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M-O-O-N... that spells "made for TV movie." The Stand: 1994 - part 1 and 2 · Midnight Movie Theatre

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  Speaker 1: Oh How I Love to Love The nineteen ninety four
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  Speaker 1: ABC mini series The Stand, written by Stephen King, directed
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  Speaker 1: by Mick Garris. Originally, this was supposed to be a
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  Speaker 1: feature length movie in the eighties, directed by George Ramiro,
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  Speaker 1: but that would never come to fruition. The Stand is
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  Speaker 1: about a man made plague that's let loose on accident
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  Speaker 1: by the United States military, and it kills a little
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  Speaker 1: over ninety nine percent of the population. Everybody gets wiped out,
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  Speaker 1: they get sick, they start choking on their own vomit.
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  Speaker 1: The government's line to everybody, and as that progresses, we
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  Speaker 1: follow along our surviving characters. The surviving characters are met
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: with dreams and visions of an old black lady playing
• 1:04
  Speaker 1: guitar that makes her own bread. She's one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: eight years old in the book, and I think in
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  Speaker 1: the series she's one hundred and six, Mother Abigail Or.
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  Speaker 1: They're also visited by Randall Flagg, who's an evil guy
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  Speaker 1: who he's not really the devil, but he seems to
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  Speaker 1: be well acquainted with the devil or evil shit, if
• 1:27
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Randall flag he's an evil guy.
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  Speaker 1: He visits them in their dreams too, and he scares them.
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  Speaker 1: And as the survivors decide whether or not they're going
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  Speaker 1: to go to Nebraska or Boulder, Colorado with Mother Abigail
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  Speaker 1: or Randall Flagg over in Las Vegas, Party Town, USA,
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  Speaker 1: we kind of see how these characters develop, how their
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  Speaker 1: relationships change, their personal grievances start to affect their living situations,
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  Speaker 1: and they basically try to rebuild the population. Civilization fuck this,
• 2:01
  Speaker 1: and they slowly start to rebuild civilization, whether it's the
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  Speaker 1: authoritarian civilization in Las Vegas under Randall flags them or
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  Speaker 1: under Mother Abigail's guide in Boulder, Colorado at the Free Zone.
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  Speaker 1: And one of the things that surprised me about the
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  Speaker 1: stand I just read it for the first time or
• 2:20
  Speaker 1: listened to the audiobook for the first time fairly recently,
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  Speaker 1: is how biblical this story is and how religious the
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  Speaker 1: whole thing feels. And because it's a Stephen King story,
• 2:31
  Speaker 1: I assumed when there were religious themes that it would
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  Speaker 1: almost be sort of like poking at those religious themes
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  Speaker 1: and maybe like looking at them in a negative light.
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  Speaker 1: But really it lifts up the idea of religion and
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  Speaker 1: kind of you know, having a moral compass and whatnot,
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  Speaker 1: which I thought was really interesting. And there is a
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  Speaker 1: lot of nuances there between the characters that are considered
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  Speaker 1: good and the characters that are considered bad in the
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  Speaker 1: book anyway, and the mini series, from what I'm seeing
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  Speaker 1: so far, not so much. But we'll get into that
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  Speaker 1: a little more as we go through this. I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to go back to the book all the time
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  Speaker 1: because I think I'm going to have to do a
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  Speaker 1: separate video comparing the mini series to the book altogether.
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  Speaker 1: But I think I think it's going to be unavoidable
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  Speaker 1: to talk about the book while we're going into the
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  Speaker 1: mini series. So so that's a really simple, summed up
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  Speaker 1: way of explaining what the stand is about, what the
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  Speaker 1: story's about. I felt like that kind of touches on
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the little themes in in the bigger picture.
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  Speaker 1: I did watch the mini series before reading the book.
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  Speaker 1: I remember watching the mini series when I was a
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  Speaker 1: little kid. It came out in nineteen ninety four. I
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  Speaker 1: was four years old when it came out, so I'm
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  Speaker 1: assuming it was probably after that. I'm assuming I was
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  Speaker 1: at least seven or eight or something like that. I
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  Speaker 1: can't really remember for sure, but this is one of
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  Speaker 1: the Stephen King mini series that didn't really stick with me.
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  Speaker 1: There's really only like a couple of things about this
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  Speaker 1: that I remembered, and I never really went back to
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  Speaker 1: it and rewatched it. I haven't watched it as an
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  Speaker 1: adult or anything like that, and I've never read the
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  Speaker 1: book before up until this last year, so the whole
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  Speaker 1: thing was pretty new to me, to be honest. There's
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  Speaker 1: a couple of scenes that, like I said, that stood
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  Speaker 1: out to me that we'll get into. Most of them
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  Speaker 1: are just like the creepy evil hospital scenes. If you've
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  Speaker 1: seen it, you know what I'm talking about. But for
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  Speaker 1: some reason, those always stuck with me. I couldn't even
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  Speaker 1: really remember. I knew it was about like a plague
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  Speaker 1: or a sickness or something like that, but I couldn't
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  Speaker 1: remember exactly what it's about. I kind of remember Randall
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  Speaker 1: Flagg too, like the evil guy, and I remember Gary Sinise,
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  Speaker 1: and that's about it, just because Gary Sinise always stands out,
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  Speaker 1: and we're just going to be talking about part one
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  Speaker 1: and part two. I believe this is the Plague and
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  Speaker 1: Dreams are these two chapters of the mini series from
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  Speaker 1: what I've seen to them so far. Comparatively, I would say,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, obviously the book is better, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's just going to I feel like there's
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  Speaker 1: not too many cases where the book's not going to
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  Speaker 1: be better because really the biggest thing about this story
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  Speaker 1: are the characters in the book just get so much
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  Speaker 1: character development, and that's really what it spends most of
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  Speaker 1: its time on. I would say, is just getting to
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  Speaker 1: know this big cast of characters. After watching these parts
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  Speaker 1: in the mini series, I almost feel like it's best
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  Speaker 1: if you would have read the book first before getting
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  Speaker 1: into this, because they kind of skim over a lot
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  Speaker 1: of the interesting things about these characters. I mean, there's
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  Speaker 1: still I feel like they still do them justice. They
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  Speaker 1: do a really good job of like certain characters anyway,
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  Speaker 1: Like I think Stu's really well done, but some of
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  Speaker 1: the other ones are kind of lacking, Like honestly, like
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  Speaker 1: even some of the other main characters like Larry, Harold, Franny. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to kind of go through each character and
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  Speaker 1: how their story develops in these two parts, and that's
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  Speaker 1: kind of I think, how we're gonna break this down,
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  Speaker 1: because I don't know how else to do it other
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  Speaker 1: than to go beat by beat but the story really
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  Speaker 1: cuts around so much that it's it would feel a
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  Speaker 1: little jumbled. I think to kind of go beat by
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  Speaker 1: b throughout the whole movie for six hours. It's a
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  Speaker 1: six hour long movie, by the way. That's probably why
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  Speaker 1: I never watched it again. To be honest, I lost
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  Speaker 1: a lot of faith in these mini series after the
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  Speaker 1: Shining mini series. I remember watching that one in Rose Red. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: I love the It mini series. That one was one
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  Speaker 1: of my favorite movies as a kid. But I think
• 6:21
  Speaker 1: after the Shining mini series, I was just like, maybe
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  Speaker 1: we don't need to watch any of these anymore. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: there's better things out there to do with our time.
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  Speaker 1: So let's start this thing off. The first character we're
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  Speaker 1: going to see here is a guy named Campion. Basically,
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  Speaker 1: we see that the plague is accidentally released in this
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  Speaker 1: military facility. This guy fucking realizes what's going on, and
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  Speaker 1: he grabs his family and he books at the fuck
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  Speaker 1: out of here. He grabs his wife and his daughter, hits
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  Speaker 1: the car, just barely beats the gate before it closes,
• 6:47
  Speaker 1: and he drives all the way to East Texas, where
• 6:50
  Speaker 1: he runs into Stu Redman, who's going to be one
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  Speaker 1: of our main characters in this book, the Big Dog,
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  Speaker 1: I would say overall. So this guy Campion, he's sick
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  Speaker 1: as fuck. He's driving towards the gas station where Stu
• 7:01
  Speaker 1: and his friends are hanging out. He's getting ready to
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  Speaker 1: crash into the damn gas pumps, and Stu's like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: turn off the gas pumps, you know. And this is
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  Speaker 1: just the first example we get of Stu being calm,
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  Speaker 1: cool and collected and kind of always knowing what to do,
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  Speaker 1: you know, when most people would panic in that situation.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone else is like, well, what the fuck's that guy doing.
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  Speaker 1: He's gonna run into the gas pumps and kill us
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  Speaker 1: all stud just like, hit the pumps, Hit the pumps,
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  Speaker 1: and he fucking flicks the switch, saves the day, just
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  Speaker 1: like the Big Dig hero that he's going to be
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  Speaker 1: throughout the whole story. So they run out there, they
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  Speaker 1: find this guy. He's sick as fuck and he's fucking
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  Speaker 1: he's oozing, his neck's all swollen up, and his family's
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  Speaker 1: in the car and they're dead, and he's still like,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta save my family. You gotta save them, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I mean. And I don't think he even
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  Speaker 1: realizes that they're toast. But then the thing that caught
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  Speaker 1: me in this in the mini series is he immediately
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  Speaker 1: starts talking about the dark Man to Stu. He's just like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: when we were driving here, there was a guy in
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  Speaker 1: the back seat. We weren't alone the whole time. He
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  Speaker 1: was a dark man, you know what I'm saying. And
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  Speaker 1: if I had my soundboard right now, I'd do like
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  Speaker 1: a sting there really emphasize like, this dark Man's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be important, Stu. You're gonna want to remember this dark man. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: he's evil. He's gonna be a big deal in the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the book or the movie. The mini series,
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  Speaker 1: the ABC mini series from nineteen ninety four. So then
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  Speaker 1: we see the next day, I believe, we see Stu
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  Speaker 1: and all of his friends. They get rounded up by
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  Speaker 1: the military. They're like, hey, you motherfuckers were exposed to
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  Speaker 1: some sick shit. You're gonna need to come with us.
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  Speaker 1: And so they take them to do tests on him
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  Speaker 1: and stuff like that, and basically, slowly but surely, all
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  Speaker 1: of Stu's friends die in this military testing facility. It's
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  Speaker 1: like a center for disease control type of situation. Between
• 8:45
  Speaker 1: all that, we do have a minor character pop in,
• 8:48
  Speaker 1: but a major person in horror history, a fella named
• 8:54
  Speaker 1: Joe Bob Briggs. I'm familiar with the guy Joe Bob
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  Speaker 1: Briggs is in this movie. And he goes there and
• 9:00
  Speaker 1: he kind of warns them like, hey, there's been some
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  Speaker 1: military trucks in town. You know what I'm saying. And
• 9:05
  Speaker 1: the whole time the guys that are talking to him
• 9:07
  Speaker 1: are sneezing and confident, and shit, I'm not gonna even
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  Speaker 1: talk about this bullsh right now. I'm gonna cut all
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  Speaker 1: this out and we'll skip righthead. So, Stu, he's in
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  Speaker 1: the sick facility. They're testing him and for whatever reason,
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  Speaker 1: he ain't getting sick. Sue ain't sick. So they're like, Stu,
• 9:21
  Speaker 1: what's going on, Bud? How are you not sick? All
• 9:23
  Speaker 1: your friends are fucking dying. There's some really great scenes
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  Speaker 1: where like you just see the doctors taking notes as
• 9:28
  Speaker 1: his friends are dying, and it just kind of shows
• 9:31
  Speaker 1: how like cold and cut and dry this whole situation is,
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  Speaker 1: like they realize that shit is getting out of hand
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  Speaker 1: incredibly fast, and like there's no time for anything besides
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  Speaker 1: just what's going to stop this? And why is this
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  Speaker 1: affecting everyone in such a lethal way, and they kind
• 9:49
  Speaker 1: of mentioned how like the disease is going to mutate
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  Speaker 1: and people are going to think that they're getting better
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  Speaker 1: and then they'll basically take a turn for the worse
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  Speaker 1: and die pretty quickly after that. So it's very scary,
• 10:01
  Speaker 1: very intense plague. It's also known as Captain trips, is
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  Speaker 1: what they call the plague. I guess I should have
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  Speaker 1: mentioned that in the synops that I did earlier. Synopsis,
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  Speaker 1: So where do we go from there? So for sticking
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  Speaker 1: with Stu, basically he stays at this facility until all
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  Speaker 1: the doctors are dead. He doesn't realize this though, He's
• 10:21
  Speaker 1: just kind of like hanging out in this room the
• 10:23
  Speaker 1: whole time. There's a great moment where the doctors come
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  Speaker 1: in to try to do more tests on stew but
• 10:28
  Speaker 1: he won't let him, and they're kind of like, come on,
• 10:31
  Speaker 1: stuw we need your blood and stuff like that. We
• 10:33
  Speaker 1: go look at your blood, but he threatens him by
• 10:35
  Speaker 1: like grabbing the edge of their suit and he's like,
• 10:38
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna rip your fucking suit open and coughing your
• 10:40
  Speaker 1: face and shit if you if you take any more
• 10:42
  Speaker 1: of my blood and they're like, oh no, you know,
• 10:45
  Speaker 1: let us out of here, and stuff like that. It
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: gets to the point where there's the there's only the
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: main doctor left alive. He goes in there with a
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  Speaker 1: gun and he's gonna just kill Stu because he's like,
• 10:54
  Speaker 1: I don't honestly know why he's gonna kill him. I
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  Speaker 1: guess he's just like he's all sick and shit now too,
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  Speaker 1: and he's the can if I'm gonna die, you're gonna
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: die too, I guess, Bud. I don't like that you're
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: not sick. We can't figure out why you're not sick.
• 11:06
  Speaker 1: They even like, I can't remember if they tell him
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: in the miniseries, but in the book, I remember they
• 11:10
  Speaker 1: tell him that they inject him with Captain trips, like
• 11:13
  Speaker 1: straight up into his bloodstream and he still doesn't get sick.
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: So it's just an immunity that really is only explained
• 11:20
  Speaker 1: by the hand of God, which is something else that
• 11:22
  Speaker 1: we'll get into much later on, I'm sure in part
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: three and four, or definitely in part four. But the
• 11:28
  Speaker 1: hand of God has a lot to do with this
• 11:29
  Speaker 1: and God in general and the Bible and religion, Like
• 11:32
  Speaker 1: I said, very religious story. So Stu fucks this guy up.
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: He pulls the GAT on him, but Stu's too quick
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: and he fucking he flicks the TV on behind the
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: guy to like distract him, and then he beats the
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  Speaker 1: shit out of him and takes the gun from him,
• 11:45
  Speaker 1: leaves and shit like that, and Stu shoots him because
• 11:48
  Speaker 1: the guy comes back and attacks him again. And as
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  Speaker 1: he's leaving the facility, this is one of the scenes
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: that always stuck with me as a kid, because he's
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: running through this hospital. At this point, he doesn't realize
• 11:57
  Speaker 1: how bad things have gotten. I mean, he probably has
• 11:59
  Speaker 1: an idea if they're keeping him basically prisoner in this
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: medical facility. But he's running through the halls and there's
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: literally people just fucking dead as hell everywhere, just like
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: leaning up against the walls with their tongues hanging out
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  Speaker 1: and shit and fucking blood's coming out of their eyes
• 12:12
  Speaker 1: and ears and stuff like that. It's a nightmare scene,
• 12:14
  Speaker 1: and so that always stuck with me. The part when
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: he's running down the stairs, this guy just jumps up
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: and he's like, Hey, come down here and eat chicken
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: with me, beautiful, and Stull, like fucking Sparta kicks his ass.
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  Speaker 1: Off the stairs or something that always stuck out with me,
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: just because it was such a weird scene. And the
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  Speaker 1: guy's like bleeding out of his eyes while he's saying it,
• 12:32
  Speaker 1: and he's got like crust all over his mouth, and
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: it's just like, Yeah, you don't want that guy touching
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: you for sure, like whether he's sick or not. Just
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: kick that fucking guy down the stairs. And I think
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: that more or less sums up Stew's part for episode one.
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  Speaker 1: He might have a Mother Abigail dream in there somewhere,
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  Speaker 1: I believe, or maybe even like a dark Man dream.
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: I feel like they're usually like a combination of Mother
• 12:54
  Speaker 1: Abigail and dark Man dreams happening at the same time.
• 12:57
  Speaker 1: But we'll get into that. There's plenty of that shit
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: to talk about, trust me. And then we get Molly
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: Ringwald as Frannie Goldsmith's, who is another one of the
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: big dog main characters we got here, and there's a
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  Speaker 1: handful of them, two handfuls of them, to be exact,
• 13:12
  Speaker 1: damn it. So Molly Ringwald, she's hanging out with her
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  Speaker 1: old ass dad. This is right as the plague's getting bad,
• 13:18
  Speaker 1: right as Captain Trips is really busting that on Everybody,
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: Harold Lotter comes up, and Harold Lotter is another main guy.
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: I don't think I said it anymore. Harold Lotter comes up,
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  Speaker 1: Harold Lotter is just like, hey, Franny, I want to
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  Speaker 1: take it a fucking date. I want to take you
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  Speaker 1: to mar Bergman Movie Fest. And she's like, nah, no, thanks,
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  Speaker 1: you a little fucking dork. I'm gonna go see Arim.
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  Speaker 1: And in the book, I think Harold's supposed to be sixteen.
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: He seems pretty young here, although I think he's probably
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: a little older than sixteen. But he's kind of like
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: a he's a very egotistical writer, and he's just kind
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: of like, oh yeah, Harold Lotter's an incel, like to
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: a t is the best way to describe him. Just
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: very stereotypical. Only the big difference in the book and
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: movie that I've seen so far in his character is
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: that in the book he starts out as like a
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: big fucking fat guy or a big fat kid, I guess,
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: and he's just like, you know, hates everybody and wishes
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: everybody was dead and stuff like that. Not really, I guess.
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: I guess in the book he kind of does like
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: he's he gets bullied a lot, but then after the
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: play hits and everybody dies, he shows he says out
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: loud that he wishes they weren't actually gone. So I
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: thought that was interesting, really great development there in Harold's
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: character in the book, at least anyway, Molly Ringwald and
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: her dad. Her dad is the guy from Scrubs, doctor
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: Kelso I believe his name is. He's like the old
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  Speaker 1: doctor that's in charge of everything, not the mean doctor
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  Speaker 1: and from Scrubs, but he's the guy that always like
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: doesn't give a fuck, and he's really funny in Scrubs,
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  Speaker 1: and he's really good in this too, actually, But quickly
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  Speaker 1: we see that he's getting sick. Franny is taking care
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  Speaker 1: of him, but he dies and she has to like
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: stitch him up in a sheet and drag him down
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  Speaker 1: the stairs and she buries him in the garden and
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: basically as she's doing it, Harold comes over and it's like, Yo,
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: my parents are dead too, Bud, do you want to
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: hang out and be best friends and stuff like that?
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: And she's like, I guess, so, Harold, I guess we can.
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: But also he's kind of like, also, I like to
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: be your boyfriend and shit, and she's kind of like no.
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: She just says like, we'll always be friends, Harold friends, motherfucker,
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: not boyfriends and girlfriends, motherfucker. And he's kind of like, fuck,
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: even in the Apocalypse, I can't get any fucking pussy
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: and I'll leave it. I'll put a pen in it
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: there for Harold. And then we cut over to Nick Andros.
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: He's walking through this town I can't remember. It's like
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: Alabama or some shit, and he gets beat up by
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: these guys locals. They beat the shit out of them,
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: and it's one of the worst fight scenes I've ever
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: seen in my life. Before we get into it, though,
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: got to point out they chose Rob Lowe to play
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: Nick Andros, which Nick Andrews is deaf and dumb. He
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: can't hear, he can't talk, and we got Rob low
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: playing him, and right away I was kind of like,
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: what the fuck it? Just why Rob low It's one
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: of the oddest casting choices, I will say. In the
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: mini series. As this goes on, it didn't bother me
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: as much, like I feel like he does a better
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: job than I expected as the story goes on. But
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: the introduction to Nick in the mini series was not
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: great for me, And maybe it's the fight scene that
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: we see, but it kind of sucked because we see
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: Rob Low, he's walking around these guys. They come to
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: beat them up, and it's just like one of those
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: really slow fight scenes where the guys are throwing punches,
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: like where they're really rearing their handback and they're like,
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: here comes your deaf motherfucker. And then he like ducks
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: it and kicks them in the nuts. But he kicks
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: them in the nuts like he jumps both of his
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: feet off the ground when he does the kick, like
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: a little kid would, and it's like, have you ever
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: fucking kicked the ball before in your life? Dude? Yeah,
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: I'm sure you know how to kick somebody in the
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: nuts better than that. But you know, it's very very movie.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: It feels like they could have done a few more
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: takes or maybe got like some stunt doubles in there
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: or something some stuntman to do this shit, because it
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: just looks like goofy as hell. But the casting with
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: Rob Low, My big problem with it is just like
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: in the book, you would never guess they would get
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: Robblo to play this guy, like you would think it
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: would be somebody that's a little less traditionally handsome, like
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: Rob Woll is almost like distracting because of the way
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: he looks, and it's like, I don't think that's that
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: doesn't sound like Nick Andros at all if you're reading
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: the book and assuming like who would play this guy?
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: Gary Sonisee is great. Molly Ringwald's doable as far as
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: Frannie goes. Like some of Molly Ringwald's performance, like early
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: on too, was a little bit tough to get into,
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: And I don't know if it's always her. Sometimes I
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: feel like it's her performance, like they could have maybe
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: done a few more takes with her. But sometimes I
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: think it's like the way she's written in the mini series,
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: because Frannie is another character that's like, really, you get
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: this whole backstory with her where she finds out she's
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: pregnant right away with her boyfriend Jesse, and she basically
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: tells him like I'm going to have this baby with
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: or without you, Bud, and he's kind of like, oh shit,
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: I don't really want to have a baby. So she's
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: just like fine him doing the shit by myself. See
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: you later, Jesse, see a never fuck face, and then
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: she never sees him again because he probably dies in
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: the plague. But she kind of like takes all that
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: in strides. Like the character Frannie's, she shows to be
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: a really strong character right away. The Frannie we get
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: in the miniseries is a little goof here, Like I
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: feel like she has goofy moments in the book too,
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: but they're rounded out nicely with those other qualities, whereas
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: in the mini series it's mostly just like, my fucking
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: butt's got cows is on it, I'll shoot and stuff
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: like that, and it's kind of like, Okay, that all
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: we're gonna get with her. Other than there are some
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: really touching moments with her. When her dad dies, there's
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: a moment where she sings amazing Grace while she's like
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: sewing up his funeral shroud, and it's a pretty touching moment, honestly.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: So back to Nick Andrews. He gets beat up by
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: these guys. A doctor almost runs his head over and
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: they bring him to the prison where they're going to,
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: you know, just find out what the fuck happened to him.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: So they take him to the sheriff. He explains who
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: beat him up. The sheriff realizes, look, it's my brother.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: In law that beat his ass, so they go and
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: arrest him. Nick kind of helps the sheriff out. While
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: this is going on, the sickness is spreading, and then
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: everybody gets sick and dies. Basically all the prisoners get sick.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: The doctor is still there and he's like, Hey, the
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: fucking sheriff died. I'm going to go to my cabin
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: and the mountains or some shit. Do you want to
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: come with me? And he's kind of like, well, I
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: got to take care of these prisoners, you know. And
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: they're like, oh, I see you later, Nick, motherfucker. It's
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: a stupid idea, but here you go. And so Nick
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: lets the guys out of prison, the ones that aren't.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: There's one guy that's stuck in prison because he's basically
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: dead already, but he lets the other two guys out
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: and they leave. And as Nick's leaving, he brings a
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: gun with him and stuff like that. He grabs a
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: sheriff gun. He sees that the doc has been killed,
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: and I thought the doc just got sick and died,
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: but he's like dead in his car, and we kind
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: of find out that one of the bullies that beat
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: up Nick, the main one I think his name is
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Ray or something like that. He I think he kills
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: that he killed the doctor actually, which is pretty neat.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: But then he attacks Nick. Nick shoots him and kills
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: him dead. And so from then on Nick starts to
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: head towards Nebraska. And the reason he's heading towards Nebraska
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: is because when the bullies whooped his ass and knocked
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: him out, he had his first little vision of Mother Abigail,
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Like as he gets chaot and he's in Nebraska, he
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: sees her and she's just like, hey, Nick, Hey, Nick,
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: why don't you come on down Nebraska? Anyway? Nick comes
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: on down to Nebraska is what he decides he's gonna
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: do and visit Mother Abigail. He sees her in the dream.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: The dream's hilarious because so Nick's step and dumb. Obviously,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: as soon as he pops up in the dream, it's
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: just rob low and he's just like I can talk
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: and I can hear. It's like, all right, do we
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: need that? It almost felt like he was gonna be
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: like and I can see some really fucking lame shit
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: like that. If the Stand was going to be a musical,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: that's where that part would kick off. It would just
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: be Rob Low breaking into a musical number in this
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: fake ass cornfield in Nebraska. So that's where we'll, uh,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: we'll move on from Nick. Who the fuck is next? Okay?
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: So now we're up in here with Larry Underwood. We
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: got Larry Underwood, the rock star, the musician. Baby, can
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: you dig your man? He's into the picture. And so
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Larry is in a bit of trouble. He got in
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: some trouble doing drugs, spending too much money, being a
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: damn rock star, doing the nickel back thing, and he decides,
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: I better go live with my mom for a while
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: until all this cools off and I can make some
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: more damn money. So Larry, he's greeted with his mother
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: out on the East Coast, I believe in New York.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of scenes that are shot on location here,
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: and it looks great, It looks fantastic. I love. That's
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: one thing that I really loved about this mini series
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: is that a lot of pretty much everything except for
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: mother Abigail's dream sequences are shot on location. And I
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: think some of those whenever she's in RL, which we'll
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: get too soon enough, are shot in Nebraska, which I
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: thought was really cool. So anyway, Larry, he goes and
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: he meets his mom, and you can tell right away
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: that his mom kind of knows that he's a bit
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: of a shyste he's a bit of a scumbag. And
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: we get a lot more of that in the book.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: You find out what happens when Larry's blowing up in
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: the music scene, and how he kind of mistreats people,
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: and you even get some backstory on how he like
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: kind of fucked over one of his friends in a
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: really just kind of shitty way where he like bitched
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: the friend out for like twenty bucks that he borrowed
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: from him, and he like was really hounding him about it,
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: you know, and the guy's like, hey, man, I fucking
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: lend you money all the time when you don't have
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: money for the movies or when we got to eat
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: and all this other shit, and now you need your
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: twenty bucks back, like it's into the fucking world or something. Well,
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: fuck you, motherfucker. We're not friends anymore, Larry. He's son
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: of a bitch. But that's in the book, and we're
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: talking about the miniseries, so you kind of gloss over
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: a lot of that stuff and That's kind of how
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: it is with several other characters where you're just kind
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: of like landing in this situation where it's like it's
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: into the world, this is what's going on. You kind
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: of get the gist of their who they are, and
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: you know who is their daddy and what do they
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: do kind of thing. So anyway, Larry goes. He starts
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: living with his mom again. He's going all over town
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: thinking he's some sort of big shit, hot star fucking rocker,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: and he's over at the bar he runs into the
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: rat Man for just a brief interaction. The rat Man's
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: a side character that we'll get into that I believe
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: pops up later in the story as well. I know
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: in the book he does. I can't remember if he's
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: in the miniseries later on, but I'm assuming he probably has.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Why else what they have him here, Larry bumps into him,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: and the rat Man forgives him this time a little
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: menacing I will say the rat Man's a little bit
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: of a menacing character. He looks like he would commit
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: a crime or two. But Larry he calls back in California.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: He calls his girlfriend or whatever over there, and she's
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: like Hey, man, shit's popping off over here. I'm working
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: at the damn casino or something right now. There's not
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: a single guy inside. There's not a single living soul
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: in sight, which is super unusual. Captain Trips is fucking
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: bumping down here, and Larry's like, oh shit, that doesn't
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: sound very good. Anyway. I'm gonna take you out to
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: a hot breakfast when I get back there, and we're
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: gonna party hard. We're gonna party our nuts off. We're
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: gonna party till our cocks and balls fall off when
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: I get back to California as well, Larry's thinking, and
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: this is one of the moments. I feel like there's
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: some moments with some of Larry's line delivery much like
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: many of the other characters, all maybe except Stu. Except
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: for Gary Sonise. I feel like he's kind of kind
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: of hits a flawless victory as far as the line
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: deliveries go. But it's almost like everybody has a couple
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: like Mortal Kombat annihilation moments in this mini series and
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: this six hour long movie that we're going through here,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: which you know, I don't mind it too much. It
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: is what it is. I can take a drip of
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: Mortal Kombat annihilation in my movie, a little drip of
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: some MKA acting in my movie. The problem with MKA
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: is that the whole movie as one hundred percent moral
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: combat annihilation. But if you got a movie like this,
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: where it's mostly good and it's got some little dog
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: shit scenes or some like shitty line deliveries, you just
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: got to kind of roll with him, you know, And
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: that's that happens a few times in this. Overall, though
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: I like the portrayal of Larry in this, there was
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: a couple of moments, like with some of the line
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: deliveries that I was unsure about, like is this gonna
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: work in the book? I mean, Larry's one of the
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: best characters in my opinion, Like he definitely hits the
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: top five, maybe even the top three, of all the
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: characters in the book. So I was curious. It's another
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: thing where I was just like, how are they gonna
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: pull this off? I think he does an okay job.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: I think he like so far from what I've seen,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: I think he does a pretty good job. There's also
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: I think this is where we get a really great
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: flu Buddy commercial. And this is something where like as
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: the movie was going on, like, I'm just gonna go
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: ahead and show you a little behind the scenes here.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: So I've got the can you see that all right?
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: I've got the stand ninety four Stephen King series on
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: the VHS tape that my mom filmed off of cable
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: or whatever when I was a kid. So it's got
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: all the og commercials and everything. Pretty fantastic. But there's
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: a flu Buddy commercial which is basically just like, you know,
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: everyone's getting sick, get your fucking flu buddy in and stuff.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: As this commercial kicks in, though it is, it feels
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: like a real commercial, like the way it's filmed and
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: everything in the way it's acted, it looks just like
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: a real commercial, And it threw me off for a
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: second where I was thinking, like, holy shit, is this
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: one of the commercials like in real life from that time.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: It's fantastic. It's really well done. Just one of the
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: little touches in this movie that I really enjoyed. I
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: think Mick Garris did a great job with this. Mick
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: Garris also did Critters Too, also wrote the movie Hocus Pocus.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: I'm a huge fan of Make Garris. I think he's
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: an underrated dude for sure. Underrated director just off critters
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: to alone. I mean, that's an all timer for me,
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: very pivotal movie when I was growing up. Let's see.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: So then we see Larry. He's living with his mom.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: His mom dies a similar fate to uh, I would
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: say most people in this movie. She just gets really sick.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: The way they make those sick people look is extremely effective.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: Like their skin looks all sore, like it looks like
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: it's covered in like rashes, and it's very like slimy looking.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: They just look like they've been sweating their asses off,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: you know, and just very drawn out. The effects in
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: this are actually really really good. I would say. I
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: think that's why some of those hospitals scenes really stuck
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: with me when I was a kid, because it just
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: the effects are very disturbing. They're very unsettling. And that's
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: kind of what happens with Larry's mom. She's fucking doing
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: that thing where she'll be like laying flat in bed,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: just like Verry, Larry tell your dad, you know, she's
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: like hallucinating about his dad and stuff like that, still
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: being alive, like go get your dad and stuff, and
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: then she'll just sit up and be like, oh, fuck,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: you know, I'm dying. And then she's dead, and so
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: his mom dies too, and he's kind of like, fuck,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: what the hell do I do now? One thing? And uh.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: There are some other scenes with Larry in the book
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: where he like kind of like hooks up with another
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: lady or something and she, you know, she's kind of
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: like wanting to make it serious and he's just like, no,
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: I'm out of here, and she throws a bunch of
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: shit at him. We don't need to talk about the book.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: Why do I keep doing that. We'll get We'll do
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: a whole episode on the book once we're done with this.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: We're doing the miniseries. I gotta stay focused. Fuck, I
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: gotta focus up on this shit lock in miniseries. Time
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: forget about the book right now? Just a book so good,
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: damn it. So anyway, Larry's mom dies, he's just like
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: he's having dreams about mother Abigail too, and he's just like, damn, bitch,
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: I gotta get to Nebraska and I gotta to meet
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: this fucking lady. He's probably wanted to do some harmonized
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: guitar looks with her, like Avenge sevenfold and go back
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: to back with her ass on the front porch. You
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, because she's shredding too all the time.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: Any in any of her dreams, she's playing like Jesus
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: loves the little children, Jesus is my friend, and all
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: this stuff. Really get great stuff with Mother Abigail. And
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: since we're talking about her so much, might as well
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: just move right into some Mother Abigail. So we're, like
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: I said, we kind of see her in these dream sequences.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: We see her in Nick's dream sequence, we see her,
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: and I think Larry's and Stew's as well. You know,
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: I can't remember if there's any more other than that,
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: but but we're seeing a lot of her. But then
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: we finally meet her in real life, which is great,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: and the way they do it, I think is just
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: a big, you know, a salute to Stephen King, because
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: the first thing she's talking about is her fucking big
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: ass shits that she's been taken. She walks right out
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: of the outhouse and she says, Lord oh, then prunes,
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: thanks for the for the valuable BM that I just made,
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: And it's like, what else? What else do you expect
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: from a Stephen King story than some stinky BM talk
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: and this is the first time we're seeing like the
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: human version of Mother Abigail because everything else, these visions
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: and dreams that everyone's having, it's like she knows that
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: all these people are being drawn to her, and she
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: kind of knows that God is like speaking through her.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: But at the same time, I don't think she like
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: really under stands how much this is happening or how
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: what's happened. Like, I don't think she's aware of the
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: people talking to her and the dreams, you know what
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: I mean, She's probably dreaming of them too, and maybe
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: that's how she knows.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: Me.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: It doesn't really go into it in great detail, but
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: I just kind of assume that, like maybe Mother Abigail's
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: having dreams about the people that are going to visit
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: her as well as the dark Man, because when we
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: see her, she sits down on the porch and this
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: is in real life, and she's like jamming out on
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: the guitar, playing you know, Jesus is my friend. And
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: then she sees the dark Man, which is a you know,
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: we'll get into the dark Man obviously. She sees the
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: dark Man Randall Flag and he's just kind of staring
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: at her in the corn and his face is all
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: shrouded and black, you know, like in shadows, and she's like,
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: holy fuck, you know, like what the fuck are you
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: doing here, bitch? And she's kind of you know, and
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: then he's just like, your blood is in my hands.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: And he starts squeezing his fucking hands really tight, and
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: blood starts coming out of his hands, and she just
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: keeps like strumming even harder. She's like, Jesus is my friend,
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: and shit, and blood just starts shooting out of her
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: hands all over the guitar, and she looks down and
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: she's like fuck. She's like, what are you doing to me, bud?
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: Get out of my cornfield, you know. And then he disappears,
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: the blood disappears, and she's like, shit, this is getting
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: fucking serious. Like we're really getting into some damn devil
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: shit up in this bitch, Like the world's coming to
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: an end. These people are coming here on some sort
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: of like you know, religious war mission that we're going on,
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: and the devil's in the damn cornfield? So what are
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: we gonna do about it? Anyway, That's pretty much all
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say about Mother Abigail for the for episode
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: number one. So now let's get into some of the
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: other characters. I would I kind of put these under
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: bad guys, and as far as you can tell in
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: the mini series, they're bad guys, I will say once again,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: in the books, they're much more layered characters. But the
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: main bad guy, Randall flag will just go ahead and
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: get into him. He's played by Jamie Sheridan. Honestly, in
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: episode one, I will say that like he's more of
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: like a almost a background thing, like a background figure
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: where it's like I love that they don't really like
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: show him his face and clear view too much. For
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: the most part, you don't really see his face. It's
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: always like kind of shadowed. It's really effective, and that
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: was something that kind of surprised me because I kind
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: of remembered what this guy looked like from when I
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: was a kid and the first time I saw it.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: But the way they show Randall Flagg at the beginning,
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: I think is really cool and you know that he's evil.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: Now there's several scenes where he's got like glowing red
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: eyes and shit, and it's just kind of like this
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: motherfucker is about to do some Devil shit almost like
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: he could have been. If Danzig was taller, they could
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: have put Danzig in there to play Randall Flag. I
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: think that would have been pretty cool. Actually, they just
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: would have had to put his ass on stilts, because
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: if he's not taller than anyone else around him, including
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: maybe Mother Abigail, I don't know if I would have
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: been that, you know, I guess he's got magic and shit,
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: but still, it's just one of those things, you know,
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: like if he's that much shorter than everybody's kind of like,
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: who's his fucking pip squeak? I think the Devil would
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: have hired somebody a little taller. Anyway, we'll move right
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: on to Lloyd, so uh, because I think if you're
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: gonna talk about Randall Flag, you kind of got to
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: talk about Lloyd as far as episode one goes, So
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: we meet Lloyd Lloyd Henried I think is his last name.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: This guy's played by Miguel fr Furr, and I recognize
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: this guy as one of the FBI agents from Twin Peaks.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: He's the guy that he comes into town and he's like,
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: you know, very by the book, and fucking Harry gets
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: all pissed. Off at him and punches him and stuff
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: like that, that's this guy. And I was like, okay, yeah,
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: I recognize this guy from all sorts of shit very good,
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: very good as Lloyd. So that Lloyd and Poke they're
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: basically just these two criminals. And we see them on
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: this like criminal road trip, and I think this is
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: before Captain Trips has really like wiped everybody out, because
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: they just like roll up to this gas station and
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: start fucking blasting and they're like, you know, everybody, give
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: us your money or whatever, but like Lloyd just machine
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: guns this motherfucker to death like instantly, and then they
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: get into the shootout. There's already like a cop there.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: It just happens to be there, and the cop fucking
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: shoots Poked to death. Lloyd takes off out of there,
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: but the cops they catch his ass right away and
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: they slam him into the ground. As they're arresting him,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: he looks up and he sees Randall Flagg sitting on
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: a telephone pole and he's kind of like, what the fuck,
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: there's a guy up there, But then he turns into
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: a crow and the cops are like, shut up, bitch,
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: you're going to jail and shit. So Lloyd gets thrown
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: in jail, and it's one of the interesting character arcs.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: Is just like Lloyd in general, some of the more
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: interesting character arcs in the story overall, I will say,
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: and I'm basing that off the book, Like I said,
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: God damn it, the bucks the book, goddamn can't stop
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: fucking talking about the book. Captain Tripps hasn't blown up
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: to the full extent that it has in the rest
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: of these characters stories. When we meet Lloyd, so he
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: gets thrown into prison, and when he's in prison, everybody
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: dies and he's immune, so he's just stuck in prison
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: with nobody to let his ass out. So he's just like,
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: you know, help me and shit, and he ends up
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: eating rats. In the book, he eats like his cellmates
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: are not his cellmate, but the guy next to him
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: he can like reach his arm or his leg or something,
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: so he eats that guy's leg and shit. And then
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: Randall Flag comes rolling up to him and he's just like, well, well,
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: well what do we have here? You know? And I
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: thought this whole interaction was great between Randall Flagg and
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: Lloyd because obviously Lloyd is confused as fuck about what's
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: going on. He hasn't seen a guard, another prisoner, he
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: hasn't heard anybody for who knows how long at this point,
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: long enough to where he's eating raw rats. So this
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: guy comes rolling up in a jean jacket and boots
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: and tight ass jean pants and stuff, and he's just like,
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: what's going on, Partner says. He says, looks like you're
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: in some deep kaka, which I love that line. I
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: thought that was fantastic, you know, cutting around saying the
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: big swear bombs for the made for TV type of shit,
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: which I always enjoy that, and he kind of like
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: edited for TV stuff. It's fantastic. Cracks me up. How
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: they're just like, well, we can't say shit, but he
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: might say kaka in the book. Actually, now I think
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: about I think that's like a Stephen King thing, Coca
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: excuse me. I think the first time I heard the
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: word kaka was by the Rock in WWF. I think
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: he used to say that. Sometimes. It's kind of like
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: when you find out that dookie means shit and you're
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: like a green Day you You guys are so clever
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: snucking a little cussword there on your CD. So anyway, basically,
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: Randall Flag he does this thing where he pulls out
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: a rock, like a black rock, and he puts it
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: on the top of his hand, like right here, and
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: then his hand bends backward all the way and folds
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: it up like he's doing this, but he's doing it
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: like this, and that was a really cool effect too. Actually,
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: I didn't remember that. I wasn't expecting it, and I
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: was kind of like, whoa fuck. Yeah, they fucking made
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: that shit look cool as hell. So he's like, hey, Bud,
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: you're gonna be higher high up in my ranks as
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: long as you come with me and you're loyal, and
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: Lloyd's like, say less, Bud, I don't want to eat
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: any more fucking rats. I don't want to do any
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: of this bullshit. I've been stuck in prison with no
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: food or anything for who knows how long now, just
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: drinking the fucking toilet water, probably an eating dead rash shit.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: So Randall Flagg lets him out. I can't remember if
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: there's any other cool shit with that. I just thought
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: that whole interaction was cool, and it kind of gives
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: you an idea of like Randall Flag almost comes off
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: as very sinister, but also he's just kind of joking
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: around and fucking around with Lloyd the whole time. So
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: I like that. I thought Jamie Sheridan did a really
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: good job as Randall Flag. And so the other one,
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: the trash can Man that I mentioned, we run into
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: him and he's kind of receiving like messages in his
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: head from Randall Flag basically, just kind of like telling
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: him like, hey, motherfucker, come to Las Vegas and you're
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: you're also going to be higher up in my ranks
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: and stuff like that. But when we first run into
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: trash Camman, he's fucking in Indiana or something, and he
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: runs into this big old, uh, I don't know, like
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: a big fuel thing and he blows it up basically,
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: and you just kind of like get a summary of
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: the trash canman. Basically, he's this guy who was sent
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: to Tara Hote Correctional Facility or something like that mental
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: hospital or some shit where he was like really badly
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: abused and I think electro shock therapy his ass and
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: stuff like that, and so now he just likes blowing
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: shit up. He likes fire and he likes blowing it up.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: I think he always kind of liked that, but now
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: it's like it's like they took that knob and they
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: just fucking cranked it all the way up. So he
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: blows this like refinery up or something like that by
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: shoving a fucking bomb into it and runs away. And
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: after that he just walks from wherever the fuck he is.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: I can't remember if it's Indiana or not, but it's
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: it's something like that. He walks all the way from
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: there to Las Vegas so he can go join Randall
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: Flagg's army community. I guess, not really an army yet
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: or anything. I don't know if it ever becomes an army,
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: but it is different, and I would say that's basically
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: that's gonna kind of sum up part one, you know.
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: So we've introduced all the characters, we kind of get
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: a look at their backstory and how they're all coming
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: to be on this journey to the West. Let's see
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: some other on mentions. I talked about Joe Bob Briggs already,
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: but there's also Kareem Abdul Jabbar, the big ass basketball player.
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: I love seeing him in movies, him branching out. I
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: think he was in Enter the Dragon as well. So
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: it's always fun seeing him pop up. He is the
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: monster shouterer in New York. So he runs into Larry
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: in New York and he's basically just like the Devil's coming,
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: and he like gets in Larry's face and he's like,
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: the Devil's coming, bitch, Larry, and Larry's kind of like,
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: what the fuck, how do you know my name? And shit?
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: And when we first see Randall Flag, Randall Flag makes
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: him have a heart attack for some reason. He's just like, man,
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: fuck that guy. Wish he would shut the fuck up.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: So he like does a thing to his nipples. He's like,
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: I really like tweaks him. And that makes Kareem have
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: a heart attack and die. Also Kathy Bates, so when
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: we're with Franny, Franny and her dad are listening to
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: the radio and we hear, you know, all these news
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: reports about people basically trying to get the word out
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: that like this Captain Trip, shit's not good. It's real
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: bad and everyone dying. You need to stay inside, you
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: need to you know, take care of yourself and don't
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: trust the government right now because they're being fucking they're
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: killing people and stuff like that. And so she's reporting
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: on that shit and basically the military bust in. It's
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: Kathy Bates is Ray Flowers, a radio announcer, and at
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: this point, you know they've seen some headlines about captain
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: trips Frannie and her dad have, but they're kind of like,
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: what the fuck's going on? And Frannie's really like in
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: denial about it. She's like, this isn't real, is it?
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: And the Dad's like, I think it is. And then
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: they just start fucking blasting Ray Flowers with machine guns,
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: and that really like hits them as like, this shit's
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: fucking serious. Show. So I think that covers all the
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: bases for part one. A lot of my thoughts and
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: feelings will run go ahead and just run down part two.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: In part two, we start seeing more of these characters' dreams,
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: more of their journey. They start meeting up with some
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: other characters. Like I said earlier, Lloyd joins Flag. That's
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: a big one. Stu, he runs into Glenn Bateman. So
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: Glenn Bateman's this old guy, and this is a really
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: interesting choice for how they have Stu and Glenn meet
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: each other. So he just basically walks up behind Glenn
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: and he has a fucking assault rifle, and Glenn's outside
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: of his house that he's at and he's painting his
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: picture with his dog. I think it's Kojak. I have
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: to look that up to be sure, but he's basically
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: just like rolls up on him with a rifle and
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: Glenn's just kind of like, hey, what's going on there, Bud?
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: And Stu's like not much. How you doing an old guy?
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: Old timer? Because Glenn's like eighty years old and shit
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: in this I think he's more like fifty in the book.
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: And then they're just kind of like, sweet, let's hang out.
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: Let's be fucking buds, and they do that. They just
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: kind of hang out at Glenn's house. Glenn's like, uh,
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: you know, I've been having dreams about the old Black
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: Lady too, and Stu's like, damn, are you serious? And
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: he's like and also the fucking evil guy. And Stu's like,
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: holy shit, brother, this is crazy. And so they're like,
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: we need to team up and you need to come
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: with me, and then Glenn's like, fuck yeah, let's do it.
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: But right before they leave, they're getting ready to go
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: on this little trip out to Boulder, Colorado, Harold and
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: Frannie just drive up on motorcycles, and so we haven't
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: seen anything from Harold and Frannie really other than their one.
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: They're wanting to go to the disease control center that
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: Stu was at when they were fucking doing all the
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: tests on the place that Stu escaped from. So they're
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: headed out west too, and they just happened to drive
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: up on Stu and Glen, which is kind of an
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: odd choice because it just is it just feels like, okay,
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: So they just drove by this guy's house. I guess, like,
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: you know, it must be a pretty inviting house if
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: Stu just walked up there from where the fuck he's
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: coming from. Because Stu's on foot at this point and
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: Franny and Harold are on hogs. They got big hogs.
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: This is where Frannie gets off the hog and she's
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: just like, ooh, my butt's got fucking callouses on it
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: now or something. She's like, I'm always gonna have a
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: callousy ass after this, and it's just kind of like nice,
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: very cool and Harold. Harold went from wearing like a
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: jogger suit that has like comstains all over it to
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: wearing as list chaps with jeans underneath. Him and like
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: a studded leather jacket, which is you know, there's no
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: transition into it. He just decides, well, it's the end
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: of the world. I might as well try to look
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: as fucking cool as possible. I'm just gonna go full
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: mad Max Thunderdome on this shit. He's probably got a
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: metal cock piece underneath those leather pants or whatever that
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: he's wearing. He's probably probably rated the cock pump factory,
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: and he's just been juicing up his hog for Franny.
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: He's trying to fuck Franny. Everyone knows that, right, We
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: learned about that in part one. So anyway, they team
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: up and Harold is suspicious of stew. He doesn't think
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: that Glenn is going to steal Franny from him because
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: Glenn's eighty years old, although he should be worried about
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: Glenn too, because as fucking goofball shit as Harold is,
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: Glenn would probably steal fran from him as well. I
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: don't think he has much of a chance, but he
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: knows right away. He's like, here's this, here's fucking young
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: Gary Sonise up in here. He's gonna steal fucking Franny
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: from my ass. I have no chance and so he's
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: kind of like, I don't know if we should go
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: with him, and we probably shouldn't trust these guys, especially
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: this one. And he like points at Stu, and Stu's
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: kind of like he catches it right away. He pulls
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: him to the side. He's like, listen, Bud, I'm not
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: trying to cut in or anything like that. And Harold's
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: kind of like, relly, I thought you would, and you know,
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: I thought you'd fucking give me a wedgie and stuff
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: my head in the toilet, swirling my ass and take
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: my batch. But Stu's like, trust me, brother, I'm not
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: gonna do that. It's just hilarious because it's exactly what
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: he does. But it is like it's more natural, you know,
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: it's not like Franny has to you know. Harold thinks
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: that like Franny has to be with him for basically
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: just because it's the end of the world and their
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: friends or you know, they knew each other before, and
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: so he's just kind of like she's mine, you know.
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: And it's even it's even worse than the book as
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: far as that stuff goes. This whole interaction where they
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: first meet is even more intense. But anyway, Harold believes them.
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: Stu hands out beers, Franny doesn't take a beer, and
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: I think this is like foreshadow going into something that
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: we learned about later that we know instantly in the book,
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: and that is that Franny is pregnant. And I think
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: this is a little more confusing in the miniseries from
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: what I remember, because when I was reading the book,
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: I do remember thinking like, Okay, yeah, I remember thinking
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: that she was pregnant with Stu's baby. But in the book,
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: right away when she talks to her old boyfriend Jesse
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: from the beginning part, she's like, I'm pregnant with your
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: baby and shit. And so in the book the whole time,
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: you know she's pregnant and you know that it's with
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: Jesse's baby, but in this one, they haven't talked about
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: it yet. But the fact that she turns down the beer,
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: and I think she turns down like any kind of
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: like prescription medication or something like that as well, I
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: think it's kind of hinting that she is pregnant, but
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: they've not talked about it at all, and she didn't
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: talk about it with her dad either. It's a bigger
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: deal in the book because her mom and Dad are
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: both alive in the book, and she kind of gets
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: into it with both of them about the pregnancy, you know,
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: obviously causes a lot of tension. So they decide, you
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: know what, fuck it, we're teaming up. We're all going
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: to Boulder Cuto together because you know, strength and numbers.
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: We're all pretty cool here, We're all pretty trustworthy, except
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: for Harold because look at his fucking ass. But Harold's like, no,
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: I need to go to the sickness center and Stuve's like,
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: you don't want to go there, bitch. I was just
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: there and they try to fucking kill me and shit,
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: and there's just a bunch of dead guys like rotting
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: everywhere and shit, and and you know, he's kind of like, no,
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: I want to go anyway because I don't trust your
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: ass East Texas. And so they go and Harold walks
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: out of there puke in his little ass off. He's
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: like that was disgusting, and Stuve's like, I told you, motherfucker.
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: Now let's go to Boulder, Colorado and meet up with
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: this fucking old bitch. And they're like, fair enough. One
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: thing that I think I need to touch back on
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: from the first part, and we've jumped around from part
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: one to part two almost as if they're one one
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: episode in itself. But I think that's all right. One
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: thing I didn't really touch on is while Captain Tripps
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: is going on, you're constantly getting these little shots with
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: Ed Harris, who's one of the military guys, basically just
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: talking about how out of control this thing's getting. And
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: it gets to the point where him and his next
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: in command, you know, they're getting really worried, and Ed
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: Harris just blasts himself. He shoots himself, and I think
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: it's just worth noting because I think it's at Harris anyway.
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: I might be wrong about that, but I'm pretty sure
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: it's who it is. It's the guy from the Truman
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: Show who's like calling all the shots on Truman, but
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: he does a great job in it. I just realized
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: that I totally skipped over that whole thing, and it
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: is like a really interesting spot to see, like where
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: the people behind the scenes are at with Captain Trips
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: and how they're kind of dealing with the situation. They're
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: not handling it well, I'll say that, but it does
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: make you wonder because like those characters, the Ray Flowers character,
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: and even like poke in some of those people, like
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: you kind of wonder what those people have ended up
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: being immune because at the time that we see them,
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: they're not showing any symptoms, like before they get killed
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: in all these different ways, before they kill themselves, before
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: they get shot. It does kind of make you wonder,
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: like how many of these people are being gunned down
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: before they've even had a chance to find out if
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: they're immune or not. So just had to touch on that.
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: I don't think it would be right to talk about
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: this story without going into some of the other military
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: stuff that goes on early well in it. Next we'll
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: catch up with Nick Andros or deaf Mute that we
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: got going on here, and this is where Nick Andros
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: meets his partner in crime. And his partner in crime
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: his name is Tom Colin, and this is going to
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: be one of the uh, well, it's gonna be an
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: interesting character to talk about if you know what I'm saying.
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: If you know about Tom Colin, you know the way
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: they describe him in the mini series is that he's
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: slightly retarded. And I'll just go ahead and leave it
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: at that, because I would say, that's probably right. He
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: can't read, he can't write, so when he meets up
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: with Nick, he doesn't know what the fuck Nick's writing
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: down on the paper. He's trying to tell him his
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: name and shit, and he's like, sorry, Bud, I don't
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: know how to fucking read. And you know, it takes
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: him forever to figure out that Nick can't hear or talk,
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: but when he does, he's super excited. And Tom Collin's
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: an amazing character. It's hard to say. I keep I
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: feel like every character I talk about him just like
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: one of my favorite characters in the book, because they're
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: all so well done, they're all so well written, and
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: Tom Collins no exception. I feel like the book wouldn't
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: be the same without him. It's it's the reason why
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: this book is so great, and why this story is
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: so great because of all these characters. So anyway they
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: get together, they quickly kind of talk about what's going
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: on as best as they can. Nick's like, Hey, Tom,
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: I'm riding my bike to Boulder, Colorado because I've been
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: having the dreams. And Tom's like, I've been having the
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: dreams too. The old lady, the scary guy. He's like
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: get on your bike and ride, motherfucker. We're gonna go
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: to Boulder, Colorado. So they start riding. Tom Colin apparently
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: gets into an apple trough of some sort, or he
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: like raids an apple tree or something eats so many
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: apples that he gets diarrhea or I'm assuming he's getting
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: diary because he's just because it's Stephen King. I don't
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: think Stephen King would write like a constipated character unless
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: it was like once the constipation breaks and they're just
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: having the biggest, grossest shit of their lives, or they're
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: like clogging up the toilet or something. You know what
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. It's a Stephen King story, so it's gonna
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: be descriptive shit in there, descriptive shits. Tom Colin has
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: a BM is what this chapter is called. So he's
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: just like, oh my fucking tummy and stuff. And Nick's like,
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: hang here a second, I'm gonna go get you some peptos.
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: So he runs in and this is where we run
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: into what I would consider like maybe another either like
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: somewhat bad character. This is Julie Lowry, and Julie Lowry
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: is played by Shannie Smith, who I think is most
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: notable for being the lady in the Saw movie that
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: has the reverse bear trap on her head. I don't
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: remember if they ever talked about how old Julie Lowry
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: is in the movie, but in the books she's sixteen also,
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: So like Nick meets her, he's like, hey, I got
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: a friend out there. I'm you know, I'm nice and
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: stuff deaf and I can't talk and shit like that,
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: and she's like, oh cool, and she's she does a
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: fantastic job in this uh. In this movie, Shannie Smith
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: does a great job as Julie Lowry. It made me
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: like the character a lot more than I did in
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: the book. Like right away, I was kind of like this,
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: like like Julie Lowry sucks, you know, but it does
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: throw an interesting curve into the story and stuff like that.
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: But Shannie Smith does a great job. She's like all
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: like super excited to see somebody, and she instantly starts
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: trying to fuck Nick, and Nick's just kind of like whoa, whoa.
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: She's like, you know, she's like damn, you know, you
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: got a big cock and stuff like that, and he's
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: just kind of like cool, you know, but he's like, nah,
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: we can't be fucking you know what I'm saying, We
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: can't fucking the drug store right now when my when
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: my special friends out there with a tummy ache, I
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: gotta go get him the peptoe. And she's kind of
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: like really put off by this. She's like, are you
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: fucking joking me? Here's the thing though, in the book,
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: Nick straight up bones her ass. In the book, Nick
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: Fuck's Julie Lowry, even though he knows that she's sixteen
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: years old. He's just like, what whatever sin of the world,
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: you know? But Rob low was probably like, I'm not
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: doing that. I don't I can't remember what it was,
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: but Rob wo had some sort of scandal going on
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: around this time. I didn't look into it, but it's
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: something about him fucking somebody, probably somebody that maybe shouldn't
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: have been fucking you know what I'm saying. I don't
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: know anyway, So he says, no, no, no, I gotta
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: take care of Tom Colin. He's got the shits, he's
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: got the Diary of shits, and he's about to ship
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: his bib overalls off of his body if I don't
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: give him this fucking pepto bismol anytime. Though, so she's
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: like whatever. He goes out there and she's she like
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: comes out after him, and she's kind of like pissy,
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: you know. She's like, he want to fuck me, so
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: I'm mad. So she over she's over Nick Andros's shoulder
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: and she's just like she's telling Tom Colin. She's like,
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: don't drink it, Tom, it's poison, you know. And Tom's like, oh,
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: fuck poison. My papa told me not to have a
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: drink poison. You know. They do the thing with Tom
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: Colin where it's like the you know, don't go full
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: retard kind of thing. Like like I said, they describe
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: him as slightly retarded, and uh yeah, it's the Tropics
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: under magic of it all, the Robert Downey Junior's suggestion
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: in that movie. So they pull that off pretty well.
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: He does have an insane bowl haircut. It's it rivals
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: Harry from Dumb and Dumber or Lloyd, right, yeah, rivals
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: Lloyd's bowl cut from Dumb and Dumber. It's very straight
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: and very shiny and almost looks like a little crooked,
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: like he's been doing it himself, if you know what
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. So anyway, Nick, you know, he calms him down.
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: He's like, Hey, this shit's not poison. It's gonna help
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: out your belly hunt. You need to fucking drink this shit.
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: And he points the gun at Julie Lowry and he's
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: just like, get out of here, bitch. We do not
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: need dress and our fucking crew. We're going to Boulder, Colorado.
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: Get the fuck out of our face. And she's just like, oh, really, motherfuckers,
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: you're gonna be sorry, and she runs off crying and
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: they're kind of like, dumbass, bitch, fucking cla, you know,
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: hit the fucking road, bitch, and stuff like that. And
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: then a second later, she's out this out of a
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: windows shooting a rifle at him, and they're just like,
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: holy shit, we gotta get the fuck out of here.
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: Luckily she misses them, but she's like doing the Xenial
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: Warrior Princess call at them and stuff and blasting and
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: just like going nuts, and it's one of those things
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: where you're just like, I wonder if she was actually
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: trying to kill them or missing on purpose, because some
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: of those shots do come pretty close, and it's like,
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: was she really gonna blast him over that? Over that interaction?
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: She's evil, evil, ass beach. Cool. Damn Sorry, that was
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: a fucking Randall flagbird. So now let's jump over to Larry.
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: Larry meets this lady named Nadine, and Nadine has like
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: blackish gray hair. Larry's kind of like, hell yeah, this rules.
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna like this lady's gonna be my fucking girlfriend
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: and shit like that, I think. And he's like, why
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: don't we team up and go somewhere, go to fucking Boulder,
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: Colorado and shit. And she's kind of like, okay, And
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: Nadine's a little weird. You kind of get it right
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: off the bat. There's something a little off about Nadine
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: and she's popping pills all the time. But they end
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: up going, you know, going out west together. They start
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: their journey quickly. They run into the Lincoln Tunnel, which
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: is one of the one of the most suspenseful scenes
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: in the book, and they do a pretty good job
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: with it here, but at the same time, I feel
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: like they kind of rush it. I feel like they
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: could have like played up some of the horror and
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: some of the suspense in this scene. But Larry, basically
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: they get into a fight right before then because Nadine's like,
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: I cannot go in that dark ass tunnel, Larry, Let's
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: just go around, and he's like bullshit. He's like, I'm
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: going through there. If you didn't want to go through there,
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: you should told me that a long time ago. Fuck,
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: this is nuts. And so she's like all right, I'm
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: going the long way and he's like, have fun getting
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: raped and murdered on Seventh Street yet, idiot, and she's
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: just like fine, and so she goes. They split up.
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: He starts going through the Lincoln Tunnel by himself, and
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: there's just all these dead bodies and shit, you know,
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: and he won't stop looking at him. He keeps telling
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: himself like, look at the don't look at the damn bodies,
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: but he can't help himself. E Actually, one of the
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: bodies like looks out and it's like you're doing Larry
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: or some shit like that, and he's like hah. But
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: then it looks back and the body is not actually
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: alive or moving or anything or talking to him. He's
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: kind of like, ooh, I'm losing it. But then he
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: hears something. It's Nadine. She's back, and she's just like, hey, yeah,
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: I've made a mistake. I'm actually gonna team up with
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: you now and stuff again. He's like all right, So
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: they go on, they get through the tunnel, they get
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: through New Jersey. They're kind of camping around and shit,
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: and basically they're like almost about to bang a lot
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: of the time, like they're kind of like getting hot
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: and heavy. But she keeps being like, I can't bang you.
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: I can't bang you, Larry. This is gonna this isn't
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: gonna be good. But but they're about too. They're kind
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: of humping around with mesh shorts on and stuff like that,
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: rubbing on each other and then when they fall, but
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: she's like, Larry, I cannot do sex with you tonight orever,
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: so let's just forget about it. And he's like all right.
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: So they go to bed, and when she goes to bed,
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: she has a crazy dream. This whole chapter is called dream,
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: so everybody he's having crazy dreams and shit. And she
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: dreams that she's in the desert with Randall Flag and
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: he's just like, yeah, we're married now, bitch, and she's
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: just like cool, you know, okay, okay, that sounds good.
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: And he's just like, you need to leave him, and
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: this is a pretty cool scene because his eyes turned
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: into little black dots, like he's got them fucking limp
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: biscuit contacts in and he's just like, leave them, leave them.
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: And then she flashes back and she wakes up and
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: she's like, holy fucking So she leaves Larry a little
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: note and basically says like, Larry, I had to leave
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: or else we were gonna have sex and that would
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: not have been good. Anyway, see you later, alligator. I'll
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: see your ass in hell, because that's where we're going.
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: That's where this story's going. And so that was one
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: of the dreams that we see there. I can't remember
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: when this happens exactly. There's another dream that happens with
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: Stu that I feel like is worth mentioning because he
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: sees Mother Abigail. For some reason, he's not wearing a shirt.
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: He's just like walking through the cornfield without a shirt on.
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: And if you know about cornfields, them shits will slice
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: you up big time. So anyway, but it's a dream,
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: so he gives a fuck. He's walking through the cornfield
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: shirtless and he sees her and he's just like, hey,
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: mother Abigail, what's up? And she's just like, hey, Stewart,
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: how are you doing, honey, And he's like, oh, pretty good,
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: just fucking hanging out in the corn, you know. And
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: then he looks down. He's like, fuck shit, there's a
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: bunch of rats on my feet. And she's just like,
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: oh yeah, it's the dark Man here too, and so
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: he takes off running through the corn again, and then
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: he runs like when he turns around, he's like in
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: I think at the hospital. He's back in the hospital
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: and he sees this guy with like his eyes fucking
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: punched out and like blood spitting out of his mouth, and.
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: He's just like, get out of your stew or something.
• 58:37
  Speaker 2: He's like, turn around, motherfucker, don't go to fucking puld
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: the Colorado. And Stud's like, oh shit, and so he
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: runs away. And then Randall Flagg just like steps out
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: of the doorway, like right in his face. And this
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: is something I haven't been able to get the captions on,
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: you know, while I'm watching this, there's no captions available, unfortunately,
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: but I swear like Randall Flagg steps out in front
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: of him and just goes the plague And I was like, like,
• 59:00
  Speaker 2: what what the fuck does that mean?
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: Why would he say that? But the more I was
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: thinking about it was like maybe he said like like
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: stay away or something like that. He doesn't want him
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: to meet up with Mother Abigail. He doesn't want this
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: like powerful force of good to uh to combat his
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: evil mission that he's on, you know what I'm saying.
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: But if he just said the play, which I'm gonna
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: have to look that up. At some point, I was
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: maybe one of the goofiest. Fuck it, it made me
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: laugh because I was like, why would he just step
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: out It's like the plague his face like that, just
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: to spook him, just to scare him. You think that's
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: gonna scare Stu Redmond. He's got another thing coming. Randall
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: Flagg more like Randall. We got past Larry and Nadine.
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: Mother Abigail. They find her, Nick Andrews finds her with
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: Tom Collen and some other people, like another couple and
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: a little girl or something, and they're just like, here,
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: we are, time to go. But she's like, first, let's
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: have a meal. So they have a big feast and stuff.
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: They break bread together and they stay the night at
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: Mother Abigail's house. And this is probably one of the
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: only other moments where you kind of see Mother Abigail
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: as a human and not just like a supernatural religious
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: force or whatever to be to be dealt with. And
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: so she's really upset because she's like, I don't want
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: to leave my damn cabin. She's got this like really
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: like Amish style way of life that she's been doing
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: for one hundred and six years now, so she's sad
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: that she has to leave and moved to Boulder, Colorado,
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: to this mysterious basically like mission that they're on. And
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: so they pack all their shit and they got I
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: think a few other people maybe show up with another
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: vehicle or or maybe not yet, but anyway, they've got
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: a couple of trucks there. And this is one of
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: the moments that just like fucking cracked me up because
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: as they're getting ready to leave, you know, she's like
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: I can't believe I'm leaving, and they're just kind of like, yeah,
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: Nick's like, you know, sorry, mother, A sorry, big time dog.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: And then they help her up in the truck and
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  Speaker 1: you think, like, first of all, what are they doing
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  Speaker 1: because they're like lifting her into the bed of the
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  Speaker 1: truck like the back, and you see that her rocking
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  Speaker 1: chair is just like ratchet strapped down and she just
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  Speaker 1: sits in it. And they take off, driving with one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and six year old woman in the back of
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  Speaker 1: a truck sitting on a rocking chair that's held together
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  Speaker 1: by ratchet straps. And it's just like, you couldn't have
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  Speaker 1: given mother Abigail shotgun, You motherfuckers, you stupid bastards. What
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  Speaker 1: if she goes flying out of the back of that thing.
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  Speaker 1: She's one hundred and six, she's extremely frail. There's no
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  Speaker 1: way she's surviving that. So anyway, they take off the Boulder, Colorado.
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  Speaker 1: We kind of see them begin the free Zone. More
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  Speaker 1: people start arriving, more people are having cool dreams and
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  Speaker 1: bad dreams, and they're just like, yeah, we're doing it.
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  Speaker 1: We're doing the Free Zone. This is gonna be great.
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  Speaker 1: And we also cut over and we see the juxtaposition
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  Speaker 1: of Randall flags Las Vegas and Randall flags Las Vegas
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  Speaker 1: kind of looks like a Ramstem music video or even
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  Speaker 1: like a Corn music video or something. There's just like
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  Speaker 1: trash everywhere and like a fucking you know, a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of goof shit going on, a bunch of like tank
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  Speaker 1: abbot looking fellows running around doing shit, but we see
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  Speaker 1: it for a second. We also see the trash Can
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  Speaker 1: Man arrived to Las Vegas at this time, and he's
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  Speaker 1: just like, hell yeah, I'm so happy to be here.
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  Speaker 1: He falls into the fountain. He crashes into a casino.
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  Speaker 1: We see Lloyd and a group of guys playing cards
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  Speaker 1: at the casino and they're kind of like, should we
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  Speaker 1: get rid of that motherfucker? He looks fucked up because
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  Speaker 1: trash Canman is covered in sunburns, he's basically wearing like
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  Speaker 1: diaper on the outside of his pants, just like full
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  Speaker 1: of shit because he's just been walking through the desert
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  Speaker 1: for like months now, who knows how long. But Lloyd's like, no,
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  Speaker 1: we're not doing shit to him because Randall Flagg said
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  Speaker 1: he's special. We got to make sure we take good
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  Speaker 1: care of him or something like that. And then one
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  Speaker 1: of the guys is kind of like where the hell
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  Speaker 1: is flag anyway, and he's like, Oh, why do you
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: want to go talk to him? And he's just kind
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  Speaker 1: of like, no, sorry, I asked. I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: go talk to him because I don't want him to
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  Speaker 1: turn me into a fucking frog or something. Because he's
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: like magic or whatever. So let me think that's pretty
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: much straps Up Part two. That's part one and part
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  Speaker 1: two in a nutshell. I think I kind of covered
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  Speaker 1: all the bases there. Yeah, yeah, I think so. I'm
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: sure there's probably some things that I'm missing, but those
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: are all the main things that kind of stood out
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  Speaker 1: to me. Now basically, what this is, what we're leading
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  Speaker 1: or what we're leading into at this point, is that
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  Speaker 1: the Boulder Free Zone is going to be more of
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  Speaker 1: a democracy and the Las Vegas area is going to
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  Speaker 1: be more of like an authoritarian style of government run
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: by Randall Flagg and his cronies. I guess you would say,
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: his like members, his followers, and that is something that's
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: like way different, and I think we'll probably get into
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: that more as this goes on. Is that like from
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: what we're seeing in Las Vegas in the movie, it's
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: very like stereotypical evil. It feels like a wasteland almost,
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean, or just like this like
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: post apocalyptic like typical almost like Mad Max style of
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: living situation that we got going on here where it's
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: it feels a lot more like lawless in a way.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: Although I'm curious to see how they do that, because
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: in the book they're almost like very similar where when
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: you see Boulder, Colorado, you see see them grow in
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: the society based off of the one that we were
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: currently living in before the plague, and how it's functioning
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: and everyone's kind of getting along and you know, people
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: are being good to each other, and I think they're
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: just happy to have more people around and stuff like
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: that and like a return to normalcy, if you will.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: But in the Las Vegas in the book, it's fairly similar.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: Other than Randall, Flagg is more harsh about punishment, I'll say,
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: I'm curious to see how we go into that as
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: this goes on, because in the book, he's just like
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: if someone does drugs, he just fucking kills him. He
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: like crucify him. And basically if someone steps out of
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: line in any way, he's just gonna smoke him. But
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: other than that, there's like a lot of really nice,
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: smart people that end up in Las Vegas as well,
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: and they're all more or less getting along. It's a
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: very civilized situation that you got going on in Las
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: Vegas as well. That doesn't seem that much different than Bolder.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: Other than who you have leading it and how that
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: leadership is being presented. So that's it Part one and
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: two of The Stand, the miniseries We Got It, We
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: Got It Done. Join me next week for part three
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: and four of The Stand. If you haven't read the
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: book yet, get started, because after that we're going to uh,
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: we're going to start getting into the book. We'll start
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: talking about that too. Thanks, thanks for listening. Have a
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: good night.