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Uncle Sam (1996) - Staff Picks · Beyond The Blood: A Horror Movie Commentary Podcast

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  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 3: Welcome back to Beyond the Blood. That's quite the intro,
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  Speaker 3: So welcome back to uh Beyond the Blood staff picks.
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  Speaker 3: This is the show where we we don't have a
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  Speaker 3: commentary to dive into, though this movie does have a
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  Speaker 3: commentary track. Maybe we'll get into that another day. Uh.
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  Speaker 3: And it says our fourth of July special that we've
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  Speaker 3: never done before and it was just convenient that it
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  Speaker 3: was fourth of July week and we had to record something,
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  Speaker 3: so here you go.
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  Speaker 4: I couldn't have picked a better film to cover on
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  Speaker 4: the Fourth of July. I felt like that this was
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  Speaker 4: just meant to be.
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  Speaker 3: I think we should have covered Independence Day Resurgence.
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  Speaker 4: No, I'm okay.
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  Speaker 3: Are you a big Fourth of July guy? Like you
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  Speaker 3: down some down some glizzies.
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  Speaker 4: I was down for the Fourth of July discussion until.
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  Speaker 3: You said that you don't like you don't like hot thugs.
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  Speaker 4: I just don't calm that. But I just like I
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  Speaker 4: was trying to be cool, very trendy. Yeah, No, I
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  Speaker 4: definitely like Fourth July. I mean, I think my favorite
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  Speaker 4: times that I can recall are either going out on
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  Speaker 4: the boat, barbecuing, watching fireworks. Honestly, anytime I can get
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  Speaker 4: an opportunity to get out in the water, man, I'm
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  Speaker 4: all for it. So what about for you? Yeah, I was.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we used to we used to do fireworks
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  Speaker 3: and even still now this day. Like, I love watching fireworks,
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  Speaker 3: so I always get excited about that. And I'm a big,
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  Speaker 3: big hot dog guy, so I get.
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  Speaker 4: To enjoy you know some Is that why you're bringing
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  Speaker 4: it up?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, dude, I mean I just just to smooth the transition.
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  Speaker 3: I don't I don't think a week goes by. I
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  Speaker 3: don't enjoy a I don't enjoy at least at least
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  Speaker 3: a while. Wa hot dog.
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  Speaker 4: You know you guys heard it here first, hot dog
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  Speaker 4: affection ado.
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  Speaker 3: Hot dogs have been trending over the last couple of years.
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  Speaker 3: There's been a resurgence.
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  Speaker 4: From who from who? Nobody said that mean.
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  Speaker 3: People talk about hot dogs. Look, dude, there's a couple
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  Speaker 3: of things that twenty twenty six have brought the light
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  Speaker 3: right like people were people were smoking darts again, and
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  Speaker 3: people were eating hot dogs. You heard it?
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  Speaker 4: Not the same thing, It's not even close even in the
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  Speaker 4: same strasphere do.
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  Speaker 3: You do it together?
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  Speaker 4: Man?
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  Speaker 3: It's the guys that stand outside of wah wah and
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  Speaker 3: smoke cigarettes that eat wah wah hot dogs. And I
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  Speaker 3: know this for a fact because when I pull up
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  Speaker 3: the wah Wah if it's any time between eleven AM
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  Speaker 3: and one pm, all the blue collar guys are there
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  Speaker 3: because they can't their trucks don't fit in parking spots,
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  Speaker 3: so they're all around the perimeter of the parking lot.
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  Speaker 3: Seven of them are surrounding a wah wah trash can.
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  Speaker 3: And I know for a fact that there's gonna be
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  Speaker 3: no hot.
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  Speaker 4: Dogs survival Denis Man.
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  Speaker 3: I just know they I have to get there either
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  Speaker 3: before them or after them, and I don't know. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it happens.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, So let me ask you what's a wah wah
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  Speaker 4: oh ship?
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  Speaker 3: I forgot that. You don't have a wat uh? What's
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  Speaker 3: a what?
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 3: What's your local? What's your local? Like gas station? We
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  Speaker 3: have seven elevens Okay, So it's it's it's like a
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  Speaker 3: seven eleven, except more sheets.
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  Speaker 4: We have sheets, right, it's at.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, it's more related to a shop. Yeah, it's more.
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  Speaker 3: It's like a sheet, except better. So there's two different
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  Speaker 3: types of wah wahs. They're the old wah wahs were
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  Speaker 3: little right there, small so there's no gas station attached
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  Speaker 3: to that. And then now there's the big wah wahs
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  Speaker 3: and there they have gas stations and they're giant, you know.
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  Speaker 3: And since the evolution from the small to the big
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  Speaker 3: they've they have, the food quality has diminished incredibly.
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  Speaker 4: It got worse.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it got worse, Yeah, got worse. The more money
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  Speaker 3: they make, the worser food gets. And what happened was
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  Speaker 3: and I'll tell you what happened here. Uh, it's when
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  Speaker 3: they started making their own roles. That was a downfall.
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  Speaker 3: I think that was the worst thing they could have done.
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  Speaker 4: Well.
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  Speaker 3: And you can't buy deli meat there anymore.
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  Speaker 4: Even though from a gas station.
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  Speaker 3: From from wah wah gas stations. Wawas evolved into gas stations,
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  Speaker 3: but originally they were just delis.
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  Speaker 4: Oh oh, they're like food markets, right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like you could go in and get you
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  Speaker 3: could get rolls, you can get deli meat, you could
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  Speaker 3: get chips. You know, you can get a soda.
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  Speaker 4: This makes way more sense now, Okay.
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  Speaker 3: They evolved and they started having griddles and and they
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  Speaker 3: would make like chicken sandwiches. And then at some point
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  Speaker 3: they started doing super wah wahs they were called, and
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  Speaker 3: it was like a gas station attached to a wah wah.
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  Speaker 3: And at some point in this evolutionary progress, they they
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  Speaker 3: they started making their own roles instead of getting what
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  Speaker 3: I believe was Lyssio's roles, which is a New Jersey
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  Speaker 3: role manufacturer, and it all went downhill from there. Now
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  Speaker 3: they have pizza and cheeseburgers and yeah, it's a gas station.
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  Speaker 4: So at what level does a wah wah evolve into
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  Speaker 4: a super wah wah.
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  Speaker 3: It's usually when I don't know at some point they
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  Speaker 3: just started. There's only a few small wa wahs left.
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  Speaker 3: And fun fact, the wah wah that I frequent right
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  Speaker 3: near our apartment is the one thousandth wa It actually
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  Speaker 3: says it on the tie says the one thousandth store.
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  Speaker 3: So now people on a simple Google search will know
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  Speaker 3: an approximate five mile radius.
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  Speaker 4: Of where I live. Man, I got a crash course
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  Speaker 4: in Wawas.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you're missing out by not have I not so
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  Speaker 3: much anymore? You? Yeah, it's all right, sorry man. And
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  Speaker 3: here's the thing, right, I went to a wah wah
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  Speaker 3: the other day, No, not the other day, I lie,
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  Speaker 3: I went before I went on vacation. I went to
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  Speaker 3: wah wah and it was a wah wah near my job.
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  Speaker 3: And it's a little wah wah, no gas station. I
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  Speaker 3: go in, I grab two hot dogs. Now, normally I
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  Speaker 3: know this is intriguing podcast content.
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  Speaker 4: Normally it has to do with hot dogs and barbecues.
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  Speaker 4: So we're good.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So they normally have the two bottom shelves of
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  Speaker 3: the heater, the heating container that they're in is regular
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  Speaker 3: size hot dogs, and then the top two shelves are
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  Speaker 3: reserved for like the quarter pound hot dogs. So I
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  Speaker 3: normally don't even look at the top two shelves because
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  Speaker 3: I'm not eating that. I want a regular two regular
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  Speaker 3: hot dogs.
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  Speaker 4: A quarter pound hot dog? Yeah, so how big is that?
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  Speaker 3: That's a quarter pound?
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  Speaker 4: I know, but.
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  Speaker 3: Too much, man, So I grabbed two regular hot dogs right,
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  Speaker 3: and then I got like I think I got like
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  Speaker 3: a Coke zero cherry float flavor.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: And I go up to the register and the very
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  Speaker 3: nice woman rings me out and she goes, hey, I
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  Speaker 3: have to ask all of the customers who are buying
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  Speaker 3: hot dogs like a survey. You know, we're a test
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  Speaker 3: store and we're no longer gonna be selling the quarter
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  Speaker 3: pound hot dogs? Are you upset about that? And my
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  Speaker 3: reply was never in my life have I ever or
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  Speaker 3: will I ever purchase a one quarter pound hot dog?
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  Speaker 3: And she went okay, perfect answer, and I just went
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  Speaker 3: about my day.
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  Speaker 4: Well, just for reference, I've pulled up what a quarter
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  Speaker 4: pound hot dog looks like, and the hot dog itself
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  Speaker 4: is bigger than the button.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I'm hold on, let's say quarter pound
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  Speaker 3: hot dog. Look it up from wah wahka like at
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  Speaker 3: wa wah at the end of your Google search. Uh yeah,
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  Speaker 3: quarter pound hot dog three hundred and ninety calories.
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  Speaker 4: It looks like the size of like a sandwich.
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  Speaker 3: So it's really not. That's like a stand So okay.
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  Speaker 3: Look if you look up quarter pound hot dog wa
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  Speaker 3: wah and you go to images, the fourth image on
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  Speaker 3: the right is the heating container.
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  Speaker 4: Wait, hold on, they make meatball subs.
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  Speaker 3: Dude, it's a whole It's a whole thing.
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  Speaker 4: It's a whole I might just have to come to
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  Speaker 4: Jerseys just for the meatball sub Wow.
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  Speaker 3: Like, listen, man, if you come to why if you
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  Speaker 3: come to Jersey and hang out with me and my wife,
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  Speaker 3: I will take you to Wawa. It's like, honestly, I
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  Speaker 3: feel like as a New Jersey native, I have no choice,
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  Speaker 3: Like when you when you come, I have to take
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  Speaker 3: you to woah. There's no choice. It's like it's like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, when you go to a pharmacy, you have
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  Speaker 3: to walk through the whole store to get to the pharmacy.
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  Speaker 3: M h, when you come to New Jersey you have
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  Speaker 3: to go to a wah wah in order to leave again.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, So We're gonna go to wah Wah and then
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  Speaker 4: how close the Seaside heights to where you live?
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  Speaker 3: I'll have to ask my wife. Probably is that where
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  Speaker 3: Jersey Shore was filmed?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah? Is that what I do? I do? And I
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  Speaker 4: will get one of the quarter pound hot dogs from
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  Speaker 4: wah Wah's and I will take you there.
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  Speaker 3: It's fifty three miles, it's an hour an hour and
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  Speaker 3: twenty minutes away.
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  Speaker 4: It's reasonable, right I. Okay, we'll pack, We'll pack a
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  Speaker 4: couple of the quarter pound hot dogs to go.
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  Speaker 3: We have to be careful because we're table in this
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  Speaker 3: spit and apparently Wabah is testing getting rid of the
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  Speaker 3: quarter pound hot dogs. So we have to find a
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  Speaker 3: wah Wah that still is selling quarter pound hot dogs,
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  Speaker 3: and if you meet four of them on the trip,
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  Speaker 3: you could have a pound of hot before you get
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  Speaker 3: the Seaside.
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna have to use the bathroom too.
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  Speaker 3: Well used the one at the Jersey shorehouse.
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  Speaker 4: That that thing has been through it.
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  Speaker 3: So we are ten and a half minutes of this
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  Speaker 3: episode and we still haven't even mentioned what movie we're
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  Speaker 3: talking about.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, here I got the perfect segue. Okay, do you
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  Speaker 4: think that Uncle Sam would appreciate Ahahwa's hot dog or
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  Speaker 4: a different type of barbecue item food. I guess. I think.
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  Speaker 3: I think without Uncle Sam we wouldn't have hot dogs.
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  Speaker 4: What were they cooking? Like ribs? The smoker probably like.
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  Speaker 3: Yo, yeah she was, and then she had to like
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  Speaker 3: really chop them, which was bothersome to me that she
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  Speaker 3: had to cut them.
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  Speaker 4: I've never seen him cook that way. I mean not,
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  Speaker 4: I mean once they were taken out or whatever, like
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  Speaker 4: the way she was breaking them up.
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  Speaker 3: What's your Fourth of July food? Like? What do you
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  Speaker 3: are you like a like? Are you are you like
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  Speaker 3: when you go to a function? Are you like a
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  Speaker 3: finger like chips and sausa tarcuterie board or you like
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna.
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  Speaker 4: Wait for the charcoity board. Yes, I like Italian sausage.
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  Speaker 4: I like smash burgers.
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  Speaker 3: Smash Burgers.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that those are like the two that
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  Speaker 4: come to mind.
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  Speaker 3: Smash Burgers are the best burger oh by far, like variant,
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  Speaker 3: you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 4: I like them with So I'll cook them and you
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  Speaker 4: know whatever, you know, cheese obviously, onions, and then I
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  Speaker 4: like to put out I'll cook up some hob and
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  Speaker 4: arrow peppers put it on top. Man, I say, I
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  Speaker 4: like stuff spicy. So when I'm man in the grill,
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  Speaker 4: that's the move. But if I go somewhere more often,
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  Speaker 4: they're not there gonna have something like that.
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  Speaker 3: So so you're not like a five guys guy. These
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  Speaker 3: are not smash burgers.
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  Speaker 4: No, those are messy burgers. Man. It's like too much.
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  Speaker 4: It depends at least my my one and only experience
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  Speaker 4: I've had, I felt like it was like overkill.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you have to go to five guys at least
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  Speaker 3: five times to get the full experience. But the problem
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  Speaker 3: with five guys is it's like thirty dollars by the
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  Speaker 3: time you get everything.
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  Speaker 4: That's what I'm saying. I always remember I don't know
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  Speaker 4: if it was there, but I remember, like I think
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  Speaker 4: it was there because they got it to go and
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  Speaker 4: the bag was like all oily.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's because they put the fries in the bag,
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  Speaker 3: which is like the they it's it's so strange. They
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  Speaker 3: cook the fries and then they put it in a
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  Speaker 3: cup and then the cup goes in your bag and
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  Speaker 3: then they take another scoop of fries and just throw
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  Speaker 3: it in your bag.
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  Speaker 4: So what's your go to barbecue food or like like
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  Speaker 4: a hot dog.
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  Speaker 3: You know, my problem with burgers is like, don't.
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  Speaker 4: What is it about the hot dogs? Or oh wait,
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  Speaker 4: let me backtrack. How do you how do you? Uh?
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  Speaker 4: How do you like? What condiments do you like? I
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  Speaker 4: can't even talk. Just ketch up, that's it, just ketch up.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I'm not making a like a like a city
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  Speaker 3: dog here, I'm just just gon ketchup and a couple
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  Speaker 3: of hot dogs. Here's my problem with burgers, man, I
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  Speaker 3: don't like the frozen burgers that people buy. Hell no
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  Speaker 3: from shop, like when you go to a supermark. I
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  Speaker 3: don't like those.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely not. That's not how you that's how you do it.
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  Speaker 3: That's what most people make. Now.
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  Speaker 4: If you absolutely not, I'll leave.
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  Speaker 3: Like if you told me, like, hey, I bought this
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  Speaker 3: eighty twenty ground brief and I smash it up and
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  Speaker 3: I put a little cheese in it, and you know
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  Speaker 3: I mean all that Like that's great. I will eat that.
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  Speaker 3: But I prefer my burger off of a flat top
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  Speaker 3: rather than a traditional grill yep, because you can make
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  Speaker 3: smash burgers with them.
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  Speaker 4: I had a smash burger a couple of weeks ago.
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  Speaker 4: I'm still thinking about it. So if that tells you
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  Speaker 4: the lasting impact that these burgers can have.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Well if you want, now that we're almost
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  Speaker 3: fifteen minutes in, do you want to mention what movie
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  Speaker 3: we're here to talk?
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  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, speaking of smash burgers, and this is a
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  Speaker 4: different type of smashing, but we are going to be
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  Speaker 4: talking about none other than William Lustigg's Uncle Sam that
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  Speaker 4: came out in nineteen ninety six. This is a in
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  Speaker 4: my mind, this will always be a video store staple.
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  Speaker 4: And we both covered the four K release from Blue
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  Speaker 4: Underground and I love this movie. I have a lot
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  Speaker 4: of fun with it every time that I've had a
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  Speaker 4: chance to revisit it, and it felt like the most
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  Speaker 4: appropriate movie we could pick for this time of year.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. The couple couple of fun things I learned about
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  Speaker 3: this movie. One, it's written by Larry Cohen. So, what's
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  Speaker 3: your favorite Larry Cohen movie?
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  Speaker 4: I like, I like the stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's mo Money.
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  Speaker 4: It's probably probably one of my favorites. What about for you?
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  Speaker 3: Uh, it's a live well, it's a it's a live trilogy.
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  Speaker 3: But I definitely have a soft spot for Q the
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  Speaker 3: Wing Serpent. Another thing I learned the movie was edited
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  Speaker 3: by Bob Morowski, owner of Grindhouse Releasing and editor to
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: Sam Raimi has edited I think every Sam Raimi movie.
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  Speaker 4: Actually, that's incredible.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so there's some there's some cool talent behind this man.
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  Speaker 3: This was one that I didn't saw this in a
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  Speaker 3: video store all the time. Uh. I think my interest
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  Speaker 3: in Bill lustig really kind of like Maniac and Maniac copt.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, his his obviously the most triumphant part
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  Speaker 3: of his career and for the most part, like I
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  Speaker 3: really associate him mostly with the formation of Blue Underground
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  Speaker 3: and their restoration efforts totally and all that stuff, And
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  Speaker 3: forgot up until the other night when we decided to
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  Speaker 3: cover this that this was a build Lusting movie, because
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  Speaker 3: if I'm being frank, it doesn't feel like a Bill
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  Speaker 3: Lusting movie.
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  Speaker 4: No, it. I think this film has, like you had mentioned,
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  Speaker 4: it has signature traits of his, but I don't feel
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  Speaker 4: like through and through it's as slazy of a movie
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  Speaker 4: compared to something like Maniac or even Maniac Cop or
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  Speaker 4: any of the sequels for that matter. Yeah, this, I think,
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  Speaker 4: kind of going back to what we were talking about earlier,
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  Speaker 4: I think that this is a little bit more tame
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  Speaker 4: and less sleazy. I would say overalls a slasher.
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  Speaker 3: Do you think that's a nineties thing? I mean this
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  Speaker 3: comes out the same year's Scream, you know, do you
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: think that was just horror culture wasn't as into that anymore?
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: Or do you think this was like a for higher job?
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: Like what do you think happened here?
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: I mean, I feel like when this film was coming out,
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: I mean this would have been I feel like in
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: a transition for horror around this time. I felt like
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: nineties horror was there's like certain moments I feel like
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: it's finding its footing. You know, you get films I
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: think are more notable, notable like Candy Man, Army of Darkness.
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: You know, I'm trying to think, what are what are
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: a few others I feel like came out early nineties.
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: I feel like there's something I'm forgetting.
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: The Cemetery Man, Yep, there's a lot popcorn. I mean
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: you also had like Bordella of Blood spinning off of
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: Tales from the Crypt.
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: You had demon Misery, Dead Alive.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: Sounds of the Lamps that come out in ninety one
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: that really just kind of uprought it, like kind of
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: split hairs about what is a horror what is thriller?
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: And you got a lot of spin offs of of that,
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: Like there was a lot happening before nineteen ninety six, I.
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: Think Child's Play two. Yeah, But I feel like before
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: you know you had you had some more notable films.
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: I feel like that this is just kind of lost
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: in the shuffle of like when we're starting to change
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: directions when it comes to horror. Nonetheless, I feel like
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: it's a it's a solid, underrated ninety slasher that I
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: feel like, you know, it's It's definitely a film that
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: I always enjoy going back to No.
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah. And it's interesting because Larry Cohen also wrote the
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: Mania Cop trilogy, so Bill Lustig worked with Cohen for that,
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: and Larry Cohen had approached him with the concept title
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: and actually the poster art for Uncle Sam that he
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: was going to bring to investors, and he was the
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: one who was like, oh, hey, we should go work
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: with Blustig. And it's interesting because their work on Mania
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: Cop Maniac Cop actually helped get a higher budget for
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: Uncle Sam. They had a shooting budget of two million
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: dollars that was significantly higher than they had before. Where
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: Larry Cohen was getting offered before Lustig became involved. So
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: it's an interesting one. Man. It's one that I like.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: It's it's it definitely falls in the territory of like
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: I could watch it once a year around four July
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: and then forget it exists for a year. It does.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: It's a movie that takes a while to get going.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: It really like the first half of this movie really
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: drags except for stilts Man and then that's that's a highlight.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: But yeah, one that I don't I don't love this movie,
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: but when it becomes a slasher movie in the second half,
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: I really having a lot of a lot of fun
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: with it.
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: Man.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: And there's some real like goofy shit in this movie
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: that's pretty like I have never in my life thought
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: if there was a killer running around, I'm gonna run
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: into town and grab a cannon to blow this sucker
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: away with.
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: I thought. The angle to this film that I think
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: is just so so strange is the connection that Uncle
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: Sam has with Barry the Blind Boy.
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: Mm hmm. Yeah.
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: I didn't really ever understand that, like what was up
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: with that. It kind of reminded me a little bit
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: of like Halloween, five.
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah. And what's so funny to me is that there's
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: a there's a there's a scene in this movie where Jed,
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: who is a sergeant that knows his uncle Jodey's uncle Sam,
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: where he goes into town to fetch this cannon that
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: they had for the Fourth of July festivity, say he's
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: gonna use to kill Uncle Sam with, essentially, and he
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: pulls back up to the house. He literally rolls up
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: to the house and the kid in a wheelchair, which
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: what is his name is it? I can't find him.
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: In Barry Is it Barry, the one that's blind?
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, wheelchair.
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: Hey, he's got he's got a mental link with Uncle Sam.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: And he's just he's just the truck pulls up with
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: the can and he's just sitting there on the sidewalk
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: by himself, staring off into nothing because he's blind. And
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: my first thought was like, who, where is anybody taking
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: care of this kid?
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: Where?
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: And then he yells, he yells to the in the
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: house to Jodie. He goes, we're here at I think
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: he was there the whole time. I think he was
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: just left there. Well.
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: And the other thing was is like Barry has all
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: the scars like it didn't his parents kind of allude
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: to that he got into some trouble, right, yeah.
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: I think it was like a I think they were
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: trying to loud. It was like a fireworks accident or
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: something like that. Is that what it was.
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: I don't know that's what they about.
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: It's very Let's see. I'm gonna do some uh some
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: some searching here. Let's see if I if I google
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: this is this is basically how the show is built. Here,
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: if I google something, it says, uh oh yeah, see this.
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: It says the character Berry is blind and scarred with
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: burns because he was a victim of a severe fireworks accident.
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: Well keep that in mind when you're out there shooting
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: off fireworks.
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: And then, for unexplained supernatural reasons, Barry develops a psychic
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: link with Sam Harper.
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: Okay, So it wasn't just me that I was confused
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: on what the connection was. I have to say the
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: beginning of this film, there was something about it that
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: kind of reminded me of the guests, just with that
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: weird military connection, and you know, you have you have
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: basically like a soldier coming back and you know they're
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: like unstoppable in a lot of ways, or at least
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: they seem to be.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: Well, it's silly because the beginning of the movie has
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: two soldiers coming up upon a helicopter crash site that
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: I guess, according to the dialogue was Barry. Nobody knew
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: it was out there, and the guy who found the
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: site says to to the sergeant. He says, the bodies
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: are burnt to a crisp, not recognizable, So the sergeant
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: sends his guy in there and goes, oh, can you
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: fetch the dog tag? So we know who this who
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: these people are. And our main character, Sam Harper, who's
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: our main antagonist, has barely any burns on his face
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: and is easily recognizable in the driver's seat of the helicopter,
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: which also makes no sense because his nephew, Jody, are
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: primary character in this movie, said that his uncle was
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: a gunner, but he was in the pilot's seat. I
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: don't know what's happening, I.
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: I What does he say, don't be afraid it's only
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: friendly fire?
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, friendly yeah, only because it happens in war. The
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: teacher said, it's a tragedy.
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: Well, okay, So here's my thing is I feel like
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: Jody who's choosing to idolize kind of a strange choice.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: Obsession.
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like, what's up with that? Man?
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: I couldn't figure out for the life of me what
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: this movie was trying to be because we try not
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: to look too into it. Obviously, I don't think there's
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: a lot here to dissect or like analyze in that way.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: But I couldn't figure out if the movie was like
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: pro patriotism or satirizing it.
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: I I was wondering the same thing because initially, you know,
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: obviously Jody's very pro patriotism, and then we get to
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: a certain point where was Sergeant Crowley. Uh yeah, so
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: he's basically as soon as Jody starts bringing up how
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: much he appreciates his uncle and how he idolizes him
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: and wants to be in the military, he basically shoots
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: it down at me. Immediately, I'm like, okay, so we're
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: not We're not for the military. I'm just kind of
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: confused that the message that we're trying to get across here.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, because he comes out, he him and Jed go
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: outside so Jody can see Jed's fake leg that he
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: lost in battle, and Jody says to him, I'm I'm
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: I don't know if I should go into the Air
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: Force or into the army or into the Marines. And
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: Jed gets really angry and goes on a tyrant about
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: how our tyree, about how they used to know what
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: they were fighting for and now they don't, and if
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: he's gonna get involved in that mess, why would he
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: do that? And his uncle Sam comes up, Sam Harper,
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: and Jed talks about how he kind of accidentally influenced Sam.
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: He didn't mean to, but somehow he influenced him. And
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: over the course of the movie, we learned that that
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: that Sam was more of a way, more of a
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: piece of shit than oh that ever gave on.
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: That's an understatement because once Jody has a conversation with
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: his mom and aunt.
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we find out I was actually abusive.
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah, And I was like I remember the first time
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: watching this. I mean it was years ago, but I
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: remember even being like aware enough to understand like, oh wow,
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: this is like really going to some dark places.
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: That's the lot to me. I know Cohen wrote this,
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: but that's what feels the most lustic here. Yeah, because
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: the grimy kind of side of it.
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: Oh, it was Jody's right. It was Jody's mom who
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: had been basically abused since she was what six something
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: like that. Yeah, and then she says, not that not
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: that this is funny, it's just the way that it's
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: presented is that how did how did the mom put
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: it that She's like, was glad when he got married
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: because she was no longer the only victim, and then
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: she felt bad about it afterwards. I was like, so
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: you didn't say anything then, like you were just kind
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: of whatever about it. I don't know. It's very strange.
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and this movie is very just like the whole
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: character of Uncle Sam, which we should just say for people.
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: He gets so his body is found along with the
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: bodies of everybody else into helicopter crash, and he is
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: sent home for there to be a proper funeral for him,
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: and he basically wakes up due to this anti patriotism.
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: So he's running a flag in the graveyard that he's
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: gonna be buried in, and he collects his metals that Jody,
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: his nephew, is holding on to, and he goes on
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: a killing streak and kills anybody who is not patriotic
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: or who anybody who is being some sort of way
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: towards our country. He goes to the killing Streak for
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: he like, there's you have like these weird mini like
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: exposition dumps to kind of tell you how bad of
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: a person he is and why we should fear him.
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: Once he gets up and out of the coffin, which
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: is like forty five minutes into this movie.
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: It takes a little bit time to get there.
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: It feels so strange because the very beginning of the movie,
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: after we see the incident in the desert, the first
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: introduction of Jody, his uncle Sam isn't a There's a
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: photo of his uncle Sam next to his bed. He
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: knocks it off, it breaks, and then the kid is
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: stupid enough to get out of bed and cuts his
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: foot on the glass from the picture that just fell
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: off his end table and broke on his floor. So
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: he goes into his mom.
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: Was he bleeding? At this point, I'm thinking, like, is
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: this guy dragon blood all over the house. Yeah.
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: So his mom is like, you're okay, you just need
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: some antiseptic and a band aid, and then she begins
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: to like talk about how like already She's like, oh, yeah,
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: you know, your uncle Sam was not you know not great,
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: And I'm like, okay, so this is just how we're
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: going to get all this information. The whole movie is
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: through these dumps of what happened before, because we have
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: no other way, Like, why should we fear this guy
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: other than he's dead and he's up walking around and
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: killing people. You have to establish how shitty he really
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: was when he was alive.
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: Not someone you want to idolize, exactly.
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and Jody, like, there's a whole sequence where Jody
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: brings this which is so weird. He brings the metals.
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: So after his body is found and confirmed that he died,
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: he brings the metals, which is in an AMMO container,
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: to school and tells his teacher about his uncle and
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: how he was found dead and he has the medals,
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: and the teacher goes and lets him do like a
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: show and tell presentation until he calls him a whimp
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: for being a draft dodger.
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: No, and yeah, I was like damn yeah.
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: So this whole time, I'm like, this is so cool
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: for this teacher, this social social studies history teacher to
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: do this. And then the teacher's like, okay, open your
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: open your math books. We're gonna go to pay So
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: he was doing this all in math class. This wasn't
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: even like a story teacher.
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was kind of a strange choice. So I
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: was like, so this, like where did this come? Like?
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: How did this come up?
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: Also? Was I the only one that was also very
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: confused and couldn't tell the difference between the mom and
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: his sister.
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: I was just as confused.
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: I still don't know who was who. In some scenes,
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: I don't know, they look exactly the same, which I
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: good on casting, but also the zero distinction.
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean yeah, I think like if you're if
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: you're trying to get actresses that at least have some
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: sort of a resemblance for the sake of being his sisters.
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: It was effective, but I feel like there were moments
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: where it got really confusing, like who was who?
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: There's one point where the same they're in the same
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: room and I lost track of who was talking to.
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: Oh is that where the uh? Because I know the
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: scene where they were. They were going back and forth
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: and they were explaining what Uncle Sam had done. Yeah,
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: and they're very hesitant to talk about it, and they're like,
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: he's not ready for this conversation. I was like, I
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: think you need to tell this kid what's up, because
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: he is he's like on the fast track to becoming
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: like a Columbine killer over here.
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, his obsession with his uncle is is very,
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: very worrisome. And it's one of those things where I
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: don't want to talk about this movie in a political
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: sense because there's so obviously like divide there, but this
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: is kind of a it feels like even when we
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: were young, Like I don't know how old you were
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: when you were first exposed to like Junior Rotc in
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: high school, if you had that, but I remember, like
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: seventh eighth grade being exposed to Junior Rotc, who was
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: like prepping people to eventually one day go into active
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: military and go into training, and it it always feels
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: like something that's that's beginning the conversation very young. It's
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: like when military recruiters would go to high school graduations
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: because they're desperate to get people to sign up for
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: the military, and they sell you this dream of you know,
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: serving your country and you know all the benefits that
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: you're going to get. And over the years, I feel
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: like the promise of those things has changed so much,
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: but for our generation, we were still young being fed
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: this thing, almost like you're being groomed for it, you
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: know what I mean, and then one day you have
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: to make a decision on if you're going to go
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: through it or not. So it's interesting the effect that
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: that has on somebody young whose idol is also you know,
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: somebody in the military who is a total just piece
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: of shit, worthless human being.
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's uh it we find this out very quickly.
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: He's not a great guy, and I mean his wasn't
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: at one point. I don't remember if if it was
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: his wife or his Yeah, yeah, his sister, I can't
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: remember which one who had said that they were dreading
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: the fact like they were bringing the remains back home.
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: I was like, oh, it's very bad that if that case.
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: They bring the remains home and it's in the sisters
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: it's in Jodie's mom's house, to Jodie's house and they're
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: there overnight, and Jody's mom's piece of shit boyfriend thing,
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: the lawyer guy is like trying to turn her on,
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: and her dead brother's casket is like in the living
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: room in front of them with an American flag draped
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: over it. It's it's very odd.
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: It's he's got like a weird kink or something. I
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: don't know.
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, right, it's funny because when she says, when she
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: says to him, like, not tonight, you know, my brother,
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: there's a dead body in the house, He like looks
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: at the body. He looks at the coffin and scoffs,
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: and I'm like, oh, you're you suck dude, You're But
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: he when he does come to life, he kills wearing
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: this Uncle Sam costume that's that somebody wears to.
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: Be at the parade.
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: And I have to talk about this scene because it's
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: one of my favorite scenes in this whole movie, because
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: it's great comedy.
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: This might be the best scene of the whole film.
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: It probably is. It probably is. He We we get
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: these like POV shots from outside of a window, somebody
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: like peeping tom into a girl's room as she's getting changed,
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: like after a shower. Yeah, and we don't get any establishment.
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: There's no establishment of where we are in this random house,
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: of who this person is. We don't know, so we
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: assume it's like the ground floor because we see somebody
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: in an Uncle Sam costume peering in at her from outside.
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: So in my brain, I was like Okay, this is
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: obviously like a first floor. Her window is open. It's
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: really creepy that this guy is doing this.
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: Wait, did you think that this first watch? Did you
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: think this was Uncle Sam the killer at this point?
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: Only because I remember her first watch? I thought it was.
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: Only because I knew he gets this costume eventually, because
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: of the marketing. That was the only reason why at first,
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: And then I realized that this is actually the scene
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: leading up to him getting the costume. But we see
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: these shots and she's getting changed and the camera she
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: she notices he's there. She screams, he yells, and then
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: we cut to a wide shot outside of the house
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: and it's revealed that this Uncle Sam character is on
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: stilts looking at her through the second floor window, and
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: it is the greatest cut to outside and the he's
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: not wearing normal stilts. These are very long stilts.
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: Okay, here's my thing. One. It's a certain level of
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: commitment for somebody to go through all this effort just
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: to catch a glimpse. There's no guarantees he's getting anything
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: out of this, and he.
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: Can't run away at normal human speed. The man is
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: on two floor worth, two floors worth of stilts.
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: I'm thinking myself, like, how did he get there to
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: begin with?
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: Just walking by, and he's not even it wasn't even
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: the parade yet, he was just practicing in full costume,
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: I guess outside.
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: And then he tries to make a clean getaway. I'm
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: thinking to myself, like, this is not this is even feasible.
• 40:56
  Speaker 4: You're like going through a park, you miss step man,
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: You're like, you're fuck.
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: It's very it's very odd. It's just like I laughed.
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: It was this morning when I was finishing the movie,
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: and that was the scene that I left up on
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: and I laughed so goddamn heart in my living room
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: at that cut of just because I'm not expecting a
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: man to be It's ridiculous, it's insane. It's really just genuine,
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: the great, great humor, and probably, like you said, probably
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: the best scene of the whole inside.
• 41:30
  Speaker 4: Now as far as I mean, obviously, you know, we
• 41:33
  Speaker 4: know ultimately how Uncle Sam gets the costume. Did you
• 41:41
  Speaker 4: have any favorite like standout kills from the movie.
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I actually thought the death of the the boyfriend,
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: so Jodie's mom's boyfriend, the lawyer being strung up on
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: the fireworks display. Oh, Yeah, was like exceptionally grotesque for
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: this movie, not in it's not really like a violent
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: death because we don't really see much, but it's just
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: so heinous what he goes through with the fire and
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: the fireworks being embedded in his chest and the sparks
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: shooting back on him into what eventually ends in an explosion.
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: It just felt it felt much more, much more brutal
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: than the beheading and the stabbing, you know what I mean.
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: It felt like it came from a bit of a
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: different nature than the rest of the movie.
• 42:43
  Speaker 4: For sure. I'd have to say, I mean, the the
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: flag kill is pretty well.
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: The flag kill, Yeah, well, because the sheriff is trying
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: to save the boyfriend up getting the fireworks on and
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: blows up and he rolls down the hill and Uncle
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: Sam picks up the flagpole and catches him on it.
• 43:06
  Speaker 4: Bring Hurley.
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: It's also to the beheading is very funny because he's
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: killing people who are very disrespectful to the flag or
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: to our celebration of Fourth of July, or anybody who's
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: anti patriotic, and he cuts this poor kid's head off
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: because I guess the kid agreed to sing the national
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: anthem and he goes on stage and can't sing at all,
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: so he just trolls this town wide Fourth of July. Yeah,
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: and then Uncle Sam cuts his head off.
• 43:39
  Speaker 4: He felt slighted, very.
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: Extreme, very extreme, and like, I love the commitment, which
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: is something very heavily I think inspired by Jaws, which
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: is like the mayor who, despite there being a death
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: at the fire finding bodies at the Fourth of July festival,
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: is like, no, this is what the people want. We
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: got to keep going. And then it just people continue
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: to die anyway, which is very much the Jaws.
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: And it feels like someone in a position of authority
• 44:18
  Speaker 4: is very disillusioned to like the scope of what exactly
• 44:22
  Speaker 4: is going on. But I agree, I mean there were
• 44:25
  Speaker 4: definitely shades of that. It's, uh, what I appreciate about
• 44:30
  Speaker 4: this movie is it definitely commits to the let's say,
• 44:34
  Speaker 4: the patriotic styles of kills that you get in the movie.
• 44:40
  Speaker 4: It's by no means I think a perfect slasher by
• 44:44
  Speaker 4: all accounts, but it's fun, like all the kills are entertaining,
• 44:50
  Speaker 4: you know.
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Well it becomes like the movie goes from nothing
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: to then all of this. I mean, this movie's not
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: even ninety minutes long. You have nothing for forty five minutes,
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: and then it just becomes back to back to back
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: to back to back kill very quickly until you get
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: to the ending. And I will say that the reveal
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: because we get glimpses of his face. You see pretty
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: much his whole face when he's in the coffin, but
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: then once he puts on the mask, he we don't
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: see him again until the ending of the movie when
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: he is in his ex wife or his wife's house,
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: and Jody confronts him in the house and I'm trying
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: to figure out exactly who I think it's. David Frolick
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: plays him, Yeah, Master Stargeant Sam Harper, who has a
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: great look. I love the makeup effects on him. They
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: look really good. It not as cool as like a
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: big Ben from House, but you know, still a cool look.
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: It very much reminds me of Maniac Cop.
• 46:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah, man, it's a definitely a distinct look. I feel
• 46:06
  Speaker 4: like that they go all in on like the grotesque
• 46:12
  Speaker 4: side of the effects for his character. Yeah man, this
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: just a just a fun movie.
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: Well, the ending of the movie, they decide to use
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: a cannon to kill him, and it's like Jody needs
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: to get him outside for them to shoot him with
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: this cannon. So he comes outside and Jet is out
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: there and Barry is out there, and Jet is like,
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: I'm not going to fire the cannon. Jody is with him,
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: and Barry's in the wheelchair like, don't worry, he'll move.
• 46:55
  Speaker 4: He knows.
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: They shoot the cannon and the kid has to run
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: away from the explosion.
• 47:01
  Speaker 5: The first explosion, it is probably the most extreme way
• 47:09
  Speaker 5: to try to kill somebody.
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: Oh my god, for sure.
• 47:13
  Speaker 4: Let alone in such a short amount of time. They're
• 47:15
  Speaker 4: basically trying to sound off two shots at the house
• 47:20
  Speaker 4: and to get Uncle Sam. So I gotta ask you,
• 47:27
  Speaker 4: Uncle Sam. You know, second shot gets launched right into
• 47:30
  Speaker 4: the house explosion or No, No, the first shot or
• 47:36
  Speaker 4: the first shot hits him, right, he goes in the
• 47:38
  Speaker 4: house exploded.
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: No, the first shot, like I think it lands in
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: front of him and it explodes. And then remember he
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: walks out on fire.
• 47:48
  Speaker 4: That's after the first shot, right.
• 47:49
  Speaker 3: No, that's the first shot, okay, and then the shot
• 47:53
  Speaker 3: shoots him into the house.
• 47:54
  Speaker 4: Okay. So when he's walking out on fire, who did
• 47:58
  Speaker 4: it better? Michael Myers and Halloween two or Uncle Sam?
• 48:02
  Speaker 4: And obviously Uncle Sam.
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: Uncle Sam. Well Bill, I mean, if we remember from
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: Maniac Cop, I think Bill Lustig is the champion director
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: of fire stunts in movies because Maniac Cop had the
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: longest fire stunt I think on film for a long time,
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: and then he upped it with Maniac Cop two in
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: the church scenes Mania Cop two, which I remember thinking
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: there has to be a fire stunt Maniac Cop two.
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: You have to one up the first one, and they
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: did for Maniac Cop two, so very very hono.
• 48:37
  Speaker 4: Maniac Cop two, I think is probably the best one.
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't like Badge of Silence.
• 48:44
  Speaker 4: I don't think it hits quite the same way. I
• 48:46
  Speaker 4: still enjoy it, but two's really good.
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and shoots him with the second canon and he
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: blows into the house and explodes, And I want to
• 48:58
  Speaker 3: know what the ending of this movie is alluding to.
• 49:01
  Speaker 4: He's going to bring this up where we see.
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: Jody burning everything that he owns that's like the military,
• 49:07
  Speaker 3: and then it cuts to the weirdest choppy slow motion
• 49:10
  Speaker 3: shot of Jody's face as if like he is now,
• 49:16
  Speaker 3: Like you could have told me that the end of
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: the movie was meant to be like he's now, you know,
• 49:23
  Speaker 3: obsessed with or he's been possessed by his uncle's spirit
• 49:27
  Speaker 3: and he's now going to become, you know, a killer.
• 49:31
  Speaker 4: I mean, is there any other way to interpret it?
• 49:35
  Speaker 4: I think that that's it. Kind of it was very like,
• 49:37
  Speaker 4: uh foulcy kind of soal ending to it. It's like
• 49:41
  Speaker 4: very weird, and I was like, Okay, this is not
• 49:44
  Speaker 4: really what I was expecting for where this this ending
• 49:47
  Speaker 4: was going to go.
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: Would you have liked it better if it was like
• 49:49
  Speaker 3: a Halloween four where like he turned around and murdered
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: his mom.
• 49:55
  Speaker 4: Oh be incredible.
• 49:56
  Speaker 3: He was covered in blood and then Jed ran around
• 49:58
  Speaker 3: the corner and went no, no, oh my god. And
• 50:03
  Speaker 3: then in Uncle Sam too. They don't continue that plot
• 50:07
  Speaker 3: line at all.
• 50:10
  Speaker 4: I could appreciate it. I mean, do you feel like
• 50:12
  Speaker 4: it was a missed opportunity? We never got a sequel
• 50:13
  Speaker 4: to this? I mean, it's not too late.
• 50:20
  Speaker 3: Do I want one? No?
• 50:23
  Speaker 4: It is the thirtieth anniversary, after all.
• 50:26
  Speaker 3: Do I kind of think you should? Could you imagine
• 50:28
  Speaker 3: this movie with current politics?
• 50:30
  Speaker 4: Oh? Boy, I don't. I don't know how. I don't
• 50:34
  Speaker 4: think it'll go over too well.
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: That would be extreme, absolutely extreme. Uh No, I think
• 50:40
  Speaker 3: this movie's fine as a one and done. You know,
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: it's we had we had to do this for staff picks,
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: because it's not a movie that kind of requires discussion,
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: you know.
• 50:55
  Speaker 4: And no, it's it's festive for the fourth of July.
• 51:00
  Speaker 3: It is, and I think movies like this are and
• 51:03
  Speaker 3: according to like the very minimal research I did, Lustig
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: really took this up as an opportunity to do a
• 51:08
  Speaker 3: festive holiday based horror movie. And it never really tries
• 51:16
  Speaker 3: to be more than that. It really just kind of
• 51:19
  Speaker 3: is what it is. There's not a lot to look
• 51:22
  Speaker 3: into at any deeper level. I do love though this,
• 51:28
  Speaker 3: Like once the killing begins and Uncle Sam is up,
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: it just keeps going, it doesn't stop.
• 51:37
  Speaker 4: I wish we would have gotten more of that earlier.
• 51:40
  Speaker 4: I think the pacing it would have it would have
• 51:42
  Speaker 4: kept us as the viewer a little bit more engaged.
• 51:46
  Speaker 4: I mean, overall, it's it's still it doesn't really change
• 51:51
  Speaker 4: my opinion of the film, but I think it would
• 51:53
  Speaker 4: enhance maybe the experience a little bit more.
• 51:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it just felt like, you know, it's it's one
• 51:58
  Speaker 3: of those movies where you kind of watch it and
• 52:00
  Speaker 3: then forget it and move on.
• 52:03
  Speaker 4: I think a lot of people next July.
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think people like you and I and people
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: in our space. Uh, you know, they're like to us.
• 52:12
  Speaker 3: It's part of the beloved William Lustig category. Oh yeah,
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: it's like, yes, this is the guy who did it,
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: and we appreciate it because it was William Lustig who
• 52:20
  Speaker 3: did it. But in all honestly, it's probably my least
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: favorite film of his.
• 52:27
  Speaker 4: It doesn't have like the signature, like standout moments that
• 52:37
  Speaker 4: you're so accustomed to getting and hit some of his
• 52:39
  Speaker 4: earlier films. It's I think it's, like I said, it's
• 52:42
  Speaker 4: a solid slasher, but I don't think it, you know,
• 52:45
  Speaker 4: comes close to the other films that he's done. Well,
• 52:48
  Speaker 4: he does.
• 52:49
  Speaker 3: Let's let's chat about him for a minute, because he does.
• 52:53
  Speaker 3: He was credited as Billy Bag for two adult films
• 52:56
  Speaker 3: in the late seventies. He did a movie called Hot
• 52:58
  Speaker 3: Honey and another one called The Violation of Claudia. And this,
• 53:03
  Speaker 3: like like a lot of directors in the late seventies,
• 53:06
  Speaker 3: porn was the entryway into directing. So he took the
• 53:11
  Speaker 3: same route and he goes and he does Maniac, which
• 53:15
  Speaker 3: is probably as extreme a film premiere you could do
• 53:22
  Speaker 3: possible If what anything I just said made any sense,
• 53:25
  Speaker 3: I don't even know if I was speaking English. There,
• 53:28
  Speaker 3: it's all the is. Yeah, he does Maniac and then
• 53:34
  Speaker 3: he goes on to does to do the Fred Williamson
• 53:36
  Speaker 3: vehicle Vigilante. Have you ever seen that?
• 53:39
  Speaker 4: I haven't.
• 53:41
  Speaker 3: I haven't either, or it's been a long time. Then
• 53:46
  Speaker 3: six years go by before Maniac Cop and he does.
• 53:51
  Speaker 3: He directs a movie called hit Lists. He directs another
• 53:53
  Speaker 3: movie in eighty nine called Relentless, neither of which I've seen,
• 53:58
  Speaker 3: and then nineteen ninety Cop two, nineteen ninety three, Mania
• 54:02
  Speaker 3: Cop three. He is credited in nineteen ninety five as
• 54:08
  Speaker 3: directing a Jeff Speakman movie called The Expert, but he
• 54:11
  Speaker 3: was actually replaced by Rick Avery, who is a stunt coordinator.
• 54:19
  Speaker 3: And then a year later he does Uncle Sam and
• 54:21
  Speaker 3: doesn't do anything until he produces the Alexander Aja Maniac remake.
• 54:27
  Speaker 3: And that's it.
• 54:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Basically after that point, I would have to assume
• 54:31
  Speaker 4: most of his time and effort went into the underground.
• 54:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah. And it's interesting because if you look at some
• 54:39
  Speaker 3: of his which I'm thankful for of course, Yeah, if
• 54:43
  Speaker 3: you look at some of his like he's expanded history.
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: He was an apprentice editor on Death Wish from nineteen
• 54:51
  Speaker 3: seventy four, which is incredible, and he's also a production
• 54:55
  Speaker 3: manager of of Inferno and Tenebrae from Daria Argento, So you.
• 55:03
  Speaker 4: Can definitely see where some of that influence comes from,
• 55:07
  Speaker 4: or maybe even the selections that he had on his
• 55:11
  Speaker 4: own label.
• 55:12
  Speaker 3: You know, are you a are you a Inglorious Bastards fan?
• 55:19
  Speaker 4: I am?
• 55:20
  Speaker 3: So. He was a production manager on a film called
• 55:22
  Speaker 3: The Squeeze from nineteen seventy eight, directed by Antonio Margat.
• 55:28
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that's right, I got yeah, yep, And so yeah,
• 55:34
  Speaker 3: this guy has had a hell of a run. You know,
• 55:37
  Speaker 3: he's been involved in a lot and now the owner
• 55:42
  Speaker 3: of the founder of Blue Underground, who, obviously for us
• 55:45
  Speaker 3: physical Media Collectors is a label that we hold very
• 55:48
  Speaker 3: dearly to our hearts, and it's it's it's interesting, man,
• 55:55
  Speaker 3: because I think guys like Bill Lustig, they're always going
• 55:59
  Speaker 3: to be remembered for Maniac and Maniac Cop and these
• 56:04
  Speaker 3: very grimy films that that definitely hold a longer impact
• 56:08
  Speaker 3: than I think Uncle Sam ever will, because if Uncle
• 56:12
  Speaker 3: Sam wasn't a fourth of July Slasher, I don't think
• 56:14
  Speaker 3: we'd be talking about it like this.
• 56:17
  Speaker 4: No, this, uh, this definitely feels like a video store staple.
• 56:20
  Speaker 4: I mean we were talking about earlier, and it feels
• 56:23
  Speaker 4: very much at home with like your fulla Moon movies, Carnosaur, Rumpel,
• 56:31
  Speaker 4: Stilt Skin, you know, films that were coming out like
• 56:33
  Speaker 4: roughly in that timeframe. So yeah, very fond memories. I
• 56:38
  Speaker 4: mean I always remember the lenticular cover for the VHS,
• 56:42
  Speaker 4: seeing that at the the video store. But yeah, man,
• 56:48
  Speaker 4: I mean it's definitely part of it. It always has
• 56:50
  Speaker 4: to be part of the lineup. I mean, you know,
• 56:51
  Speaker 4: you've got staples like Jaws, I know what you did
• 56:54
  Speaker 4: last summer, Return of the Living Dead, And I mean
• 56:59
  Speaker 4: I even throw into the mix, like, you know, films
• 57:01
  Speaker 4: like Katee Fear or Blowout, you know when yeah, fourth
• 57:05
  Speaker 4: of July rolls around. But this always deserves a spot
• 57:09
  Speaker 4: in that lineup. Yeah.
• 57:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And I love that we picked this first staff
• 57:13
  Speaker 3: picks because at least gets a conversation, oh yeah about
• 57:17
  Speaker 3: the movie, and you know, it's worth seeing. I don't
• 57:20
  Speaker 3: you know, I'm not one of those people that's like,
• 57:22
  Speaker 3: oh my god, you got to see Uncle Sam. But
• 57:25
  Speaker 3: it's you know, it's a fun slasher movie. We're pretty
• 57:28
  Speaker 3: used to watching things that are below a certain bar,
• 57:32
  Speaker 3: you know, and this is this kind of lives there
• 57:34
  Speaker 3: and it's it's grimy enough that you'll get your kicks
• 57:37
  Speaker 3: out of it, and it's definitely you know, there's there's
• 57:40
  Speaker 3: some pretty cool kills in here. And it feels a
• 57:44
  Speaker 3: movie that's really kind of trying to tackle like the
• 57:48
  Speaker 3: sensibilities of lustig, trying to go to the extreme in
• 57:51
  Speaker 3: some senses, but also kind of maybe some outside influencing. Hey,
• 57:56
  Speaker 3: we can't do that, we need to kind of keep
• 57:57
  Speaker 3: it here. So I just kind of feel like there's
• 58:01
  Speaker 3: a push in a pool there between that.
• 58:04
  Speaker 4: Sure.
• 58:05
  Speaker 3: I also don't think Larry Cohen is just the strongest
• 58:07
  Speaker 3: writer either.
• 58:08
  Speaker 4: I don't.
• 58:08
  Speaker 3: I'd never thought of him as a strong writer, So
• 58:11
  Speaker 3: maybe that's just me.
• 58:14
  Speaker 4: Do you have any other horror films or I guess
• 58:16
  Speaker 4: fourth or July films that you're planning to watch the
• 58:18
  Speaker 4: next couple of days.
• 58:20
  Speaker 3: We watch Independence Day, but I'll probably watch like I'll
• 58:25
  Speaker 3: probably watch well, Jaws always, we always watch Jaws. I'll
• 58:30
  Speaker 3: probably watch you know, I'm not the biggest fan of
• 58:33
  Speaker 3: I know what you did last summer. So if you
• 58:37
  Speaker 3: don't really watch that, maybe that'll really be it. I
• 58:40
  Speaker 3: don't know, no Return of Living Dead. I'll definitely sweeze
• 58:42
  Speaker 3: in it something.
• 58:43
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, you gotta say that for tomorrow.
• 58:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll sweeze that into you.
• 58:48
  Speaker 4: Now, do you watch I know you mentioned Jaws? Do
• 58:51
  Speaker 4: you watch just the first one? Or do you watch
• 58:54
  Speaker 4: that and all the sequels after just the first one? See,
• 58:59
  Speaker 4: I feel compelled every single time.
• 59:02
  Speaker 3: To watch all five, including Cruel Jaws.
• 59:07
  Speaker 4: In my heart, there are five Jaws films. I don't
• 59:13
  Speaker 4: think Steven Spielberg would be too fond of that comment.
• 59:16
  Speaker 3: But you know, yeah, that's really it for for Fourth
• 59:22
  Speaker 3: of July watches. I mean, there's really not a lot
• 59:28
  Speaker 3: else that comes to mind.
• 59:29
  Speaker 4: Top Gun you love for Top Gun?
• 59:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, yeah, of course, like I like Top Gun,
• 59:34
  Speaker 3: but I've never really throw it on around Fourth of July.
• 59:38
  Speaker 3: That's more of like an August movie for me.
• 59:40
  Speaker 4: Really, I don't know why.
• 59:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, mh, you're no.
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  Speaker 4: It always just feels like a very patriotic film.
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  Speaker 3: Doesn't Okay, what about like you're watching Good Morning Vietnam.
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  Speaker 4: It's been a long time since I watch that.
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  Speaker 3: I I watch actually every Fourth of July, I light
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  Speaker 3: a candle and I watch Saving Private Ryan. Hey, I
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  Speaker 3: love that movie, man, don't.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, that's okay, that's okay summertime. If if it ever
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  Speaker 4: comes out in four k I would love to see
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  Speaker 4: Caddy Shack. Oh it's a very summer esque movie.
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  Speaker 3: Hey good, Yeah, I keep you on, like that's a
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  Speaker 3: good pic. That's a good pick. I like one of
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  Speaker 3: my wife's favorite movies. I like one Crazy Summer.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think I've seen that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, John Cusack, bobcat gold Wait, a whole bunch of
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  Speaker 3: other people.
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  Speaker 4: I think we've got it pretty much covered. I mean
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  Speaker 4: those are usually the essentials that you have the Fourth
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  Speaker 4: of July.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, yeah, plus the hot you gotta have your
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  Speaker 3: hot dogs and uh, you know, you gotta have maybe
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  Speaker 3: a smash burger, maybe some maybe some chips and saw.
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  Speaker 4: Also what some watermelon? That sounds good?
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  Speaker 3: Watermelon?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, stay hydrated it it's one hundred it's like almost
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  Speaker 4: one hundred trees here. Man. Absolutely, Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: They raised Fourth of July for us from ninety three
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  Speaker 3: to one hundred and one over the last day. I'm like, yike,
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  Speaker 3: it's a little crazy man. Oh Man, Well from us
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  Speaker 3: to you, dear listener. We hope you have a great
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  Speaker 3: Fourth of July and we hope you enjoyed much like
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  Speaker 3: the Much like the quarter pound hot dog from wah
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 3: wah Uh, this episode also has a quarter pound worth
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  Speaker 3: of food discussion in it.
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  Speaker 4: Just be safe out there. Don't end up like Barry,
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  Speaker 4: blind and scarred from the fireworks.
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  Speaker 3: It's so funny to be I don't know why that's
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  Speaker 3: a stream, Dude, They weren't. He was not playing. He
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 3: was playing with like Joe dirt level fireworks.
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna have to use like his his pictures like
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  Speaker 4: my icon just just this time of year.
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  Speaker 3: That's messed up. Man. Well, hey, listen, people who want
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  Speaker 3: to hang out with you on Fourth of July and
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  Speaker 3: see what you're watching. Tell the people where they can
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  Speaker 3: find you. Know where you talk about that.
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  Speaker 4: You guys can find me after ours video. I am
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 4: all over social media. You can find me on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram,
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 4: you name it. What about you, Chris, I'm.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 3: Always a bearded film guy over on Instagram. That's really
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 3: about it, and always hear it beyond the blood. We uh,
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 3: let's see I need to shout out obviously our podcast
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 3: Networks that one's favorite productions. Ryan and Will our owners
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 3: always doing incredible work. But I do want to shout
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 3: out one show in particular that I've been listening to.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 3: They're one of the newer shows on the network, and
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 3: that is the Nightmare USA podcast. For those who might
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 3: not be familiar, Stephen Thrower wrote a book about eighteen
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 3: years ago called Nightmare USA and it's a history of
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 3: the exploitation genre in the US, ranging from the late
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 3: sixties to the mid eighties. And it's a very extensive,
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 3: very exhausting book about the exploitation genre. And a podcast
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 3: has recently popped up that's covering every single movie in
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 3: that book, and there's a lot, I know because I've
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 3: been trying to watch all of them over the last
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 3: couple of days. Absolutely just incredible. They did release their
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 3: first episode where they talked about nineteen seventy nine Don't
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 3: Go in the House.
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  Speaker 4: Love that movie.
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  Speaker 3: Great movie, great episode. I'll have a link to that
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 3: down below. Make sure you'll give them a listen. And
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 3: us we're doing something a little different, So this is
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 3: coming out on fourth of July. Two days later on Monday,
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 3: we have an after hours coming out because you and
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 3: I are going to be next deep in prep for
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 3: a commentary episode talking about you want to tell the
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 3: people what we're gonna be do.
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  Speaker 4: It's gonna be what would you say, something a little
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 4: bit more uh erotic, Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It's gonna be. Uh. You can get a little bit
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 3: of a little bit of Douglas, a little bit of Stone,
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 3: a little bit of Dennis Nederie, a little bit of
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 3: Wayne Knight. Get some. You're gonna get some, yeah, ice pick.
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  Speaker 4: I think that's all we need to say. That's like that,
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  Speaker 4: That's like the perfect perfect way to round it out.
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  Speaker 3: We'll leave it there. We'll leave it there. Uh. We
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  Speaker 3: hope you have a great Fourth of July. Thank you
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 3: was always for hanging out with us. We'll see you
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 3: guys on the next one.
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