to borrow my copy to run off a
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: print of this movie.
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I've still got the original, but I'd
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 2: like to rent it if you can get it. I'd
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 2: like to see. i feel a kinship.
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 6: Mine's kind of similar in terms of a customer who
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 6: comes in and requests like really specific weird things but
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 6: it would be um quirky saint claire from waiting for
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 6: guffman played by christopher guest because a that's just my
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 6: favorite movie and he's like my favorite character of all
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 6: time but you know he would come in and want
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 6: like the classic like MGM musical but like he's watched
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 6: all of them a bajillion times so far so now
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 6: he's requesting you get all the weird hard to find
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 6: musicals that nobody wants to watch.
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 2: I'm guessing he starts singing every time he comes.
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 6: Yeah and i hope he would dance too i.
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: Think he starts singing before he comes.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 2: In probably comes in to the store mid-song he can.
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 6: Tell me about his community theater productions We'd be friends,
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 6: I think.
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 2: And the rest of the people are just like, oh, God,
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 2: not this guy.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 6: I'd go see his show.
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 2: Not this guy.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 6: Ooh, maybe he'd recruit me to be in his show.
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 6: That'd be fun.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 2: I'd just see the rest of the employees, though. And
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 2: you're like, what? I like him. And they're like, oh, God.
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 6: He's too nice.
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 2: Please tell him to go.
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 2: Have you any creepy regulars?
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: Leif Schreiber?
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 2: No. He's definitely a weirdo.
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: Lief Schreiber and.
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 2: At least Cotton. You know, he's a little weird.
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: And Crispin Glover.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 2: I was trying to work in a version of, yeah,
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 2: like the George McFly version of Creepy Crispin that just
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 2: sort of hangs around.
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: What's the movie?
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 2: Makes notes all the time. And I don't know what
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 2: he's writing down, but he's always got a notebook.
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: What's the movie where he plays the assassin.
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 6: Charlie's Angels and he pulls out her hand that one yeah.
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: He's constantly sniffing the movies and I don't.
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 6: Know why yeah he doesn't talk and he smells a
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 6: lot of things.
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: Rents a whole lot of like you know German expressionist
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: films which somebody's gotta rent them.
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 2: We'll see along those lines I always have Simone coming
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 2: in asking for French movies from Pee Wee's Big Adventure Oh, la, la.
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 2: Do you have any French movies? She doesn't really speak French,
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 2: but she really wants to learn. And she's only learning
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 2: by renting bad movies. So she's going to get there, though.
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 2: Don't you worry.
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: Hey, I tried to learn French by watching The Goonies
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: with the French soundtrack. And after about 10 minutes, I said,
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: screw this. I'm just watching Goonies. I'm sure it was
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: going to work I mean It was one of my
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: favorite movies I knew what they were talking about.
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 2: Anyway So yeah Simone I definitely needed her to come
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: in Constantly requesting some sort of weird French movie That
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 2: even she's never heard of Back to the creepy I
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 2: know I was like We gotta have a weird creepy
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 2: old lady Because there's always weird creepy old ladies Out
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 2: there in the world So my initial one was Mrs. Kirsch,
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 2: which actually I believe you said recently, Nora, you'd watched
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 2: the It's. Yeah. It chapter two when Jessica Chastain goes
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 2: to visit her old apartment.
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: That lady.
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 2: Because I feel like she almost can pull off being normal.
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 2: And then you're midway into a conversation and you realize
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 2: you're dealing with a weirdo. Do you have any movies
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 2: with Cary Grant in them? I like Charade, but... Like
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 2: two minutes of silence. I wanted more of his romantic comedy.
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 2: Like you're just like, oh God, this lady. So weird
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 2: old lady.
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 6: Her scene is way better in the book than in
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 6: the movie and I'm still mad about it.
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: I think I remember the scene. I haven't seen the movie,
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: but I remember the scene from the book where the
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: old lady with the tea.
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's great. I stared at that book for hours.
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 2: It didn't do anything. But when I stared at the movie,
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 2: it told me a story.
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: So, movie's better. You raise a valid point.
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 2: Just saying. You can't compare the two. You do a
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 2: totally different thing.
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 5: True that.
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 6: Another good old lady would be the one from Drag
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 6: Me to Hell. She'd be a good creepy old lady.
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 2: She'd probably vomit black goo into your mouth. A little
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 2: gypsy woman. It would be really disgusting.
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: See, my old lady customer, and I would look forward
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: to her visits every day, would be the old lady
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: from Any Which Way But Loose, which I.
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 2: Don't remember her name. Now I'm just picturing Clyde coming in. Well,
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 2: she comes in with her occasion. Don't mess with him.
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 2: He comes in here for popcorn. He leaves. He doesn't
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 2: knock anything over, as long as you let him have popcorn.
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 2: You don't? He's going to tear the fuck out of
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 2: this place. Rankings are freakishly strong. Don't mess with him.
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 2: Just let him have his popcorn. Oh, Clyde.
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: Unpleasant end that he was dealt.
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 2: I also, the last place, we were right in the
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 2: middle of a place that has lots of random homeless people.
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 2: So I'm like, well, we need to have a bum
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 2: hanging out up front. So I was like, well, I
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 2: want Red the bum. From Back to the Future.
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: That's who I would have picked.
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 2: Because he doesn't mess with anybody. He just wants to
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 2: like get drunk and go to sleep. And like he
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 2: gets upset when other people disturb him. Like he's not
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 2: bugging anybody.
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: Which is reasonable.
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 2: Keeps to himself. And always kind of questioned like one
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 2: of two things. Because Marty knows him by name. So
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 2: I'm like either everyone in the small town knows the
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 2: like one bum they have.
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 1: Well he used to be mayor.
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 2: That's questionable. I've heard some people think that, and I
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 2: thought Bob Gale was like, we didn't write it that way.
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 2: So I think it's just been adopted by fans now. Nope,
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 2: that's the story. I don't care what you creators did,
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 2: shut up.
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: He has the same name as the mayor of 1955.
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 2: I don't even think that was really his name. Again,
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 2: I think in the scene, the.
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: red well that was that's just poor storytelling and i'll
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: be damned if anyone's gonna tell me that back to
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: the future is poor storytelling.
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 2: Well no i kind of like the the story i
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 2: heard recently was the referring to him as red was
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 2: an ad lib by michael j fox and he just
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 2: said hey red you look great and that was all
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 2: just random michael j fox being michael j fox and
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 2: it was just like well that's kind of adorable because
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 2: he's michael j fox and like yeah But yeah, I
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 2: liked it, yeah, because Red just sort of keeps to himself,
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 2: and eventually you'll wake him up, and he'll be like,
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 2: crazy drunk movie renters, and then he'll go back to sleep,
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 2: and he just keeps to himself.
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 4: I like that about Red.
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess towns don't really have that one town
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: drunk anymore that everybody knows.
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, now there's just hundreds of people. So... We're trying
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 2: to put a less tragic spin on it. He's a
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 2: lovable guy that sleeps out in front of the store. Oh,
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 2: let's see. Have we hit most of ours?
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: I think so.
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 2: Does yours have a special event?
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 2: Specifically, as soon as I thought, I was like, It's
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 2: Rex Manning Day. So like, what is your, that's in
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 2: your music store, but in your video store, what is
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 2: your equivalent to Rex Manning Day?
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 6: I want like a cult slash B horror movie festival
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 6: hosted by Peter Vincent of Fright Night, obviously.
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 2: All right. I am totally sold on this idea.
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 6: And they can like live broadcast it to the public
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 6: access channels of him doing his little bits in between.
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 6: It'd be very fun.
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 2: Or do we exist now? Because then you could just
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 2: stream it all to YouTube.
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 6: That too.
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 2: Or some Facebook Live bullshit, or I don't know, something. Instagram.
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 2: Peter Vincent in the modern day, doing his TikTok dances
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 2: and whatnot. I don't know which version I'd want.
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 6: I'm fine with either.
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 2: Again, that's how I was with the other one. I'm like, actually,
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 2: both work. Just the character as a whole. You can
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 2: insert either version.
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 6: That's nice.
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: We tried wet Wednesdays. All it was was Ernest spraying
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: people down with a fire hose, which sounded great on paper,
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 1: but didn't really translate. We had to replace so many windows,
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: not even our windows either.
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 2: Neighboring windows. That is really getting out of control with
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 2: the hose, man.
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 6: I thought it would be like you're offering people martinis
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 6: with everything coming on Wednesday.
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: That's what I thought. It was Ernest's idea.
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 2: You really should have read through the paperwork. On paper,
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 2: turns out it wasn't just a saying. He actually typed
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 2: it up. You're like, you're approved. And next thing you know,
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 2: breaking shit.
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: No, I showed up to pick something up, and there's
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: just wet people everywhere.
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 2: These movies aren't going to work. They're all soggy. I
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 2: was thinking, again, this is not to spoil anything in
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 2: this movie. This is just a minor detail in it
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 2: that I thought was hilarious. In the last Blockbuster documentary,
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 2: one of the guys they're talking to is talking about
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 2: when he actually worked at the local one. And he's like,
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 2: there was this girl that used to come in and
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 2: rent stuff. And she looked just like Jamie Girtz. So
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 2: we started trying to have like a personal appearance with
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 2: Jamie Girtz and get this girl to come in and
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 2: pretend to be Jamie Girtz. And I was like, would
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 2: anybody care?
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 1: First of all, who's Jamie Girtz?
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 2: Most people wouldn't care if real Jamie Girtz was there.
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 2: Have you not seen The Lost Boys? Come on now.
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: Yes, but.
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 2: Did you not watch Soul of Babies last week? Because
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 2: that was, I did actually. I found a copy of
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 2: it on DVD and I was like, man, I have
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 2: not seen that since Cable when I was five.
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 1: If I'm being honest, my focus on The Lost Boys
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: was not the girls. It was The Lost Boys.
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 2: You just like to whisper. Michael Michael Michael.
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 6: She looks really familiar but I don't know she's in a.
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 2: Ton of stuff like she's in I mean she's in
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 2: like Crossroads Solar Babies Lost Boys like she was like
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 2: a huge.
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 1: Actress in the 80s she looks like this is who
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: we'll call if Courtney Cox is unavailable.
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 2: She's way cooler than Courtney Cobb.
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 1: Oh, I agree.
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 15: I agree.
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: Like, I already am starting to remember her for some.
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, she was in a ton of stuff, movie-wise, and then, like,
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 2: in the... I feel like maybe early 2000s, she was
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 2: on a sitcom.
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: She was in Less Than Zero.
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 2: See, she's in a huge.
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, she was on Still Standing.
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 2: See, that's the one. That's the one. Oh, yeah, I've
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 2: already forgot about The Neighbors. That did not last long.
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 1: She is part owner of the Atlanta Hawks of the
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 1: National Basketball Association.
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 2: Interesting.
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: Already have lost interest.
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 2: So I like that idea of finding someone that comes
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 2: in the store that kind of looks like a celebrity
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 2: and then trying to sucker people into thinking it's the
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 2: actual celebrity. Because then the guy's telling the story and
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 2: he's like, they found a picture of them with like.
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 2: poster board going, Jamie Girtz is coming. And then there's
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 2: a picture of the girl and he's like, yeah, she
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 2: really doesn't look that much like Jamie Girtz. And they
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 2: show her and I'm like, not really. I mean, similar
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 2: enough that I could be like, oh, I see what
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 2: you're saying, but I wouldn't mistake her for Jamie Girtz. So,
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 2: I want to have a fake Jamie Girtz day and
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 2: then see if real Jamie Girtz shows up to have
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 2: a rumble or something.
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 6: That could be fun if you just made a bunch
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 6: of different days for random... actors that nobody really knows
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 6: and then maybe one day one.
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 2: Of them will show up well then i'll be like
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 2: thanks again if we were in the real world i
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 2: was like now who do we actually know that we
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 2: could sucker in i'm like oh we're having a doug
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 2: jay yes doug day's coming up and i figured you
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 2: would be on board.
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 6: With that so we.
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 2: Will also have a doug jones day and as long
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 2: as we like you know i'm sure we'll have to
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 2: pay to fly him on in and stuff like that
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 2: gets get him a nice hotel but He'd probably be
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 2: up for it. We can talk him into it.
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 6: He would do it.
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 4: I think so.
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 6: I love him.
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 2: We'll pitch it next time we see it. This video
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 2: store that we don't have, will you come do a
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 2: Doug day?
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 6: I'm sure he'd be like, what?
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 2: He'd be like, yeah. Wait, what are you talking about?
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 1: I know which Doug you're talking about, but I'm picturing
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 1: Doug the cartoon character.
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 5: Oh.
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 2: I don't want him at all.
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 1: Oh.
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 8: Oh.
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 2: Doug Jones Day. That's how you wake up every day now.
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 6: It's the best day of the year.
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 2: You go sliding around your house. Doug Jones Day. Getting
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 2: so excited.
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 6: It'd be made up of watching the weirdest things. Be like,
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 6: I'm going to watch that really old McDonald's commercial where
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 6: he has a moon for a head.
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: I keep forgetting that was him.
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 6: I'm going to watch Hocus Pocus. I'm going to watch
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 6: some Guillermo del Toro movies. Some combination.
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 2: Every Guillermo del Toro movie.
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 6: Watch that episode of Masters of Horror where he played
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 6: a Wendigo. He's in it.
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 2: He's in it. Tons of Star Trek episodes now. Oh, yeah,
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 2: Star Trek. That's a huge gig these days.
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 6: Apparently, he was almost picked to play Pennywise, too.
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 2: I can see that. I can see that.
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 6: Which would have been great.
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 2: Along those lines, though, back to the other version. You
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 2: brought up earlier today that you might be able to
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 2: hook me up with an in-store appearance of Clint Howard.
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, yes.
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 2: Please enlighten them.
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 1: Well, at work, I recently discovered there's a guy who
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 1: works in a different department than me who looks exactly
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 1: like Clint Howard. And I haven't actually spoken to him,
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 1: but I have heard him talk to other people, and
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 1: he only speaks in Spanish.
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 2: Spanish Clint Howard is going to bring people in.
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 1: Every time I see that guy, I feel not so
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 1: bad about being at work.
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 2: I'm going to start working on the poster boards now.
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 6: You should write him a little card. You brighten my days.
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 6: From a guy you don't know. Thank you for looking
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 6: like Clint Howard. Bet you don't know who that is.
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 2: He just takes it.
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 1: He seems like a nice guy, so he'd probably be like.
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 5: Ah, yeah.
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 2: We can lure you in with free Sour Patch Kids.
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 2: There we go. So I'm going to start working on
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 2: the poster boards now. Come see the Ice Cream Man.
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 2: People will be like, do we get ice cream? You're misunderstanding.
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 1: Out of all of the blockbuster movies. That's the one
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 1: I'm going with. That's what you pick.
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 1: Interesting.
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 2: That's how the line's going to be out the door
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 2: once they know the Ice Cream Man's coming.
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: Not even Come See Gentleman, or the Star of Gentleman.
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 2: Nope. Nobody remembers that show. Or Circus Boy.
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 11: Or no, wait.
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 1: Was that Mickey Dolenz? That was Mickey Dolenz. Never mind.
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 2: Water Boy. Remember that guy who rented a limo in
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 2: Night Shift? That guy. Remember that guy in Apollo 13
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 2: that was like not really running the show? That guy.
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 2: Remember that?
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  Speaker 10: Hold on.
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 2: Let me run down the list of his brother's movies.
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 2: Remember that?
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  Speaker 1: Remember Cocoon.
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  Speaker 2: That guy.
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  Speaker 1: Did Ron Howard do Splash?
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought so. I don't remember him being in that, though.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure he is. There are people that he's not.
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 2: There's weird things, but then somehow he still worked him
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 2: into Solo. Figure out the other ones he didn't. How
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 2: do you get him in Solo, but you can't put
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 2: him in this random regular movie? I guess he was
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 2: on a available.
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  Speaker 1: When I did watch Ice Cream Man, the whole time
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  Speaker 1: I was sitting there hoping for a ron howard cameo
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 1: it only seems fair.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah i guess he'd have to direct it did he
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  Speaker 2: direct it i sadly i don't know if he directed
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 2: it i feel like not but i could be wrong.
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  Speaker 15: Oh god all right what other specific notes about your
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  Speaker 15: store do we need to round this insanity up i
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 15: went through all.
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  Speaker 6: Mine yeah Ooh, it's got to have that fun carpet
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 6: with black background and then really bright confetti.
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  Speaker 2: All over it. I want that carpet. Mine might have
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 2: film reels spooling around the room. Those are really overwhelming
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 2: once you get into a giant room. I do feel
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 2: like one of them here had that. I'm remembering as
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 2: part of a chain, and I'm assuming the entire chain
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 2: bought enough to get this carpet made up, so it actually...
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 2: It had stars and film reels spooling around the place
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 2: and actual loose film going around. Once you got in,
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 2: because they had a pretty big store, it was a
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 2: lot to undertake. Just aesthetically, it was overpowering. I'm a
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 2: geek that likes random film anywhere. You can spool some
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 2: film up here or there, but this was a lot
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 2: to take.
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 1: Do you all let people, let the public use your bathrooms?
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 2: That was always troubling.
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 1: We used to, but they kept running off with the
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 1: little Oscar statuettes that we.
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 2: Had attached to the keys. Not the keys.
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 1: They'd leave the keys. They'd just take the little statues.
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 2: Again, it was not a fancy one in the most
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 2: recent outing, but it was always weird because they had
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 2: decorated it. with like random cutouts of movie stars and
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 2: again their versions of movie stars which was probably like
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 2: here's a picture of jamie kurtz but like it was
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 2: always like weird random stuff it's not like it was
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 2: like mainstream stuff because they were a weird bunch of
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 2: people obviously so um yeah they just had all kinds
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 2: of weird stuff on the walls in there so it
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 2: was always weird to me that like some of the
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 2: regulars would be like hey man can i use the
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 2: bathroom and then they'd let them and i'd be like
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 2: gotta explain that they walk in there expecting a normal
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 2: public restroom and you're just like the hell's going on
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 2: in here.
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 6: They're all watching you pee.
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 2: I mean some people are into that but they're usually
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 2: in the beaded room.
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 12: I'd also feel like it depends on which celebrity is
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 12: watching me pee i'm not okay with any of them
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 12: but i think i would be better with some of them.
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 2: David jamie cover your eyes.
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 6: Clint Howard.
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 2: Oh, no, I'm fine with Clint Howard. That seems all right.
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 1: Like, I feel like if Matthew McConaughey were in the
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 1: bathroom with me while I was doing my business.
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 2: He wouldn't care.
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 1: Like, he'd just talk about, hey, all right, all right,
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 1: whatever we were talking about before.
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 2: Just be handing you some toilet paper. You know, be like,
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 2: hold on, bud, I got you. Another roll. So now
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 2: we're inviting random celebrities to come use our bathroom. Sure.
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 2: I don't want the public to, but if you're in
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 2: a movie, you can come use our bathroom. I think
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 2: that's our policy. Only employees and movie stars can use
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 2: our bathroom. General public, you're out the door. You can
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 2: go hit the McDonald's down the street. Was it all
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 2: that you dreamed of? oh yes because i literally did
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 2: and i didn't know where we were going so it was.
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 6: Harder than i thought it was i was like why
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 6: am i forgetting every movie that i've ever seen in
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 6: my entire.
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 2: Life that's why mine is such a weird accumulation because
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 2: when i tried to think of them it didn't work
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 2: it was only the ones that i was just like
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 2: the first dumb thought i was like well yep obviously
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 2: that obviously everybody first thing they think of is bonnie
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 2: hunt sure.
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 1: I mean No, I put a lot into the Ernest character,
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 1: possibly a little too much.
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 2: You are writing a separate story now, is what you're saying.
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 2: He's going to have his own spinoff out of this
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 2: fictional thing that never happened.
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 1: Which, really, I feel like you could just take any
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 1: Ernest movie and change the setting to a video store.
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 2: I'm surprised he didn't get to that one. I mean,
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 2: he went to Africa, but he didn't go to a
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 2: video store? It seems a little crazy.
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 11: I mean.
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 1: He saved Christmas, for God's sake.
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you'd think after that people would stop giving him
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 2: a hard time. But next thing you know, he's back
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 2: in jail. All right, wrapping up our earnest talk there.
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 2: I feel like it's time to round this one out.
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 2: If you enjoyed this weird little journey, tell us what
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 2: your store is.
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 1: You know, write in.
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 2: Hey, you can record it. Send us a voicemail. Send
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 2: us a WAV file, MP3.
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 6: Laser disc.
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 2: If you can put it on Laserdisc, I'm going to
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 2: get out some of my choice cuts for Nora next time.
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 2: Be like, were you looking to watch The Reflecting Skin
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 2: on Laserdisc? Because I do own it. Thank you very much. So, yeah.
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 1: The Reflecting Skin.
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 2: We should put that on the list. Someone make that
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 2: your choice and put the reflecting skin on the list.
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 1: Have you seen the live action Super Mario Brothers with
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 1: Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo? I love that movie. And
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 1: Dennis Hopper. I know you do.
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 2: And by the way, I'm pretty sure I have it
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 2: on my laser disc.
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 1: You do have it on laser disc. I watched it
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 1: at your house on laser disc.
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 2: Why did I forget that and yet I'm not surprised?
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 2: That does sound like me.
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 6: What a cast.
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 2: Samantha Mathis, thank you very much. Daisy is my girl. Anyway,
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 2: so yeah, we want to hear what your video store
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 2: is like. I've thought about if anyone cares about this idea,
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 2: we can open it up and I can go to
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 2: other people and be like, all right, now you give
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 2: me some. Any of the other rotating weirdos on this
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 2: show and be like, all right, come up with a
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 2: store for us and we'll continue this series together. That
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 2: no one asked for. That invaded my unconscious mind. So,
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 2: if you're one of those people that enjoyed it, let
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 2: us know and give us your picks. So, email in now.
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 2: Anything else to pass along?
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 1: I got nothing.
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 2: Free popcorn?
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 1: Yes, free popcorn.
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 2: Free popcorn.
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 1: With purchase.
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 2: With purchase. Cotton.
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 2: Otherwise, that about does it. We will return next time.
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 2: Same geek feed. Thanks for listening. Stay away from the
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 2: damn silent patch.
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 5: Bye, everybody.
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 2: When I walked.
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 11: Into the room I wasn't thinking anything but maybe I
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 11: would rent a flick that a guy would As I'm
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 11: talking to myself I saw her reach for the top
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 11: shelf right for the fade of black that I knew.
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 2: It was over I fall apart.
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 11: Cause you've got a late charge on my heart If
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 11: it's alright with you We'll meet in the previously viewed
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 11: Sometimes I try to replay.
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 6: It in my mind But who.
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 11: Am I kidding you I won't forget that time in
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 11: the video store.
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 6: That time in the video store.
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 11: Now here we are, in the second verse, looking worse
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 11: than the first, don't wanna end up like my man
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 11: Fred Durst, cause he.
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 2: Did it all for the nookie.
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 11: When she looked up, I thought I must be dreaming,
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 11: she had the eyes of an angel even, think.
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 2: I might have saw wings, I'm leaving. I fall apart.
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 11: Cause you've got a late charge on my heart If
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 11: it's alright with you, we'll meet in.
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 2: The previous review.
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 14: Sometimes I try to.
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 11: Play it in my mind But who am I kidding you,
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 11: I won't forget that time in the video store.
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 1: That time in the video store.
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 11: Every time I think I see you I won't.
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 9: Forget that nobody else could.
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 11: Ever do what you did to me On that night
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 11: I saw.
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 2: You there so unexpected I could care less.
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 9: Who else was there I've been infected So infected by you.
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 1: Wow, apparently there's a video on YouTube that's titled, Man
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 1: Shoveling Snow on a Unicycle, Dressed as Darth Vader While
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 1: Playing Flaming Bagpipes.
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 2: So, I know what we're watching next week. We're walking,
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 2: we're walking, and we're stopping.
• 1:35:07
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• 1:35:10
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• 1:35:14
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• 1:35:19
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