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226: The Found Footage Festival · Movie Meltdown

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  Speaker 1: Hi, this is Nick from the Found Footage Festival. You're
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  Speaker 1: listening to Movie Meltdown, the meltingest podcast around.
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  Speaker 2: It's showtime.
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  Speaker 3: The following feature has been rated R by the Motion
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  Speaker 3: Picture Association of America.
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  Speaker 4: It is intended for mature audiences and parental discretion is advised.
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  Speaker 1: Powered nuclear reactor pumping out one million kilowatts of power.
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  Speaker 1: What's up and welcome to Movie Meltdown.
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  Speaker 5: I'm Brian.
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  Speaker 6: I'm Fred.
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  Speaker 5: I'm Marlena.
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  Speaker 7: I'm Christian.
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  Speaker 2: Do we want to introduce the other guests?
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  Speaker 7: Well, we have with us the woman who lives with Fred,
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  Speaker 7: I think.
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  Speaker 8: All the listeners probably are fascinated to know that there
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  Speaker 8: is someone who lives with you all the time and
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  Speaker 8: has put up with you for many, many years now.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, that's just the way I wanted to put it
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  Speaker 7: as a kind of, I don't know, legend or myth.
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  Speaker 8: It's something, all right. So yeah, she has come along,
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  Speaker 8: but probably... Very smartly wants to have nothing to do
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  Speaker 8: with us. We are coming to you live via digital
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  Speaker 8: recording from the steps of the Clifton Center, where we
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  Speaker 8: have just watched the Found Footage Festival. So do we
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  Speaker 8: want to go right into initial reactions? Are you still
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  Speaker 8: in shock from some of these horrific and amazing things
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  Speaker 8: we've just seen?
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  Speaker 7: I didn't know what to expect. And my first reaction
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  Speaker 7: is that I'm relieved that they didn't find any of
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  Speaker 7: my footage.
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  Speaker 8: I was a little worried going into it. There's a
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  Speaker 8: lot of scary stuff of you out there. We know that.
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  Speaker 8: What was your favorite line, Marlena?
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  Speaker 2: Let's do aerobics unto the Lord, I think.
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  Speaker 8: Bless her size. Something to that effect. We saw a
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  Speaker 8: baby being born. That was before the show even started.
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  Speaker 2: I was really shocked by that. I thought it was
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  Speaker 2: going to be fake. No, there was really a baby
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  Speaker 2: being pushed out of someone's vagina.
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  Speaker 9: She even made the comment of, oh, my God, this
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  Speaker 9: is really happening.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah. The show or the baby. I'm not sure which.
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  Speaker 8: But they're both amazing.
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  Speaker 7: And then they were selling the DVD. And they said
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  Speaker 7: it had the full birth. It was like 22 minutes
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  Speaker 7: of it.
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  Speaker 2: That's a pretty short birth, though.
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  Speaker 9: Good for that woman.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, but it's a pretty long training video.
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  Speaker 8: I'm also guessing you don't get a whole lot of
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  Speaker 8: anesthesia in the back of a car when you're having
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  Speaker 8: this child. I just want to.
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  Speaker 2: What type of mother would volunteer to have a baby
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  Speaker 2: in a, like, disgusting car? Like, she volunteered for that shit.
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  Speaker 8: One who was civically minded. She was helping to show
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  Speaker 8: what happens when, you know, you're going to give birth
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  Speaker 8: and a cop needs to help you do it in
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  Speaker 8: the back of a car.
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  Speaker 9: I feel like she probably got a lot of cash
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  Speaker 9: for that. And they did point out that it was
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  Speaker 9: 56 years ago, so I don't think there was a
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  Speaker 9: lot of anesthesia available at the time. From what I understand, they, like,
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  Speaker 9: knocked you out and took your baby. If you didn't
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  Speaker 9: need anesthesia.
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  Speaker 8: There's a frying pan involved.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, like frying pans, whatever it takes. Maybe a shovel. Like,
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  Speaker 9: I don't know. I don't know how it worked then.
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  Speaker 2: I just want to say that's John Stuart Mill's utilitarian theory, like,
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  Speaker 2: put to work right there for the greater good.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 7: They did say they tracked down the baby.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 7: And they're going to interrogate the baby.
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  Speaker 8: They want answers, damn it. They want answers.
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  Speaker 2: I want answers.
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  Speaker 8: So, yeah, we got an interesting take on that. And now,
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  Speaker 8: as you may be able to hear, we're actually sitting
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  Speaker 8: on the steps outside of the place as everyone's leaving,
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  Speaker 8: going to their car. I love doing on-the-spot podcasts. We're live,
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  Speaker 8: immersed in the middle of the wonder. So, yeah, if
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  Speaker 8: nothing else, we actually talked to one of the two
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  Speaker 8: guys who has put this together. We actually talked to Nick.
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  Speaker 8: He and Joe put this together years and years ago,
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  Speaker 8: as you'll hear. And it's inspired by a horrible how-to
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  Speaker 8: video at work, which then I felt a kinship and
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  Speaker 8: had to share my horrible how-to video at work. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 8: we'll go ahead. We'll take our break here. And when
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  Speaker 8: we come back, we will talk with Nick.
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  Speaker 3: And then, on a quiet tree-lined street, evil has arrived
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  Speaker 10: All on me?
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  Speaker 1: The slaughter's begun already.
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  Speaker 8: Exactly how does a TV set kill somebody?
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  Speaker 5: Don't you find it a little creepy living in the
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  Speaker 8: Living in the what? The video dead.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the main characters are two of the dullest
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  Speaker 11: That means you shoot a chin-stroker and punter.
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  Speaker 8: No. I'm just getting confirmation.
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  Speaker 1: It's part of your problem, you know.
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  Speaker 4: You haven't seen enough movies. All of life's riddles are.
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  Speaker 1: Answered in the movies. And now, on with the show.
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  Speaker 12: When I'm at the pearly gates This'll be on my
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  Speaker 12: videotape My videotape And if a star flees It's just beneath.
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  Speaker 8: All right, we are here with Nick, the co-creator of
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  Speaker 8: the Fountain Footage Festival. I guess I want to start
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  Speaker 8: at the very beginning. Even before you started with the videotapes,
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  Speaker 8: I guess as a kid, were you interested in film
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  Speaker 8: in its basic form?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, totally. I mean, I was making movies, and I
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  Speaker 1: think every kid does that. You know, your parents could
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  Speaker 1: be just Cam Carter. And so, yeah, I grew up.
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  Speaker 1: making movies and uh and also just really interested like
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  Speaker 1: when we got a vcr i was just ecstatic i
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  Speaker 1: mean i could not believe people forget now but i
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  Speaker 1: could not believe that you could control a movie in
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  Speaker 1: in your home i mean it was just remarkable and
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  Speaker 1: um so yeah i i uh have always been interested
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  Speaker 1: in film and that joe is the same way uh
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  Speaker 1: he's the other curator and founder and um We've known
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  Speaker 1: each other since sixth grade and soon got interested in film,
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  Speaker 1: but one thing we also shared was a love of
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  Speaker 1: things that were so bad they were good. We did
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  Speaker 1: not really excel at any other academic pursuit or anything else,
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  Speaker 1: but we had a really advanced sense of irony. So
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  Speaker 1: one of my earliest memories with Joe is watching the
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  Speaker 1: TV show Small Wonder. Are you familiar with this at all?
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  Speaker 8: Unfortunately, I am, yes.
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah. I mean, our friends in middle school were
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  Speaker 1: watching it seriously, you know, and being like, did you
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  Speaker 1: see this in Small Wonder? And we could not believe it.
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  Speaker 1: We somehow thought we were tapped into some different wavelengths.
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  Speaker 1: They were not watching it ironically the way we were.
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  Speaker 1: And that was the first time that maybe... uh... we've
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  Speaker 1: developed so we went through irony cuba the early early
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  Speaker 1: in life so uh... we're fairly promiscuous in that in
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  Speaker 1: that we're we have viewing parties of small wonder and
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  Speaker 1: and uh... another you know bad videos and things like
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  Speaker 1: that from pretty early.
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  Speaker 8: Age ironic before it was cool to be a character
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  Speaker 8: i see.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly that's what i'm trying to say exactly.
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  Speaker 8: That well it's that's true i i do My sisters
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  Speaker 8: used to watch that, and they were younger than me,
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  Speaker 8: and I just sat there in awe of it. I'm like,
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  Speaker 8: they were watching it just like any other show, and
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  Speaker 8: I'm just like, I'm still a kid at this point,
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  Speaker 8: but I'm like, this is terrible.
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  Speaker 1: It's just written so bad. For listeners, I think one
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  Speaker 1: of the first shows that was nationally syndicated, so it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't created to go on a network and then syndicated later.
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  Speaker 1: It was first-run syndication. I think it was the first
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  Speaker 1: show to do that. So it looked cheap, and I
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  Speaker 1: think they skimped on the writing and hiring professional actors, too.
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  Speaker 8: And was it shot on video? Because it looked like
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  Speaker 8: it was shot on an actual video camera back when
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  Speaker 8: nobody used to do that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it was. It definitely wasn't film. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it must have been some kind of beta tape or something.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, it was the robot little girl, and...
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  Speaker 1: we would just plan time around it and watch it.
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  Speaker 1: And then when we got VCRs, we'd tape it off
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  Speaker 1: TV and re-watch it. So that was kind of our
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  Speaker 1: first dabbling into that kind of material.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I guess Small Wonder was good for something.
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  Speaker 10: At least.
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  Speaker 1: If nothing else, yeah, that good thing came out of it, yeah.
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  Speaker 8: So you did, in the beginning there, start like getting
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  Speaker 8: friends together and watching just that show I guess when
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  Speaker 8: did the first tape you know when outside of that
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  Speaker 8: did you find that you know that magical tape that
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  Speaker 8: sort of changed everything.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah well there was like a key moment I was
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  Speaker 1: a freshman in high school this would have been 1991
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  Speaker 1: I think and I was working at a McDonald's in
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  Speaker 1: my hometown Stoke, Wisconsin pretty small town And I was
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  Speaker 1: in the break room one day, and my friend was
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  Speaker 1: training to become a manager there. And he had to
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  Speaker 1: watch like a series of 35 different training videos and
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  Speaker 1: sign up things saying he'd watch them. And that was
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  Speaker 1: part of the training. And while I was in there
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  Speaker 1: one day, he was watching this one called Inside and
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  Speaker 1: Outside Custodial Duties. And it was a training video for
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  Speaker 1: McDonald's janitors. which, you know, already, our McDonald's did not
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  Speaker 1: have a janitor. So what, you know, I didn't really know.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: It was everybody's job. And we were watching it, and
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  Speaker 1: unlike a lot of the other training videos, this one
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  Speaker 1: tried to have a plot to it. And so it
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  Speaker 1: had all the normal pitfalls of training videos, where everybody's
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  Speaker 1: a little too chipper and perky to be doing the
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  Speaker 1: things they're doing. But more than that, it was just
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  Speaker 1: trainees' first day on the job. And this overly perky
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  Speaker 1: crew trainer, uh, told him that he needed to try
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  Speaker 1: to see, find McSee. Um, and McSee, it turns out,
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  Speaker 1: it stands for McDonald's Queen. So she's constantly saying like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: buff those windows. Did you see McSee? And, uh, he's like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't, what do you mean? He goes, well, I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure she's around here somewhere. So it's just like this
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  Speaker 1: mythology created around custodial work at McDonald's. And, uh, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: my thought was this cannot stay in the break room.
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  Speaker 1: This needs to be seen by everyone. And, uh, so
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  Speaker 1: I took it home, smuggled it in my backpack, showed
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  Speaker 1: it to Joe and we would have viewing parties. We,
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  Speaker 1: we invited everybody we knew over to my parents' living
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  Speaker 1: room and we'd just watch the show and make jokes
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  Speaker 1: along with it. And, um, we even made a short film,
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  Speaker 1: like a fake training video based around, you know, this video.
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  Speaker 1: It was an obsession. And, uh, There wasn't much else
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  Speaker 1: going on in our hometown, so this was our entertainment,
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  Speaker 1: our cheap entertainment. But, you know, you asked what the
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  Speaker 1: first video was, and that really was the springboard for,
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  Speaker 1: you know, what else is out there? There's got to
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  Speaker 1: be more stuff out there like this to keep us entertained.
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  Speaker 1: And it turns out there was a lot more.
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  Speaker 8: Just to veer off into my own personal sad part
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  Speaker 8: of this, yeah, around that same time, more or less,
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  Speaker 8: I was at, I'd say I won't name them, but
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  Speaker 8: we were actually just talking about me working at this
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  Speaker 8: corporate-run video store. It was actually sales, mall-based. You probably
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  Speaker 8: know which one. And they had all those training videos, too.
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  Speaker 8: And I guess what's worse, at least if they're, like,
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  Speaker 8: earnest and dopey, you know, you can just kind of
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  Speaker 8: laugh at them. But when they become self-conscious and they
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  Speaker 8: started trying to be cool in them, that's when it
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  Speaker 8: was scary. Because as they went on, like, in the beginning,
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  Speaker 8: they were just very cut and dry. But as they
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  Speaker 8: went on, they started trying to Again, we were a
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  Speaker 8: video store, so they would start trying to mimic other
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  Speaker 8: movies or popular. So you would have people trying to
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  Speaker 8: put on, you'd have them doing a film noir version
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  Speaker 8: of this training video with bad black and white footage.
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  Speaker 8: The one I really remember, there was one around that
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  Speaker 8: time when Wayne and Garth were huge, and I think
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  Speaker 8: the movie had actually come out. They did one called
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  Speaker 8: Dwayne and Garth. And they were training you how to
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  Speaker 8: be a wonderful employee and still were doing the party
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  Speaker 8: on kind of nonsense with bad wigs.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, you're blowing my mind a little bit here. Go on,
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  Speaker 1: but I have a story to tell you after this.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I mean, that was it. It was just, it
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  Speaker 8: was like 45 minutes of them, you know, party on, woo-hoo, and,
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  Speaker 8: you know, just bad wigs and T-shirts and, like, just
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  Speaker 8: some idiot that worked at a store in another city,
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  Speaker 8: I'm sure. But, oh, man, it was painful.
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  Speaker 1: This is incredible because in, I guess it was maybe
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  Speaker 1: the mid-' 90s, no, I think it was, like, the early 2000s,
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  Speaker 1: Somebody told us, like, they knew that we collected training videos,
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  Speaker 1: and they said I had to watch one at Suncoast,
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  Speaker 1: a Suncoast video where Wayne and Garth took you through the,
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  Speaker 1: you know, through what to do. And so we were obsessed.
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  Speaker 1: We tried to get it. I think we went to
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  Speaker 1: a Suncoast in Minneapolis. That's their headquarters. Yeah. We were
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  Speaker 1: living there at the time, so we asked just a
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  Speaker 1: store in a mall, like, Is there any way we
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  Speaker 1: could borrow your training video? So we told them what
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  Speaker 1: we did. We kind of leveled with them. And they're like, no,
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  Speaker 1: of course not. These are heavily guarded corporate secrets.
• 20:44
  Speaker 8: These are serious.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: So Joe actually applied for a job in a mall
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: in suburban Minneapolis and got a job at the Suncoast.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: Went through the application process, got hired. Showed up for
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: his first day of work. Worked a four-hour shift.
• 21:01
  Speaker 10: And then.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: during his break went back and and took the entire
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: stack of training videos six of them put them in
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: his bag and and then.
• 21:11
  Speaker 8: Um that's internal theft damage.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: Well yeah that's part of that's.
• 21:16
  Speaker 8: Part of that's one of those videos he took.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: Yes so if we get a hot tip that's what
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: we'll go after so this is probably as far as
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: we've gone but So, um, he took them home, dubbed
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: the videos, then went back the next day and said,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: I can't work here anymore, sorry, I quit, and handed
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: the training videos, you know, to the person working, and
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: they were kind of like, well, why are, you know, they,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: I think they had a little confused look, but they said, oh,
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry to hear that. So then we, we went
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: and watched all the training videos. There was an anti-shoplifting video,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: which is, I guess, a little ironic, um, and, and, uh,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: There was also one where they did like a Siskel
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: and Ebert parody. And they had, you know, we saw
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: one where it was like the employee, the crew trainer
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: was like, of all the video stores in all the world,
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: you had to pick this one. And it goes into
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: black and white.
• 22:06
  Speaker 10: You know.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: Just tiresome. But the Wayne's World parody one was not
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: in there. So we were always wondering if the true
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: was the legend true, and now I guess it was.
• 22:17
  Speaker 8: I watched it, and as I stayed there longer, I
• 22:20
  Speaker 8: then had to bring other people in and make them
• 22:22
  Speaker 8: watch it, which made me feel a little better, actually. Oh, yeah.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: I mean, part of our show is about commiserating. I mean,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: there's no way I could do the show alone, so
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: it's good to have other people there to share in here.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: And the suffering.
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: Definitely.
• 22:38
  Speaker 8: Well, that, you know, your McDonald's and my son Coe's,
• 22:42
  Speaker 8: they were sort of the key to all this. But
• 22:44
  Speaker 8: I guess at that point, how did you go about
• 22:47
  Speaker 8: finding more in the beginning there?
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, one thing we did already was spend
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: a lot of time at, like, Salvation Army's and Goodwill's
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: and St. Vinny's and stuff like that. And we were
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: just looking for stuff that entertained us. I mean, and clothes.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: You know, we'd look and find a great T-shirt. for
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: like a bikini car wash or something and buy that.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: We started collecting answering machine tapes we'd find, like we'd
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: find old answering machines.
• 23:13
  Speaker 8: That's a whole other rabbit hole to go down.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So we have a ton of those still. But then,
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: you know, once we saw the McDonald's video, we were like,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: let's start looking in thrift stores for these. And we'd
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: find tons of them. We found like a Mr. T
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: educational video. We found a potty training video, a lot
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: of exercise videos. This was already in the early 90s.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: They were ending up at thrift stores already. And so
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: we just find these, share them with friends, and that
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: was sort of the beginnings of the Found Footage Festival,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: just sort of us doing this for friends privately. It
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: was kind of an inside joke, really. And then, you know,
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: we went... As we got into college, we worked at
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: our campus TV station, and we found, like, all sorts
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: of old videos that were made there. Like, Kato Kaelin
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: went to our university and had some shows on the
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: air back then.
• 24:09
  Speaker 13: So, of course, you're making dubs for yourself. And then
• 24:13
  Speaker 13: after college, Joe had a job at a company that
• 24:17
  Speaker 13: rented film equipment in Minneapolis, but he also would duplicate
• 24:22
  Speaker 13: videos for companies.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Of course, the collection grew exponentially then. You got a
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: lot of videos ending up there where people wanted dubs
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: of them, and anything that looked interesting, you know, we'd
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: make an extra copy for ourselves. So the collection grew there,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: and we started expanding and, like, actively going to, like,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: estate sales where somebody died and they're getting rid of
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: all their stuff, and we'd go there and sometimes we'd find, like,
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: an old video camera in addition to tapes, and, you know,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: you'd You buy the camera, it's only a couple dollars,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: and sometimes the video's still inside. They found some pretty
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: bizarre home movies that way. You know, and once you
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: know you're looking for VHS, you find it in the
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: weirdest places. I was taking out the trash from my
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: apartment building. I find a stack of tapes in the
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: dumpster there. You know, you find them lying on the street. So, yeah, really,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: now that we know what we're looking for, it's everywhere.
• 25:18
  Speaker 8: And nobody wants them at that point.
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 25:20
  Speaker 8: As soon as DVD happened, yeah, I mean, it was
• 25:23
  Speaker 8: such a quick turnover that, like, people, like, lived and
• 25:27
  Speaker 8: died for VHS for, like, a decade there, and then
• 25:30
  Speaker 8: as soon as the next thing came along, they were
• 25:32
  Speaker 8: just like, what is this junk? And they didn't even
• 25:34
  Speaker 8: have the thing looked up anymore and started tossing it.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: What's so weird to us, too, is that, you know,
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: vinyl has been this collector's item for years now. I mean,
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: even after record players mostly went away... there's still tons
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: of vinyl collectors, and it kind of has this, like,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: sex appeal, and, you know, it's kind of cool if you're, like,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: a guy with a record trade who's finding old, weird albums. But,
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: you know, I feel like VHS is the same way.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: I mean, for the same reason that people collect records,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: it's that, you know, you find some rare and one-of-a-kind
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: things and some weird, esoteric, you know, albums because vinyl
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: was so cheap to produce. It was the same with VHS.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: Mom-and-pop operations were making small-run videos and testing the waters
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: to see what might catch on. So VHS was the
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: same way with me because it's plastic and kind of clunky.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: It doesn't have the same sort of appeal. But I
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: think for the same reasons that vinyl collectors are digging
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: through old bargain bins for a gem, we're the same
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: way with VHS.
• 26:45
  Speaker 8: Yeah yeah no i've definitely i mean you don't want
• 26:47
  Speaker 8: it for the video quality necessarily but for me it's
• 26:50
  Speaker 8: it's all the other stuff like i i got so
• 26:53
  Speaker 8: interested in the box art as it went on and
• 26:55
  Speaker 8: i've tried to pick up a few again i don't
• 26:57
  Speaker 8: find hardly any good ones anymore it's all that very
• 27:00
  Speaker 8: last run and mass produced you know just poster art
• 27:03
  Speaker 8: slapped on there or something but yeah there's a few
• 27:06
  Speaker 8: of the big box the good stuff from the beginning
• 27:08
  Speaker 8: that i've got the My Exterminator 2 box is sort
• 27:11
  Speaker 8: of my pride and joy of all those.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: Nice.
• 27:14
  Speaker 8: It's classic.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I mean, that's another thing, too. It's like,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: you know, I mean, and certainly I like streaming media.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: I like the convenience of watching a movie on Netflix,
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: for instance, and all that stuff. But there's something to
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: be said for having a physical piece of media in
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: your hand.
• 27:33
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: And being able to look at the cover art and
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: read the description on the back and all that stuff,
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: it's just more tangible. There's sort of a low-budget charm
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: to a lot of it, too. We collect VHS covers
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: as well. There's some great cover art.
• 27:52
  Speaker 8: There was. The 80s in particular. It was a whole
• 27:56
  Speaker 8: new world.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: A lot of neon shapes, a lot of little squiggles.
• 28:01
  Speaker 8: Airbrush and lots of Fine airbrushed knockoffs of Boris artwork
• 28:09
  Speaker 8: on the front.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. I mean, we do this thing in our
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: show now called the VHS cover slideshow. And, you know,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: that was one of the frustrating things about doing our
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: show where we're sharing footage was that we'd find all
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: these incredible looking videos, but then the footage did not
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: live up to the cover. So, yeah, now we do
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: the slideshow where we share it and zoom in and
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: point out things that we noticed from the from the
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: video covers, and actually it was so, proved to be
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: so popular that we released a book last year of
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: over 300 of our favorite VHS covers, along with our
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: commentary about it. So it's kind of a, it's a
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: handsome tome to keep in your bathroom.
• 28:51
  Speaker 8: Yeah, important pieces of history we need to preserve.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it really is. There's no, you know, there's no
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: temperature-controlled bulb at the Smithsonian for the Angela Lansbury exercise.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: You know, there's no organization that Martin Scorsese is, you know,
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: the chairperson of that's preserving these kind of things.
• 29:15
  Speaker 8: I think I remember stocking that one, by the way.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're doing our part as much as we can.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: We've got a spurt locker.
• 29:22
  Speaker 10: In Queens, New York with about, you know, 6,000 tapes
• 29:25
  Speaker 10: in it and continuing to grow. So we're doing our
• 29:29
  Speaker 10: part to hang on to these things. Nice, nice.
• 29:33
  Speaker 8: I guess you're compiling them at that point and you're
• 29:37
  Speaker 8: doing the shows for friends. At what point do you actually...
• 29:40
  Speaker 8: see it evolving into something more? I mean, were you
• 29:42
  Speaker 8: conscious of it in the beginning there that it was
• 29:44
  Speaker 8: becoming bigger than that?
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Not really.
• 29:47
  Speaker 10: I mean, I started looking at the Dave Letterman show
• 29:49
  Speaker 10: and I'd be sharing my videos with co-workers in the
• 29:53
  Speaker 10: conference room and stuff and a couple of times I
• 29:56
  Speaker 10: ended up on the show and being a collector and Um,
• 30:00
  Speaker 10: so I knew that maybe there was some more appeal
• 30:03
  Speaker 10: to it than just our immediate circle of friends, but
• 30:05
  Speaker 10: you never really know.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: Um, but... I think it was, yeah, it was 2004,
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: like April of 2004, and, um, I had seen a
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: friend's comedy show in this back room in, uh, the
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: East Village in New York, and, um, it was just
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: kind of a small room, maybe like 50 seats, but
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: I noticed they had a screen there and a projector,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: and I thought, well... maybe we could try and show
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: up our favorite finds here one day. Maybe people would
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: come see it. And I didn't really think anything else
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: of it, but then we were working on this documentary
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: called Dirty Country, and we didn't have any money to
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: spend on it, and we didn't have any, they weren't
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: giving a government grant out to this documentary either. It's
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: about a guy who sings raunchy country music, so they weren't,
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: They weren't giving out big grants to help make movies
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: like that. So we didn't have any assets, so we
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: couldn't get a loan. The only thing we had of
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: value was our VHS collection. We thought, let's try it.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Let's see if anybody shows up and wants to see
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: our goofy videos.
• 31:15
  Speaker 8: That may be the only time somebody's made that statement, actually.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah. It was a stupid idea, you know. And this
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: was pre-YouTube, and there wasn't this shorthand about, like, oh,
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: it's funny exercise videos. And people could be like, oh,
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: I've seen the Tracy Lord's exercise video on YouTube. That
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: didn't exist yet, so... But we really had no risk.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: We were just doing a 50-50 cut of the door.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: So they gave us this back room, and I sent
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: out some press releases to places. And amazingly, I think
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: maybe we were just at the right time when people
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: were ready to look back on the VHS era. And
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: so press really picked up on it. And I think
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: there was something in the New York Times about it.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: And we had a line of like 200 people out
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: the door of this tiny little bar trying to get
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: into our show. Like, whoa. I mean, we were just,
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: it was shocking that this thing we thought was an
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: inside joke actually had some appeal beyond our immediate group
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: of weirdo friends. And so then we started getting offers
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: to come bring the show elsewhere, and it kind of
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: evolved from there.
• 32:24
  Speaker 8: I guess, as it's gone on, maybe not what's currently
• 32:30
  Speaker 8: on the tour, but I guess overall, through the whole
• 32:32
  Speaker 8: run of it, like, what is some of, Your favorite ones,
• 32:36
  Speaker 8: you know, that have just really been sort of the
• 32:39
  Speaker 8: best ones of the run for you personally.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: I always like, you know, for us, the story of
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: how you find something is almost as interesting as what's
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: on the tape. So we always like to do detective
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: work and track down some of the people in the videos.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: So the ones that I come back to are the
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: ones where we've met the people in them.
• 32:57
  Speaker 10: Oh, wow.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: There's one we found in college. our friend was working
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: at a lumber store called Menards in college, and he
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: was doing their video production stuff. And he said he
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: was looking through, actually we were there with him, and
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: he was looking in his warehouse, and we're like, what
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: are all these old boxes? And in one of the
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: boxes we found a videotape, and it was labeled sell, sell, sell.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Just three words on it. And it turned out to
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: be an excerpt from a home shopping show, a regional
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: home shopping show from 1983 starring these two guys, John
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: and Johnny. They had their own show on this. This
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: was one of the first home shopping shows, and it
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: was mostly in Wisconsin and some other affiliates. And the
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: two hosts of this show, I mean, I wish there
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: was more footage of them, but we only had this
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: half-hour excerpt. They are just... So hyperactive. I mean, the
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: home shopping hosts are inherently obnoxious, but I guarantee nobody
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: tops these guys, John and Johnny, because they're stumbling over
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: their own words and, you know, dropping things. They're so
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: excited about selling, you know, Ferrari sunglasses and things like that.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: And so that was a big hit in college among friends,
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: and that became a big hit in our first touring show.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: And we later got to meet these guys. We tracked
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: them down. One sells Persian rugs in Seattle, and the
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: other one is still a home shopping host. He's on
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: a home shopping network in Tampa. So whenever we've been
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: in those cities, we've gotten a chance to talk to
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: them about it. And so that's definitely an early favorite. And,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: of course, Jack Rebney, the world's angriest RV salesman.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: Have you seen that footage?
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I have.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: I bet most people are familiar with it, but that
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: was another really early find of ours.
• 35:01
  Speaker 8: That took on a life of its own and a movie.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: Right, they made a movie about it called Winnebago Man.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: But this was something like we were working on commercials
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: and other crews, training videos and stuff as production assistants
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: in Minneapolis. And whenever you're there, you know, working on crews,
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of downtime, and you kind of share
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: horror stories of the worst shoots you were ever on.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: And we met this camera assistant who told us about
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: this shoot was on in 1989 in Iowa for Winnebago RVs,
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: where the crew very early on realized that the host
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: of this video was kind of in over his head
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: and had a bad temper.
• 35:44
  Speaker 13: And.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: kept losing his cool on, you know, during the shoot.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: So they, uh, I mean, God bless them. They kept
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: the cameras rolling between each take, uh, just never, never
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: hit stop on the, uh, video camera. And they captured
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: this guy's basically his descent into madness. I mean, he's
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: having a really bad couple of weeks on the side
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: of this, uh, our promotional video. And, um, so he,
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: you know, the crew had kind of put it together,
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: their own private tape. So they had a little memento
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: of this horrible shoot and he gave us like the
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: raw footage and we cut together our favorite angry tirades
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: from the shoot. And, uh, so that was a big
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: hit at our first show. We closed the show with it. And, um,
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: and then the version ended up online and then that
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: became one of the first viral videos. And, uh, uh...
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: a filmmaker years ago decided to track him down we
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: we have tried to track him down to i mean
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: this guy was the holy grail of people we want
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: to meet but that we we thought he was dead
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: of an ulcer or something else could not find them
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: so the filmmaker hired a private detective and found him
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: living like a hermit in northern california and uh... this
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: movie about it ends with him appearing at our show
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: in san francisco where he he gets the subject of
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: the video gets to see people react to it for
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: the first time. It's pretty incredible. Definitely a career highlight
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: for us.
• 37:15
  Speaker 8: Yeah, he's sort of beloved now, even, you know, for
• 37:18
  Speaker 8: all these different people. It's interesting, especially when it comes
• 37:22
  Speaker 8: full circle like that.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it's so great, because you can see, like,
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: he's a comrade, I mean, when we met him, he
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: was very prickly, and he was like, you know, who
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: are these lunatics coming to the show tonight? You know,
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: very skeptical people. And you could see him, you know,
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: we were watching his reaction to the video, seeing the
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: video in front of an audience for the first time.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: And his arms were folded, you know, he kind of
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: had this, you know, this kind of frown on his face.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: But as he saw people, like, double over in laughter, like,
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: I don't think he realized how much joy this video brought,
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: or legitimately brought to people. So, you know, all of
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: a sudden, this smile came over his face, and.
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: We compare him to, like, the Grinch, where his heart
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: grew three times its size that day. You know, you
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: could just see it. And there's a standing ovation, and
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: we were hugging him at the end. And so, you know,
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: tell us, we always say, like, this is a guy
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: who called a fly a goddamn jackass. You know, like,
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: he's just a poet. He's got his way with words.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: So we were honored to meet him and be part
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: of that story.
• 38:28
  Speaker 8: That is pretty awesome.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 38:32
  Speaker 8: Well, that's sort of the high end of it. I
• 38:34
  Speaker 8: guess to go to the other end of the spectrum, what's, like,
• 38:36
  Speaker 8: that stands out as, like, the weirdest or creepiest? I mean,
• 38:40
  Speaker 8: you run into some scary stuff, especially on VHS. So, like,
• 38:43
  Speaker 8: what's one that just has stuck with you as something
• 38:46
  Speaker 8: really creepy?
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: Oh, man, there's been a lot. I mean, there's one,
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: you know, I was talking about at state sales. We
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: went to one in Queens, New York, and, uh, it
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: was apparently the old man who had passed away. It
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: was his camcorder. We bought it for five bucks, took
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: it home, plugged it in, and there was a tape
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: still inside.
• 39:07
  Speaker 10: And it.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: Started off kind of like a normal home movie. There's
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: a teenage girl dancing to the Phantom of the Opera soundtrack,
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: wearing like a costume dress. And then it cuts, and
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: then the old man is wearing the costume dress without
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: a shirt. He's just topless, but with a skirt, gold
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: lamé skirt on, staring kind of creepily into the camera,
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: dancing to the Phantom of the Opera as well. We
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: joke that, are you sure this wasn't David Lynch's estate sale?
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: It just has that sort of vibe to it, that
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: sort of Silence of the Lambs guy vibe. But then
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: it cuts again, and it's the same guy. Now he's
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: behind the camera, and he's filming the demolition of a
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: house across the street from him in Whitestone, New York.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: And the foreman says, what are you doing filming here?
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: He goes, well, I have a rewrite to film. And
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: they get into this huge, like, stereotypical New York, you know,
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: screaming match over whether he's allowed to film the demolition.
• 40:13
  Speaker 10: Of his house.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: And then the tape ends. Like, the entire tape's five
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: minutes long. but it covers the gamut of all that.
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: Of insanity. And then you can't see his poodle at
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: one point.
• 40:24
  Speaker 8: It covers the gamut of insanity.
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: So strange. That one sticks with me. But there's one, actually,
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: in this new show that we're on tour with that
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: we've been lucky enough in that we can't be everywhere
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: at once, so people will actually donate videos to the cause,
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: and that's always our favorite thing in the world. But sometimes...
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: We think twice about it. Because we were in Vancouver
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: last year, and this guy came up with a big
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: stack of tapes for us after the show and said, hey,
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: I found some stuff for you. And I guess he'd
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: heard that a government office in British Columbia was getting
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: rid of all of its VHS collections, and he could
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: not let that happen. So he went down, rescued anything
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: that he thought looked interesting. And the tapes that were leaked,
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: caught our eye that we couldn't wait to watch. It
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: was labeled Handmade Love. White letters on a black label.
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: We had no idea what... I mean, we had some guesses.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: We really didn't know what was on it. I don't
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: think even our guesses got close to what it was.
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: It was this educational video put out by a company
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: in British Columbia. It was basically a masturbation instructional video
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: for developmentally disabled men. And their heart was in the
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: right place with this video. You know, they're obviously trying
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: to do a good service here, something that maybe not
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: people don't want to do in person, so they made
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: a video. But they did not have the resources production-wise
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: to make a competent video, so it's very homemade. Like,
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: they didn't have a tripod, so it's all handheld.
• 42:10
  Speaker 10: God.
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: The audio is really bad. It's shot in sort of
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: this depressing-looking apartment. And it just... You know, just the
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: premise alone is unsettling. So combine that with, like, you know,
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: the production values of, like, a snuff film, and you
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: kind of get a vague idea of what this video
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: is like. And then we also found out that they
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: made a sister video for women called Fingertips. Clever name.
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: So we... called up this company and sort of pretended
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: to be educators, and they sent us this tape as well.
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: So in the show, we show just enough to not
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: make people walk out of handmade love and fingertips. It's
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: kind of a one-two punch.
• 42:59
  Speaker 8: Wow, those titles.
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: Normally you play a video and people applaud afterwards. This
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: one just kind of gets a stunned silence, but we're
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: okay with that.
• 43:08
  Speaker 8: Like, it's, again, it's the titles that, like, I can
• 43:11
  Speaker 8: see them wanting to, like, earnestly go into doing this
• 43:15
  Speaker 8: for whatever reasons. You know, I guess it's necessary to
• 43:18
  Speaker 8: some level. But, yeah, then giving it this funny title
• 43:22
  Speaker 8: is almost, you know, I mean, that's what I would
• 43:23
  Speaker 8: title that kind of video.
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: Right, exactly. It's like they're almost trying to be too
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: clever or cute with these titles, and who are they
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: trying to appeal to here, you know? Like, They also
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: made another one about how to put on a condom,
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: and they called it Undercover Dick. And it's like, what
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: are you guys doing? You know, on one hand, you
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: seem sort of like you know what you're doing with
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: the titles, but the videos demonstrate otherwise. So, I don't know.
• 43:52
  Speaker 8: Very strange. The people you're trying to appeal to aren't
• 43:55
  Speaker 8: quite going to get these references or jokes or realize
• 43:58
  Speaker 8: that it's even a joke. Yeah.
• 44:01
  Speaker 10: Right.
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: Exactly. So, yeah, it's one of those head-scratching ones that,
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: you know, sometimes we like to get to the bottom
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: of certain videos, and this one I think is just
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: better left. The less you know about it, the better, probably.
• 44:15
  Speaker 8: Yeah, just that's unsettling enough right there.
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: But we still show it.
• 44:21
  Speaker 8: Well, of course. I mean, yeah. I mean, you have
• 44:24
  Speaker 8: to show it.
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: But actually, we got a little sadistic and, like, A
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: lot of times people, like if somebody's sponsoring our show
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: in town or something, like we're going to be in
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: Louisville and Wild and Bully Video is sponsoring us. The
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: one thing we started doing is a particularly graphic shot
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: in Handmade Love. And we'll pause it and say, you know,
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: I think this is a good opportunity to say thanks
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: for coming out. And thanks to, you know, Wild and
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: Bully Video and their ultimately they're sponsoring the show and
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: are responsible for everything you see on screen tonight. And
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: we just take way too long to do these thank
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: yous while there's something that most people don't want to
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: look at in close-up. And I don't know, it's almost
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: a sadistic thing. But, you know, we suffer through videotapes.
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: We kind of, I don't know if we enjoy torturing people,
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: but we, there's part of it.
• 45:22
  Speaker 8: I appreciate your sadism, so. Thank you. I think I
• 45:27
  Speaker 8: do that with some of our stuff, too. I pick
• 45:29
  Speaker 8: some of the scariest movies and then make everybody else
• 45:31
  Speaker 8: watch it.
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's part of the fun, right?
• 45:35
  Speaker 8: It is the sharing in that misery. Yeah, I think
• 45:38
  Speaker 8: as movie fans, you sort of do that anyway. I
• 45:41
  Speaker 8: can't believe how bad this is. You have to watch it, too. Yeah, exactly.
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: We did one thing a few years ago called The
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: Boring Montage. You know, most of what we watch is
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: just the most dreadfully boring, not even entertainingly boring stuff
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: in the world. And we thought, well, give people a
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: little taste of what it's like. So we picked out
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: the most boring parts from the most boring videos we'd
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: ever found, like a video called Adventures in Management and,
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: you know, like a conference call that was taped on
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: a camcorder and things like that. And we played just
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: little snippets from them. And we did that, and nobody
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: liked it. No one liked it at all. And then
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: we thought, well, let's put up a little window in
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: the corner that has exciting footage, like a fire-breathing, car-eating
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: monster truck thing. Footage tape we found in a topless
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: arm wrestling video at Motocross and stuff. So we put
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: that in the corner. So if you got too bored,
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: you'd have something else to look at. But even that
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: didn't help.
• 46:43
  Speaker 8: Yeah, you guys have to suffer through a lot of that,
• 46:46
  Speaker 8: because having seen more instructional videos than I need to
• 46:51
  Speaker 8: back at work, I've avoided them in my personal life.
• 46:54
  Speaker 8: But there were so many of them, we're like, okay,
• 46:56
  Speaker 8: we have to at least know what this is. Yeah,
• 46:59
  Speaker 8: there's so much downtime on those. Like, even to get
• 47:01
  Speaker 8: to the funny parts, you've got to sit through 45
• 47:03
  Speaker 8: minutes of boredom.
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's true. I mean, sometimes you'll watch an
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: entire video, We found this crafting instructional video called The
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: Magical Rainbow Sponge that's in the new show. It actually
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: kicks off the current show. We watched the whole thing.
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: It was about an hour long. We're like, well, it's
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: kind of a boring instructional tape for this crafting technique.
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: But then we thought the host was funny, but it
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: wasn't until after we watched the entire thing without fast-forwarding
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: that we realized, you know what, she gets way too
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: excited about these crafting things she's doing, like way too excited.
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: So we went through and we watched it again, and
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: we realized she does all these little excited little yelps
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: and saying, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, whenever she's making,
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: you know, using the sponge to paint different patterns of
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: paint on paper. And so we thought, what if we
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: just cut all those together in a row? Just the
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: part where she's squealing with delight at what she's done.
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: And it turned out to be really funny. But, you know,
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: you don't even realize it until after you've seen the
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: whole thing. So you do have to suffer quite a
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: bit sometimes before the true what you're looking for reveals itself.
• 48:24
  Speaker 8: Nobody should get that excited about a sponge.
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: No, no.
• 48:28
  Speaker 8: Certainly not a crafting.
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: Sponge, I mean.
• 48:30
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: This one just, I mean... There's a point where it
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: sounds sexual, where she's just almost orgasmic with delight over
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: this craft sponging technique. She really likes it. But I'm
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: almost envious. I don't get excited about anything in life
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: as much as she does about these sponging patterns. What
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: am I doing wrong? I wish I had that enthusiasm anymore,
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: but it's been beaten out of me by all these tapes,
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: I think.
• 48:58
  Speaker 8: Well, yeah, I certainly feel that way, too. Well, I mean,
• 49:02
  Speaker 8: you've been touring around and having the shows for years.
• 49:05
  Speaker 8: What I was kind of wondering is the fan base
• 49:09
  Speaker 8: that you've sort of created doing this, especially over the years,
• 49:12
  Speaker 8: it's like, what is that like? Because I know just
• 49:15
  Speaker 8: dealing with movie geeks normally, you've got nothing, but like,
• 49:18
  Speaker 8: when they get together, it's just constant references and quotes and, like,
• 49:22
  Speaker 8: they barely exist in the real world. When they're together,
• 49:25
  Speaker 8: it's like a whole different thing. So, like, what is
• 49:27
  Speaker 8: that like for you?
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: Oh, I mean, well, it is kind of a weird
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: thing because, you know, everybody has these sort of things
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: you do with your friends and these inside jokes. But
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: now all the inside jokes that Joe and I had
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: and our friends had are public because everybody else who
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: likes the show does them too. So all these things
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: that we quote, you know, I have just found their
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: way into other people's lexicons now too. So it's weird
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: when somebody that you don't know or maybe you just
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: meet after a show will come up and start quoting
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: something to you and you're like, how do you know that?
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: And they're like, oh yeah, this is.
• 50:05
  Speaker 8: I keep showing it to people.
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. So it's very strange, but it's fun, too.
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: It's almost like this collegial atmosphere. And, you know, for us,
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: the thing that's missing from YouTube, and certainly, like, it's great.
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: I mean, you have all these crazy videos that would
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: never otherwise surface. So we're not knocking YouTube. But the
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: thing you miss from that is you don't have the
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: communal aspect of it. I mean, you've read YouTube comments.
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: That's not a community. That's, you know.
• 50:34
  Speaker 8: That's just people cursing, usually.
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, see, what you miss is getting people in a
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: room together and watching whatever it is, a bad movie
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: or this footage that, in our case, that you're not
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: really supposed to be watching in public, or, you know,
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: it's not meant to be watched in that context, but
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: here you are with a group of a bunch of people,
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: and especially with our show where you're projecting it on
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: a big screen somewhere. in a place that serves beer, usually,
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: and you're giving people permission to laugh at, for example,
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: a training video that's similar to one you had to
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: watch where you couldn't laugh, you know? So it's almost
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: cathartic in a way, and it's contagious, and it's kind
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: of like this communal thing, this sort of happening that
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: everybody's sharing. And I think that's why, even in the
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: age of YouTube, people will come see our show and
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: and even, like, screenings of things like The Room, and,
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: you know, because it's about that experience of being together
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: and doing it, and experiencing it, rather than just watching
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: it on a little two-inch window on your laptop.
• 51:42
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I think that's, in all kinds of movies now,
• 51:45
  Speaker 8: that's coming back, because so many people aren't going to
• 51:48
  Speaker 8: the theater normally, even just to see movies. You can
• 51:51
  Speaker 8: watch them on demand, or you can just, you know,
• 51:54
  Speaker 8: wait until they hit Netflix or whatever. I think a
• 51:56
  Speaker 8: lot of that normal viewing has gone down. But when
• 51:59
  Speaker 8: you can add a show level to it, when you
• 52:02
  Speaker 8: actually have, like, a communal experience going on and interactive
• 52:06
  Speaker 8: kind of stuff, I think that keeps bringing people out.
• 52:08
  Speaker 8: And I think that's sort of finding a whole new
• 52:11
  Speaker 8: rush these days because, yeah, it's something that people don't
• 52:15
  Speaker 8: get sitting at home watching the other 95% of stuff
• 52:17
  Speaker 8: they watch.
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's encouraging, I think.
• 52:20
  Speaker 10: And, um.
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: And for us, I think more accidental than anything else. Like,
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: it wasn't some grand design. Like, let's bring this community together.
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: It was more just like, this is what you do. Like,
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: that's how we grew up was sharing these goofy finds
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: with people and somebody's, whoever had the biggest living room
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: or the biggest TV or, you know. And now it's
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: just doing that same thing, but for strangers in a
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: bigger venue with a bigger screen. And that almost amplifies
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: how funny it is. You know, you're watching a a
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: training video that was supposed to be watched on a
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: little break room TV VCR unit, and you're watching it
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: on the 60-foot screen in a movie theater or some
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: other performance venue. Sometimes we'll be sitting there watching it
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: being like, I can't believe that this video that we
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: found in a garbage can, and here we are playing
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: this at this grand movie palace or whatever. you know,
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: in Paris. You know, it's the strangest thing, but I think, yeah,
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: I think we just got lucky in that people were
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: ready to kind of have that experience again.
• 53:26
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I guess you would have to say that. I mean,
• 53:29
  Speaker 8: sitting there going, I can't believe we get to do this.
• 53:32
  Speaker 8: And other people enjoy it, too. Yeah.
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: It is very weird. I mean, everybody has their little
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: inside things, and certainly, like, most of our comedy projects
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: over the years have not found a huge audience. I mean,
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: the documentary that we made that we spent five years
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: of our life making that we ended up funding with
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: the Found Footage Festival. You know, it's on Netflix, but
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: I don't think a lot of people have seen it.
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: We're proud of it, but it wasn't widely seen. But this,
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: you know, goofy little hobby we did is now this
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: thing that we do for a living. It's very strange,
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: but it's pretty fun.
• 54:09
  Speaker 8: I guess this, as long as it's going on and
• 54:11
  Speaker 8: people are enjoying it, you will continue to do it.
• 54:13
  Speaker 8: I mean, you have... written and directed and, and, you know,
• 54:16
  Speaker 8: different types of projects. Is that something you want to
• 54:19
  Speaker 8: continue doing or, or at some point see yourself moving into,
• 54:23
  Speaker 8: you know, exclusively?
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I mean, definitely we're, we continue to do
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: things and direct videos and, um, you know, it's on
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: footage festivals, like the other, other work, like, uh, there's
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: a film festival in Brooklyn. They just hired us to
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: make a, uh, intro to the, all the movies that
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: play this year. So, uh, You know, we're doing a
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: countdown to it using exercise video reps, you know, like 10, 9,
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: pump it, you know, that kind of thing. But in addition,
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: we do other comedy films and projects like that. So
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: I think we'll continue to be doing that. And we're
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: also pursuing the Sound British Festival, like, to see what
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: else we can do with it. Like, we're on the road.
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: We've been on the road for about... 13 months now
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: with this new show. And it's been great. We've found
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: a lot of videos. We've been to, I think, 12
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: different countries with it. And, um, uh, all 50 states.
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: We have five left under 50 state tours. So, um,
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: it's been amazing, but, uh, we're ready to kind of
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: maybe find a way to get it out to people
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: without having to tour so much. So we're working on, um,
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: we've got the book out, but we're working on a
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: television show too, that, uh, we hope sees the light
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: of day, but we didn't, we're not sure. And, uh, and,
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: and yeah, we're just pursuing other things like that.
• 55:48
  Speaker 8: That's, that's cool.
• 55:49
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 55:49
  Speaker 8: I mean, you would think with this many years of
• 55:51
  Speaker 8: doing it in this year, you would start to run
• 55:52
  Speaker 8: out of stuff, but there was just such a, just
• 55:56
  Speaker 8: mass production of VHS stuff. Like it, it's, it's amazing
• 56:00
  Speaker 8: how much is out there that people don't know about
• 56:03
  Speaker 8: and hasn't seen the light of day and, and weird
• 56:05
  Speaker 8: personal videos. And yeah, so, uh, I guess really even
• 56:09
  Speaker 8: this far in, there's no danger of running out of stuff.
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, not that we're seeing. I mean, we're finding fewer
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: videos that we haven't seen already. I think that's just
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: because we've been collecting for over 20 years, so we've
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: kind of seen it all. But when you find a
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: unique video, it's incredible. And we still find a lot
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: of them. We just spent over $ 100 on videos that
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: were a dollar a piece. So we got over 100
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: videos at a thrift store in Memphis yesterday. And they're
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: all stuff that we'd never seen, hand-labeled videos and other
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: things that were unique. And so, yeah, eventually maybe we'll
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: dry up. I mean, we have talked to people who
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: work at thrift stores who say that they're not even
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: accepting VHS as a donation anymore because nobody buys them.
• 56:55
  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah.
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: And we always say, please reconsider. It's very nice. But,
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: you know, I think that's the main reason we were
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: super ambitious with this tour over the last year is
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: because we want to hit everywhere we can before these
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: things are, you know, just gone forever. So that sort
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: of lit a fire under us. But, you know, I
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: think what's cool about VHS and what people forget is
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: how revolutionary it was when it came out and how
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: it's kind of a unique moment in time that would
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: be hard to replicate in this day and age, but
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: You know, like I mentioned, when VCRs came out, you
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: could have video and movies and stuff in your home
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: and stop them whenever you wanted. You couldn't do that before, really,
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: without spooling up a film reel. And it became so
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: cheap and affordable to do. And then, you know, one
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: of the first videos that was priced for the home
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: video market that wasn't priced, you know, like $ 170 for
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: a video store.
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: Was James Fonda's Workout. I think it was 1982. And
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: it sold millions of copies. And that was... I think
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: that was basically what started the gold rush. You know,
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: it was like all these mom-and-pop operations. So, well, let's
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: get into the home video business. It seems affordable. And so,
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: because of that, you got... Not only did VCRs reach
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: market saturation, you know, like everybody had one in their home,
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: but it was cheap to make them.
• 58:23
  Speaker 4: So.
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: you've got all these weird esoteric things and people just
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: throwing stuff at a wall and seeing what's stuck. So
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: you've got things like video fireplaces and, you know, I
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: remember those. Video cat sitter. Show things that'll entertain your
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: cat while you're at work, you know, and just really weird.
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: You know, we have a video called Rent a Friend,
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: which is like if you're lonely, you put this in
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: and the guy on screen is your virtual friend for
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: an hour.
• 58:51
  Speaker 8: Okay, that's sad.
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: You know, things that you just cannot believe.
• 58:56
  Speaker 8: That's sad. Yeah. I think it really was a revolutionary
• 59:02
  Speaker 8: time and something that definitely can't happen again because we're
• 59:06
  Speaker 8: so saturated with media at this point that there wasn't
• 59:11
  Speaker 8: anything like that before, and I don't know. I mean,
• 59:14
  Speaker 8: the closest thing to it, I guess, would be when
• 59:16
  Speaker 8: the Internet hit, and it completely took over that scene. But,
• 59:20
  Speaker 8: I mean, I don't think anything has had that much
• 59:22
  Speaker 8: impact short of the Internet hitting on society.
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right. I mean, the occasional things will slip
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: out where people sort of lack that self-awareness and that
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: you'll find that on the Internet. So when it does,
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: it's really refreshing. You know, like there's that whole thing
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: of like old people trying to use webcams, you know,
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: and the reason that was like a meme was because
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: these are people who are not self-aware and didn't, you know,
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: weren't super savvy with the technology. And it was refreshing.
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: And that's what's so great about VHS is there's sort
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: of this wide-eyed innocence, this sort of naivete about the
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: format and about how things work that it would be
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: hard to duplicate in an Internet age where everyone's usually
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: very aware that what they're doing may be seen by
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: the world, maybe, you know, there's no... And they just,
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: you know, the fact that every laptop has a built-in
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: webcam now, it's... you have to be aware of how
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: you use those things and aware of irony and all
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: those things in the internet age. So, I mean, I
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: guess if there's any good news, it's that formats change,
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: but bad ideas don't. They'll always be around. So, if
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: there's a place for it to evolve, it will involve
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: people with, you know, a lot of ambition and maybe
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: questionable talent. That's sort of the, a combination with Tom
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: comes up quite a bit in our show, and that
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: still exists.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 8: Today, too. Oh, yeah. That'll never go away.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. Thank God.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 8: Well, we just kind of do a lot of general,
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 8: you know, different types of movie talk. I guess in general,
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 8: I wanted to just sort of see what your, outside
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 8: of the insanity of the stuff that ends up in
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 8: the show, what your taste in movies is. Like, what
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 8: are some of the things that you like to watch
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 8: just as a somewhat regular movie as regular as we
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 8: can get when you've seen this much stuff.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: I mostly, I mostly watch documentaries. Um, like I, I,
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: I mean, I just, I see a lot of those
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: in the theater still. I'll go see those. Um, you know,
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: I really like, uh, American movie and King of Kong and,
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: you know, the less blank, uh, documentaries and things like that.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: So that was one thing early on that I was
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: really into and why I was inspired to make, uh,
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: feature length documentary with Joe so I still do watch
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: a lot of those yeah I thought last year one
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: of my favorite movies was the forgetting the name of
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: it about the people who bought the huge house in
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: Florida and then they economy tanked and they had to
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: they were trying to sell it oh Queen of Versailles
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: loved that movie thought it was a fascinating character study Um,
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: and I appreciate, like, I guess maybe that's my taste
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: in things that are more real in, uh, uh, but, um,
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: but yeah, other than that, I watch a lot of, um,
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: independent movies and foreign and, and, uh, you know, and
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: I'll go see the Avengers and stuff like that. So
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: I do, you know, watch about a movie a week
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: in the theater when I, whenever I can.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 8: So, um, I guess the documentaries, especially those type of documentaries,
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 8: it doesn't surprise me because that's almost that same thing
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 8: we were talking about of being unaware. It's like most
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 8: of those, they set out to make one movie and
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 8: they end up just stumbling upon this much bigger story.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 8: And some of those are perfect examples of that type
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 8: of thing, which is, again, what you find in what
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 8: you do anyway.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think there's a connection there. I mean,
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: I really like Errol Morris and the Maisels and all
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: those sort of documentarians or.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: Big influences and big appreciators of them growing up.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 8: Definitely. Well, yeah, as you said, you've been out on
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 8: this tour for quite a while now. Is that the
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 8: most you want to do is just kind of get
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 8: the word out about the tour and tell people to
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 8: go find you that way?
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think the call to action I
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: always have is that Joe and I can only be
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: in one place at a time. It's usually only for
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: an afternoon. So we're hitting thrift stores and looking for
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: VHS tapes whenever we're in a new city. But I
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: would just say that if you go to a thrift store,
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: check out their VHS section. If there's anything that looks interesting, funny,
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: or weird, let us know about it. Our website is foundfootagefest.com,
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: and we've got an email on there and actually our
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: physical address, too, in Queens.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 8: Cool.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: We love it when we get a package of videos
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: in the mail. It's like Christmas morning for us. We
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: tear it open and can't wait to see what's inside. So, yeah,
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: we'll give these videos a good home. So that will
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: be my main thing. And, you know, we continue to
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: tour and probably are coming somewhere near wherever you're listening
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: to this.
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 10: So.
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: go to our website, find out when we're going to
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: be in your town, and if we're not in your town,
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: email us, and we'll come there.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I always try to look at the VHS in
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 8: the Goodwills and stuff like that, but yeah, it's just
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 8: getting sad anymore. It's all that very last run of stuff,
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 8: stuff that was like, wow, I didn't even know they
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 8: put this on VHS. That's about all that's left.
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, there's these, and we always see the
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: same tapes, like you see, kind of Air Force One,
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: that had a huge, must have just gotten a huge
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: distribution on VHS. And it was a movie that's ultimately
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: pretty forgettable. So that's straight off to the thrift store.
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: There's a children's movie called The Buttercream Gang, which in
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: our early days, we'd pick that up because there's like
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: this group of kids on it. It looks like a
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: stupid kids movie, but it's just a boring kids movie
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: is what it is. And we see it at every
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: single thrift store. I mean, you go to, I'm sure
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: if you went to a thrift store in Louisville, you
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: would find at least one copy of The Buttercream Gang.
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: They're just littering thrift stores all over the country. I
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: feel like there must have been this free thing that
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: churches handed out or something. I have no idea why
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: this found such wide distribution, but it's a running joke
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: between Joe and I, where it's just like, hey, what
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: do you know? They've got a buttercream gang.
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 8: Yeah, sometimes they give that stuff away. That's why you
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 8: saw an abundance in that first wave of DVDs. there
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 8: was a huge, and it would be an every used
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 8: DVD shop, would be Stepmom with Julia Robertson.
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 13: Oh, yes.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 8: Because they gave them away with the DVD players. And
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 8: like before the secondhand places started to realize that, they
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 8: were just like, wow, we sure are getting a lot
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 8: of it. And there'd be like six of them and
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 8: everyone would go to it. It's like, it's because everybody
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 8: got it for free, didn't want it, and turned around
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 8: and tried to go get another movie for it. So
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 8: I'm sure the VHS was the same thing.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, like, I think for that same reason you find, like,
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: a lot of, like, we find Babes in Toyland, or
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: Toys in Babeland. I'm sorry.
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 8: I rented that one. That's a different one.
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: But, yeah, Babes in Toyland with Keanu Reeves and I
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: think Phoebe Cates or something.
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah.
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: It's a really unremarkable movie, but McDonald's was giving those away. Like,
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: if you bought, like, a value meal in the 80s,
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: you could either buy that Mr. Mom, or one other movie.
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 8: There was a Wayne's World run of that, too. Yeah,
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 8: that's why there were so many of those. Back to
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 8: Wayne's World.
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: Exactly. So it is, you know, it's one of those
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: anthropological things, like, you know, I think the most common
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: CD you find at a used CD store is Please
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: Hammer Don't Hurt Him. So it's interesting to me, like,
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: what has staying power and what doesn't? What's immediately at
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: the thrift store and And then also what's on the
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: widest distribution. You can tell those things by just looking
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: at your local thrift store.
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I have noticed that in CDs and movies. Yeah,
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 8: you can tell what... It's pretty fascinating. Yeah, and almost
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 8: in a way it has its own staying power. It
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 8: will always stay at the thrift store. So it's like
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 8: you'll always have access to it until you just totally
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 8: melt them all down, I suppose.
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: Right, yeah, it's not going anywhere.
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 10: So....
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: I guess at least those will be like the cockroaches
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: that survived the apocalypse will be Babes in Toyland and Mr.
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 8: Mom. That's true. We'll be in an underground bunker somewhere
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 8: surrounded by cockroaches watching Mr.
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 10: Mom.
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 8: That doesn't sound too bad, really.
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: That doesn't sound too bad. Yeah, Michael Keaton, I could
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: deal with that.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 8: That's a classic, man. I can watch that with cockroaches.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Toys in Babeland would be its own form of hell,
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: or Babes in Toyland. Why do I keep.
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 8: You just like hitting the behind the curtain room. That's
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 8: what she's on.
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: Somehow the... I don't know if it's a national, I
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: think it's just a New York sex shop called Toys
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: and Babelands. And for some reason, that's taken the first
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: seating in my brain.
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 8: For some reason.
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, for some reason. I don't know. Maybe I just
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: walked by it. I don't know.
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 8: Well, yeah, we could definitely, yeah, foundfootagefest.com and tell people
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 8: to send you videotapes and go there and figure out
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 8: what the schedule is and come out and see you live.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 8: Sounds like a plan.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that'd be great. It's a really hard show to describe,
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: but I think your listeners will get it. Definitely. And
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: once people go, I think they instantly get what it
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: is and enjoy it. And a lot of times people
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: will bring friends, like, the next time it comes. town
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: or something and it's grown that way and it's super
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: cool to be part of this community that sprung up
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: sort of by accident. I mean it's a really encouraging
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: thing to think about this goofy thing that you thought
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: made only you and your friends laugh and to find
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: out that there's a lot of other weirdos too that
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: enjoy this kind of material so so yeah I would
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: I would encourage people to just come check.
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 8: It out definitely that sounds good well thanks for talking
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 8: to us and I think that is about.
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: It thanks for having me this is.
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 5: My way of saying goodbye cause I can do my
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 5: face to face and.
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 12: Talking to.
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 9: I just don't understand how, like, you have to teach
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 9: people to masturbate. Like, I just can't get over that.
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 7: Are you forgetting that they were mentally challenged?
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 9: But even mentally challenged people, like... From what I understand, well,
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 9: and from things I've witnessed, don't have to be shown
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 9: that they have certain body parts and what they can
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 9: do with those body parts.
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 7: Well, many of them are masturbating, but only at a
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 7: fourth grade level.
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 8: We really need to master the technique. No pun intended. Okay, fine.
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 8: Pun intended.
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 10: Whatever.
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 2: When she was saying that, R. Kelly's voice comes in
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 2: my head. And says, I can top that. I can
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 2: top that shit. So my friend, maybe you should bleep
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 2: his name out, although I don't think he would be
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 2: ashamed of this. He used to work with special people.
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 2: And for some reason, there was like it was like
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 2: a home for people that kind of lived like assisted,
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 2: but sort of on their own. And there is a
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 2: married couple that some of the orderlies would have to
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 2: help have sex. They would have to, like, put her
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 2: on top of him and, like, move her. I'm just like,
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 2: if you can't do it, you can't do it.
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 7: I don't know. There are actually, like, international laws about that.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 7: And they feel that it's, like, something people have a
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 7: right to do.
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 8: But if you don't know how to.
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 7: Well, then you need help. That's what people are in
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 7: the profession for. forest to help people have a rewarding life.
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 9: I just wonder if one of these videos could have
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 9: assisted them. It's sad that they didn't have access to it,
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 9: I guess. I don't understand. If you can't do it,
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 9: I don't know that a training video is going to help.
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 8: More importantly, where do I sign up for this? I
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 8: think I might need help. Somebody... Needs to supply a woman. Anyway,
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 8: somebody get a hold of me with the details. Yeah,
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 8: so we're back. Thank you to Nick for giving us
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 8: the details of the putting together this festival, which it
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 8: is amazing, like, that it's come together. The way that
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 8: it has is, like, organically as it has, and then
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 8: it's grown into this thing that, like, so many people
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 8: kind of respond to now it's it's pretty amazing it.
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 7: Was a lot more fun than i expected you hear
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 7: like found footage and it's yeah okay i found footage
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 7: it was funny but they had a really tightly edited
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 7: uh horrifying and delightful program.
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 2: I just expected it to be, like, banal and possibly
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 2: sometimes awkward found footage. But every second was fucking hilarious.
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 2: Emphasis on the fucking part. Because it was hilarious. I mean,
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 2: I almost peed. I think everybody did. I mean, it
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 2: was really funny.
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 9: Except for the wound.
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 8: What was it?
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 9: Wound rounds live or whatever? That wasn't hilarious. It was
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 9: really disturbing. And I think I gagged. I might have
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 9: thrown up.
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 11: A little bit.
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 9: They did.
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 7: And they landed on what was it?
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 9: Wheel of Wounds. Diabetic foot ulcer. Yeah.
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 8: Wait, you didn't do the dance.
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 7: The crowd was like, yes!
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 9: I think I need to watch that other training video
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 9: of the guy dancing to be able to master that dance.
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 8: I disagree. I think that one was very funny, actually. Again,
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 8: when they started showing the footage, I was like, oh,
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 8: this is just going to gross people out. But when
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 8: they spin the wheel of wounds and the guy starts
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 8: climbing out of the diabetic foot ulcer. I'm not making
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 8: that up. Go see the show. He does it. And
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 8: it's not just a bad cutout graphic. It moves with him.
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 7: They went to some trouble for their special effects.
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 8: Not really good trouble because it still looks bad, but
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 8: the fact that they bothered to make it creepily move, yeah,
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 8: it's really disturbing.
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 9: I think there were sound effects too, wasn't there? Like
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 9: the gushiness of the wound.
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 7: I couldn't tell if that was a sound effect or
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 7: it was just the noises of people squishing their faces
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 7: in agony.
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 9: It was probably mine you heard.
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 8: Or just leftovers of that birth explosion from the beginning.
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 7: Just to get the party started.
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 8: Birth explosion. My new band will be playing all over America.
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 7: What did they say? You can buy the DVD if
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 7: you want to ruin your next party.
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 8: That would do it, actually.
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 9: What about for the non-official opener?
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah. That one. Any of these will probably, but
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 8: the birth will definitely ruin your party. The wounds won't
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 8: help either, really, but it's still pretty funny because everybody
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 8: could do that little dance that the guy does.
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was good.
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 7: Didn't he look like somebody in the Bush administration? Who
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 7: was it?
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 8: Every guy in the Bush administration. He did.
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 7: He looked like everybody in the Bush administration, and he
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 7: seemed really happy.
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 4: To be there.
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 2: I thought the guy that was doing the... the guitar
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 2: finger exercises. It looked like John Waters dressed as Riff
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 2: Raff from Rocky Horror Picture Show.
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 7: Yeah, good call.
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 8: I wouldn't put it past him. John might do that. Oh,
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 8: are there other classics we're forgetting?
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 7: I mean, there's... Yeah, well, there was the magic sponge.
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 2: The possum massage.
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 7: The possum massage.
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 9: The Get Rich Quick videos. The one, especially, my favorite
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 9: was the one where she said that they didn't, like,
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 9: they specifically didn't hire someone and pay someone to make
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 9: it a flashy video. Because if you're rich, why would
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 9: you waste money doing that?
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 8: And we didn't notice that as it starts on the
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 8: trees in their backyard with the bad built-in 1982 credits
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 8: that are in your camera. Yeah, it was scary.
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 2: There's just so much. It's overwhelming. It has shorted all
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 2: my brain circuits.
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 7: There's the potty training video. I thought in the kids'
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 7: video section, they had a whole section of kids that
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 7: they might have It might include one of my favorites,
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 7: which is because they were talking about music and songs.
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 7: Somebody gave me once a VHS of The Adventures of
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 7: Young Moby Dick, which is a musical. And it's just
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 7: the most amazing thing I've ever seen.
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 9: So is this like a musical starring a baby whale?
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 9: So is he like, oh, I think I'm going to
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 9: need to watch this?
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it's really good. I think in the beginning, he can't...
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 7: What is it whales do? I don't know.
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 10: Whale?
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 7: He can't dive up out of the ocean or something.
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 7: He can't blessercise. And his mom is trying to encourage
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 7: him to do this. In a way, it's like the
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 7: movie Happiness, if you've ever seen that.
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 8: It's exactly like Happiness.
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 7: And there's like a starfish in it with a Mae
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 7: West voice. And it's young Moby Dick. It's the adventures
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 7: of young Moby Dick. And it's one of those like
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 7: little knockoff videos, usually with most of them have a
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 7: religious quality. And they try to knock off the big
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 7: Disney movies and look vaguely like them. But you can
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 7: buy them for like two dollars for your kid and
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 7: and ruin their lives.
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 8: I think this was sponsored by SeaWorld, though, because does
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 8: anybody aside from Shamu or the new incarnation of Shamu
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 8: actually do that jump in the air? In the natural world,
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 8: is that really going on, or is it just, hey, kids,
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 8: you'll never see this anywhere but SeaWorld. Come on over.
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 7: I don't know, Free Willy.
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 8: Once again, I think he was prompted by that weird
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 8: little child.
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 7: Prompted by a weird little child.
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 9: That Alaskan hermaphrodite or whatever it was that started.
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 8: It, maybe. What movie were you watching? That's a different
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 8: Free Willy that you rented. You went behind the curtain
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 8: and got Free Willy.
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 9: Okay. That's what was in that room.
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 10: Okay.
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 9: I didn't quite understand it. You were talking about having
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 9: a religious quality. Most of the videos that were shown tonight,
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 9: with the exception of the bluster size video, I have
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 9: viewed at some point in my life, mostly in my childhood.
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 9: you know I may have ran across them in my
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 9: adulthood and like been like oh let's let's watch this
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 9: again but they started out like the very first video
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 9: was the power team and it was these dudes that
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 9: used to travel around and like tell people about Jesus
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 9: and like blow up water bottles and phone books in
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 9: half and I remember my brother like being on some
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 9: kind of exercise program to be like them.
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 8: And so sad.
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 7: That's funny because I was listening to a storytelling podcast,
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 7: a live storytelling, and a guy who was a minister
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 7: told a story, and it was just fascinating because it
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 7: wasn't a very good story, but it had that quality
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 7: that while you never think he's lying or making anything up,
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 7: but it's clearly absolute bullshit from start to finish. It
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 7: has that quality like a sales pitch or something. And
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 7: then in the middle of the story, he tells the
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 7: story of how he tells the story of Easter. And
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 7: it's a Western or something. Why the fuck are you
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 7: dressing it up as Django Unchained? I don't know. It
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 7: makes no sense.
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 2: I've never seen across the universe, but I'm pretty sure...
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 2: That guy's pitch for Flower Power became across the universe.
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 8: Am I right? Flower Power was pretty amazing, I have
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 8: to say. I would have backed that guy.
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 7: Well, if for nothing else, just the umbilical cord guitar.
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 9: Which you can get if you contribute to the Kickstarter
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 9: fund to actually make this movie. So I want the
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 9: listeners to kind of consider that in there.
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 7: That was one of the things, and there were several,
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 7: that after they showed it, they assured everyone that that's
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 7: the last of that for the night. We won't have
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 7: to see any more of that.
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 8: Yeah, they were very scary topics, and I like that
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 8: they had multiples. Within the same show, they had several
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 8: appearances of certain things.
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 2: I mean, I really enjoy that there's footage out there for, like,
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 2: such specific things, like possum massaging and, like, Just, like,
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 2: how to carve a Santa face.
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 9: By Bosephus.
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 7: I actually thought that guy looked like Bono.
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 9: What was it carved into?
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 8: It's victim.
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 7: You find a hobo and carve him to look like Santa.
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 7: And then next week it's on wound rounds.
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 8: Do the dance. Do the dance. No, I was doing
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 8: the dance. Yeah, you guys heard that, right? Marlena is
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 8: doing the dance.
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 2: Check out the sweet moves.
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 7: Yeah, that was a blast.
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 2: This is a shame that this is not a public
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 2: access show because we could be almost as good as
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 2: Frank's weird dancing with the Italian dress or the French dressing,
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 2: I guess.
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 8: Dancing with Frank was... He was right. It's a train wreck,
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 8: and you can't look away. It's horrifying and confusing, and
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 8: I don't know what to do with it. But I'm
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 8: kind of glad I've seen it now. I don't know
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 8: what to do with it.
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 7: That's all right. I had two pieces already.
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 2: That was a big-ass cake. That's an ass cake.
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 8: You want to break off a piece of it?
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 9: Hey, ass cakes exist.
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 2: It's like cakes shaped like asses.
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 8: Sure it is.
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 9: I don't know.
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm sure it's something.
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 8: You know.
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 2: No, I'm not going to say it. I'm going to
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 2: get off topic.
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 7: No, now you have to say it. And now it's
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 7: time for a Marlena moment.
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 2: There's only... I recently took this sexuality class and I
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 2: only learned one new thing.
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 9: Why aren't.
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 2: You teaching that class? I don't know.
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 8: Maybe someday.
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 2: Maybe someday.
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 7: They should give you a refund.
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 2: But I'm only going to say, I'm not going to
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 2: explain what it is, but I'm just going to say
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 2: cream pie. And I feel really guilty for not knowing
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 2: what that meant. But my professor was really impressed because
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 2: he showed us. a Spice Girls music video and then
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 2: a Killers music video and asked what those two have
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 2: in common. And I said they were inspired by Russ
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 2: Meyer's Faster Pusket Kill Kill. So I got an A-plus
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 2: for the class. I mean, I earned that A-plus, but
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 2: I feel like he would have given it to me anyway.
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 7: Did you get the highest grade of anyone in the class?
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 5: I did!
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 7: I think people wanted to know that.
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 1: Nerd.
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 8: Sexual nerd.
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 2: I was really proud because I went through a lot
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 2: of embarrassing moments for that 100% in that class because
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 2: when he's like, I feel like maybe sometimes his questions
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 2: were rhetorical, but when he's like, does anyone know what
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 2: bukkake means?
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 9: And I'm like, I do.
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 10: I do.
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 8: Throw your hand up.
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 5: Oh, oh, oh.
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 2: I earned that 100% with my awkward knowledge of things
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 2: like Cleveland Steamers.
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 8: Why doesn't someone make a video of you is what
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 8: I want to know. Because it needs its own festival.
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 4: I believe.
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 7: Is the comic book going to happen?
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I have to learn to draw.
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 10: Oh.
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 8: That's an installment in the show right there.
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 2: I've been working on it. I drew something on April 9th.
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 7: I saw you were shopping for drawing tables. Did you
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 7: get that drawing table?
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 2: No, it wasn't for sale.
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 7: Oh, that's right. Just stealing.
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 2: They do have a replica at World Market.
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 7: Yeah, you tell me.
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 2: It's $ 300, though.
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 7: I don't really need one because I have a drawing
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 7: table that I don't use.
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 8: I just use a table.
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 2: I made a desk out of a door and two
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 2: file cabinets, so.
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 8: Damn straight. That's how you do it.
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 7: Old school. I like those old, like, drawing benches. Like,
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 7: in life drawing, you stand them upright. So, I built one.
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 7: I couldn't find one to get the dimensions, so after
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 7: a couple years of thinking, I'll do this, I just, like,
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 7: fuck it, I'll make one. And I made it, and
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 7: now I just set stuff on it.
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 8: This has been making drawing benches with Fred.
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 7: Yeah, actually, I ought to do that video.
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 8: Be kind, rewind. You should.
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 2: Like, I've been waiting to get an accordion for, like,
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 2: years and years. And in a weird set of circumstances,
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 2: I acquired two in, like, a month. And I use
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 2: them as an end table. Both cases are stacked on
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 2: top of each other, and there's books sitting on top
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 2: of it.
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 8: This is issue three in the comic.
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 2: I'm like, I put my finger in too many pies.
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 2: This is my problem.
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 8: Back to the sexual reference.
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 2: Too many pies.
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 9: Did any of them happen to be cream pies?
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 6: No.
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 8: I'm going to go eat my ass cake.
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 2: I don't have time for this. You can not put
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 2: that in the air. That was mostly for your all's enjoyment.
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 8: I think everyone enjoys your stories.
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 2: We're all friends here, and I want to share tidbits
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 2: about my life with you guys. And I forget that
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 2: we're on air.
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 7: I like how you don't remember them next week. But
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 7: everybody else does. Everybody else, remember that time, and you're like, oh, yeah.
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 8: Yeah, actually. You know what's really hilarious?
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 2: I have an excellent memory. Like, I almost never forget
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 2: anything except things that happened to me. But if I
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 2: had to read it, if you were to, like, if
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 2: someone were to, like, transcribe everything that I say and
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 2: I read it afterwards, I would never forget it ever.
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 2: But since it happened to me and I told the story,
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 2: I'm just going to forget that it happened.
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 9: You just kind of released it.
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 6: I know.
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 9: It's like a baby turtle.
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 8: We need to capture this.
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 12: Like a turtle.
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 8: So all that fun and more can be had if
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 8: you go find yourself the Found Footage Festival in your
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 8: local area. So as we said before, it is foundfootagefest.com.
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 8: And yeah, go figure out where they're going to be.
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 8: And it's quite entertaining, not just the videos themselves, but
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 8: I think the guys have put together sort of a
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 8: fun show around it. So it's And that's something I noticed, too.
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 8: I've seen clips of this stuff at home by myself,
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 8: and it's awkward and weird, but, like, seeing it in
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 8: a room with a whole bunch of people is an
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 8: entirely different experience. It really is a lot more fun,
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 8: I have to say, being awkward in a whole room
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 8: full of people.
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 9: And you know what?
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 2: I just got to thinking. So they did montages of
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 2: the most awesome parts of, like, videos. We should do
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 2: that of, like, the most awesome parts of, like, stuff
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 2: that Fred says and the most awesome stuff that Greg says.
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 2: The most awesome stuff that I say and you say.
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 2: Everyone should have their own montage of stuff that's hilarious
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 2: that they say.
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  Speaker 8: I've put minor ones together in the past, but then
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  Speaker 8: I don't know that anybody wants to. I don't know
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  Speaker 8: how to find a way. Again, we're still trying to
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  Speaker 8: find listeners in general. Let me know when that kicks in.
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  Speaker 8: I've been waiting for that. If you guys want to
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  Speaker 8: hear those, let me know. And if we get hundreds
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  Speaker 8: and hundreds of requests, I'll put them together.
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  Speaker 2: College kids are really dumb. And they'll, like, do anything. Like,
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  Speaker 2: if you call it an internship, they'll do anything for
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  Speaker 2: no money.
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  Speaker 8: And back to my plan from earlier. Hold on. Tie
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  Speaker 8: that in.
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  Speaker 2: At least that's my theory.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I've never had an internship yet, although I'm about to
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  Speaker 2: have an internship.
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  Speaker 8: Would you like to have one? Here at Movie Meltdown,
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  Speaker 8: we're looking for interns.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think that's a good idea.
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  Speaker 8: We'll get right on it.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't there, like, a place somewhere that has a radio school?
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  Speaker 2: I just made myself sound like a mentally handicapped person.
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  Speaker 8: Hey, do you know how to take care of business?
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  Speaker 8: Because if not, I've got a video for you. All right.
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  Speaker 8: I think, yeah, on that note, we should get out
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  Speaker 8: of here.
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  Speaker 7: That's the sound of us driving off.
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  Speaker 8: That was Todd from Wild and Wooly. This was their
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  Speaker 8: birthday celebration.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, 16th birthday.
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  Speaker 8: It's very fitting that he just pulled away. So I
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  Speaker 8: think it's time to head out ourselves. So with that,
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  Speaker 8: otherwise that about does it. We will return next week.
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  Speaker 8: Same geek time, same geek feed. Thanks for listening.
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  Speaker 4: If your life was on videotape, wouldn't everything be all right?
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  Speaker 8: When your head.
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  Speaker 4: Hurts the morning after, then you could roll it back
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  Speaker 4: to late last night. You could replay all the good
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  Speaker 4: parts and cut out what you don't like. Oh, wouldn't
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  Speaker 4: you be in good shape if your life was on videotape?
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  Speaker 4: If everybody had ESP Everything I'd be okay We could
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  Speaker 4: see trouble coming And we could step out of the
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  Speaker 4: way When that grim reaper comes to call, then we
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  Speaker 4: could arrange to be out of town. It would be
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  Speaker 4: the great escape, and you could put it on videotape.
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  Speaker 4: ¶ I don't have a video recorder ¶ ¶ ¶
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  Speaker 4: I don't have a crystal.
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  Speaker 5: Ball ¶ ¶ ¶.
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  Speaker 4: When I'm not with my baby ¶ ¶ ¶ And
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  Speaker 4: I don't have very much at.
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  Speaker 5: All ¶ ¶ ¶.
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  Speaker 4: I can't predict the future ¶ ¶ Baby, I sure
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  Speaker 4: can't change the past But I know it will all
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  Speaker 4: make sense If you love me in the present tense
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  Speaker 4: And if your life was on videotape Wouldn't everything be alright?
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  Speaker 4: When your head hurts the morning after You could always
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  Speaker 4: roll it back to late last night You could replay
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  Speaker 4: all the good parts And cut out what you don't
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  Speaker 4: like Oh.
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  Speaker 5: Wouldn't you be in.
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  Speaker 4: Good shape If your life was on videotape Oh, wouldn't
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 4: you be in good shape if your life was on videotape?
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  Speaker 2: I had a terrible nosebleed for like four days.
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  Speaker 8: Issue seven.
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  Speaker 9: I think that's awful. Like, why is that so funny?
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  Speaker 8: Because it's Merlin. I feel her pain.
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  Speaker 2: It's probably from that. It's probably from that.
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  Speaker 7: The snoring.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: That's got to be hard.
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  Speaker 6: by The Empires.
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  Speaker 10: Talk hard!