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Crowing all Around the Block · Movie Meltdown

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  Speaker 1: Hey everybody, this is Anthony Michael Hall, and you're listening
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  Speaker 1: to my friends Brian J.
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  Speaker 2: And Misty on Movie Meltdown. Don't touch that dial.
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  Speaker 3: This episode is rated M for Misty. Yes, that's right,
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  Speaker 3: this is a Misty episode, so it will be laced
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  Speaker 3: with profanity even more than usual. If you're not comfortable
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  Speaker 3: with this level of profanity, perhaps this isn't the episode
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  Speaker 3: for you. But we have many other episodes to choose
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  Speaker 3: from that do not feature Misty, and will probably be
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  Speaker 3: far less offensive. Okay, maybe. With that having been said,
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  Speaker 3: on with the show.
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  Speaker 1: It's showtime.
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  Speaker 2: Our nuclear reactor pumping out one.
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  Speaker 4: Million kilowatts of power.
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  Speaker 1: Provide more cooling in the containment chamber.
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  Speaker 2: To your stations, we have a movie meltdown.
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  Speaker 5: Suddenly, I heard a tapping, as of someone gently rapping,
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  Speaker 5: rapping at my chamber door.
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  Speaker 6: What's up, and welcome to Movie Meltdown. I'm Brian.
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  Speaker 7: I'm Misty.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm Jay.
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  Speaker 6: And we're coming to you live via digital recording from
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  Speaker 6: the outskirts of Scarefest. Once again in sunny Lexington, Kentucky.
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  Speaker 6: This has been a couple weeks in a row in Lexington.
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  Speaker 6: They've done some pretty awesome stuff as of recent.
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  Speaker 7: And it is just a delightful day.
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  Speaker 6: It's very nice out.
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  Speaker 7: It's very nice. We've got the windows down.
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  Speaker 6: Hanging outside in the vicinity of the arena.
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  Speaker 7: This parking lot's not creepy and abandoned like last week's.
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  Speaker 6: A recent outing to another convention. Not near as creepy.
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  Speaker 6: Which is weird to see horror fans out in the daylight.
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  Speaker 6: Bright shininess and their black tee and black jeans and
• 2:15
  Speaker 6: lots of makeup this time around it's lots of uh
• 2:17
  Speaker 6: costumes not even like cosplay just people that kind of
• 2:20
  Speaker 6: want to like wear some makeup and.
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  Speaker 7: That's what's been throwing me off because it's like there's
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  Speaker 7: costumes for people because usually it's like you have a
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  Speaker 7: theme there if you if there's like a certain guest
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  Speaker 7: you'll have more like people dressed up as that like
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  Speaker 7: one of those that that guest's.
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  Speaker 6: Characters something tied to that guest I've seen.
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  Speaker 7: So many like Captain Spaulding's today.
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  Speaker 6: I was going to say, as we were walking back through,
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  Speaker 6: I was just like, I think I've seen more Captain
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  Speaker 6: Spaulding's today than maybe ever. And this is the one
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  Speaker 6: time he's not here.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's because every fat bald guy in the lower
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  Speaker 1: part of Kentucky can be Captain Spaulding.
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  Speaker 7: I saw a small child.
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  Speaker 6: So does that. Yeah, there was a kid.
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  Speaker 1: I think there was a girl.
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  Speaker 6: At some point.
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  Speaker 8: What?
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  Speaker 6: There's been lots of Captain Spaulding's today.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Well, maybe we're just in Captain Spaulding land.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe so.
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  Speaker 7: I was kind of afraid we'd see more people in
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  Speaker 7: their underwear.
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  Speaker 6: They're just like fried chicken.
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  Speaker 7: I figured we'd have some like, you know.
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  Speaker 6: Damn it, Janet's. Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 7: But no, I didn't see anybody.
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  Speaker 1: Thank God.
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  Speaker 6: You saw Brad's underwear. It was on display.
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  Speaker 7: He had several pairs. I got kids by my underwear.
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  Speaker 6: This would be Barry Boswick here as a guest displaying
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  Speaker 6: his underwear proudly at the table. Granted, they weren't on
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  Speaker 6: him or anything. It was in like a frame. You
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  Speaker 6: could buy some underwear.
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  Speaker 7: Had they been worn previously?
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  Speaker 6: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like.
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  Speaker 6: You know, it'd drive the price up a little bit.
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  Speaker 7: I think I spent my entire life thinking that there
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  Speaker 7: was a T in his name. And I was like,
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  Speaker 7: wait a minute. What do you mean it's not Bostwick?
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  Speaker 7: It's Bostwick. And I was like, what?
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  Speaker 9: Really?
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  Speaker 7: My whole life is a lie.
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  Speaker 6: He's one of the Berenstain Bears.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe.
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  Speaker 7: This is one of my favorite conventions to come to.
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  Speaker 7: It's always... I guess it's more low-key, maybe, than a
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  Speaker 7: lot of them are. It's definitely more hand-manageable than one.
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  Speaker 6: Than many of the rest of them. They're all... They
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  Speaker 6: get kind of crazy sometimes. Overwhelming. Where this one's... It's a.
• 4:01
  Speaker 7: Nice, relaxed.
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  Speaker 6: Outing into the horror geeks.
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  Speaker 7: But they always managed to get, like, real impressive celebrities. Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, they had Danny Trejo. They had Tracy Lord.
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  Speaker 7: They had Barry Boswick. Boswick. They had E.T.
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  Speaker 6: 's mom.
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  Speaker 10: E.T.
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  Speaker 6: 's mom. We saw her. The Crypt Keeper. We saw him.
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  Speaker 7: Who else did we see? We saw a whole bunch
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  Speaker 7: of people. Freddy Krueger was here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Robert Englund's in that building right there, wandering around.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: The guy who manages to have a line no matter
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  Speaker 7: where we are, Kane Hodder? I don't understand that one.
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  Speaker 6: I don't get that. Who hasn't seen Kane Hodder at
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  Speaker 6: this point?
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  Speaker 7: I mean, seriously, he's at every convention we go to
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  Speaker 7: and every convention he has a line at the goddamn door.
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  Speaker 6: I see him every two weeks of my life. Why
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  Speaker 6: are you people not done with him like I am?
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  Speaker 7: I don't get it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, whatever.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, you know what? Whatever helps his career, but I
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  Speaker 7: just don't get it. Who else did we see here
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  Speaker 7: today that was pretty impressive? They had some paranormal people.
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  Speaker 7: They had the Ghost Brothers.
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  Speaker 6: Ghost Brothers? They seemed like they were having fun.
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  Speaker 7: They had the guy I saw at the BMV last week.
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  Speaker 6: I don't think he's paranormal. He's just a dude who
• 5:01
  Speaker 6: keeps showing up at conventions.
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  Speaker 7: Well, he makes movies, I think.
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  Speaker 6: That's the story, but I still kind of question it.
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  Speaker 7: Did I discuss that?
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  Speaker 6: I don't think you did, but yeah. I guess we
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  Speaker 6: don't even have to out him. Just describe what happened,
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  Speaker 6: and I think it's funny.
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  Speaker 7: I was at the BMV getting my.
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  Speaker 6: I guess, because I always thought it was the DMV.
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  Speaker 7: Once the Bureau of Motor Vehicles opened.
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  Speaker 6: Just so people aren't confused.
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  Speaker 7: It's the BMV over in Indiana, apparently. I don't know
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  Speaker 7: if there's a difference in Louisville. Is it the DMV?
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  Speaker 1: Over in Louisville, it's the Department of Motor Vehicles. It
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  Speaker 1: is the DMV.
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  Speaker 7: But in Indiana, it's the BMV.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, the Bureau of Motor Vehicles.
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  Speaker 7: Either way, I was in there waiting patiently. Which is
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  Speaker 7: something that, no, I don't.
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  Speaker 2: Never happened.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: So you had to actually get like a new card made?
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  Speaker 6: Like they had to take the photo and whatnot?
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  Speaker 7: No, I was getting the card registered. So I had
• 5:46
  Speaker 7: to get.
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  Speaker 6: Swapping out the registration.
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  Speaker 7: I had to do like a title switch. Yes, it's
• 5:49
  Speaker 7: really interesting for everybody at home. I had to do
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  Speaker 7: like the title transfer.
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  Speaker 6: This is important to the story.
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  Speaker 1: I know, right?
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  Speaker 7: So I'm sitting there. I got my number. I don't
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  Speaker 7: remember what my number was. I was like, what is
• 5:58
  Speaker 7: Harley Quinn doing over here?
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  Speaker 6: Don't you worry about what they're doing out in the
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  Speaker 6: parking lot.
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  Speaker 7: I'm serious. She was going for his junk, like, right
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  Speaker 7: here in the parking lot. That was, yeah. But anyways,
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  Speaker 7: so I'm sitting there, and, like, this guy and his
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  Speaker 7: wife walk in, and I'm like, well, this guy thinks
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  Speaker 7: he's a fucking rock star. He has, like, a t-shirt
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  Speaker 7: with the sleeves cut off. He has, like, the denim
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  Speaker 7: vest with all the patches all over it with the sleeve,
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  Speaker 7: or the vest. There's no sleeves to begin with. All
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  Speaker 7: these cool patches all over it. He's wearing, like, the hat.
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  Speaker 7: I can't even describe the hat. You know, like a
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  Speaker 7: rock star hat.
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  Speaker 6: Like a leather cowboy hat or something to that effect.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 7: A total rock star.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: And then he's wearing like sweatpants and tennis shoes.
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  Speaker 6: And I'm like, super cool.
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  Speaker 7: I'm like, did I understand why I go a little
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  Speaker 7: bit relaxed? Cause you're going to do the BMV, but
• 6:43
  Speaker 7: why half-ass it? Either put on your matching like sweatshirt
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  Speaker 7: with your sleeves cut off or put on your goddamn
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  Speaker 7: rockstar pants like a big boy and.
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  Speaker 6: Just, just wear your metal boots and whatever the hell
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  Speaker 6: else you wear on your outings into the world in
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  Speaker 6: full regale.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, it was pretty, I was like, I see this guy.
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  Speaker 7: I'm pretty sure I see this guy at all the conventions.
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  Speaker 7: But it wasn't until I looked at his Facebook page
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  Speaker 7: and saw his wife. I'm like, I don't remember. Yeah,
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  Speaker 7: that's definitely. That's kind of the question. I'm like, why
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  Speaker 7: do I know this guy? Every fucking horror convention we
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  Speaker 7: go to.
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  Speaker 6: Every horror convention we go to, he's there. He is.
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  Speaker 6: Peddling whatever it is that he does. I think he
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  Speaker 6: just likes to hang out at horror conventions.
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  Speaker 7: He's as bad as we are. He did make a
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  Speaker 7: horror movie that we did see or that I saw.
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  Speaker 7: Did you saw it?
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  Speaker 6: I don't think I remember.
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  Speaker 7: I thought you watched it.
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  Speaker 1: What horror movie?
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  Speaker 7: If I tell what the movie is, everybody's going to
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  Speaker 7: know who it was.
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  Speaker 6: It was Dirty.
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  Speaker 1: Never mind.
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  Speaker 7: I don't care. He's not going to give out his
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  Speaker 7: home address or anything.
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  Speaker 2: He made.
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  Speaker 1: And you saw him at the BMV?
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  Speaker 7: Yes, I told you this.
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  Speaker 1: Right next to our house. That's pretty funny.
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  Speaker 6: What a rock star he must be.
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  Speaker 7: I didn't specify which one it was. It could be
• 7:53
  Speaker 7: up in the air.
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  Speaker 1: There's many BMVs around where we live.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, Harley Quinn is reapplying the Joker's makeup. That's what's
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  Speaker 6: going on here.
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  Speaker 7: Got the door in the way. I can't see what
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  Speaker 7: else she's doing.
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  Speaker 6: I think she's just doing a... Again, it looks like
• 8:08
  Speaker 6: we're just in the front of a Macy's or something.
• 8:10
  Speaker 6: She's just giving them a makeover.
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  Speaker 7: It was a rather uneventful drive down here today, which
• 8:16
  Speaker 7: is good, because usually we get stuck in the hellacious
• 8:19
  Speaker 7: traffic of parades or bike tours or whatever.
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  Speaker 6: Usually there's some other weird, crazy thing going on at
• 8:25
  Speaker 6: the exact same time.
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  Speaker 1: No, we got stuck in a little bit of football traffic.
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  Speaker 7: I was a little bit further away. It wasn't as
• 8:32
  Speaker 7: bad as the marathon traffic we've gotten stuck in before.
• 8:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right. The marathon traffic was really bad.
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  Speaker 6: They also made many more purchases than sometimes. Some of
• 8:46
  Speaker 6: them might not happen yet.
• 8:48
  Speaker 7: It's not my birthday!
• 8:49
  Speaker 1: That's because I got a bonus check.
• 8:52
  Speaker 7: Which means birthday!
• 8:54
  Speaker 6: Except it's not your birthday yet, so you don't know
• 8:55
  Speaker 6: you got anything yet.
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  Speaker 7: Birthday, birthday, birthday, birthday.
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  Speaker 6: One of these days, though, you might get something cool. Birthday, birthday, birthday, birthday.
• 9:04
  Speaker 7: It's a birthday song. I love October. It's like my
• 9:09
  Speaker 7: favorite of all the months. I wish we could have
• 9:10
  Speaker 7: like a longer October.
• 9:12
  Speaker 1: Like three months of October.
• 9:13
  Speaker 7: Three months of October would be awesome.
• 9:15
  Speaker 6: I could use that. I could totally make use of that.
• 9:19
  Speaker 7: I would. And if it would stay the same temperature,
• 9:21
  Speaker 7: like October weather.
• 9:23
  Speaker 1: It depends on what part of October. Because sometimes it's
• 9:26
  Speaker 1: been October.
• 9:26
  Speaker 7: And it's been What October is in my head.
• 9:29
  Speaker 1: October that you think of when you think of being
• 9:31
  Speaker 1: a kid. Like, you know, 60s maybe.
• 9:35
  Speaker 10: 70s.
• 9:35
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Probably 60s.
• 9:38
  Speaker 6: You want it kind of chilly, yeah.
• 9:40
  Speaker 1: That faint smell of somebody burning wood outside or burning leaves.
• 9:44
  Speaker 1: Which I'm not sure. Can you burn leaves anymore?
• 9:47
  Speaker 6: I mean, you can. Whether or not they like it
• 9:50
  Speaker 6: is a different stuff.
• 9:51
  Speaker 7: When it starts getting to the season where boyfriend will
• 9:52
  Speaker 7: let me have chili. Yeah. Because I'm like all the time.
• 9:56
  Speaker 7: Let's have chili. And he's like, no, girlfriend. It's 110
• 9:59
  Speaker 7: degrees outside. We can't have chili. like, but fuck, I
• 10:01
  Speaker 7: want chili.
• 10:02
  Speaker 1: When you have to work in a place that's 100
• 10:04
  Speaker 1: and some degrees.
• 10:06
  Speaker 7: Yes, but our house is like 70 degrees.
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. But I got to go to work
• 10:12
  Speaker 1: the next day with chili belly in like 115 degree heat.
• 10:17
  Speaker 1: And then on top of that, with a flame in
• 10:19
  Speaker 1: front of me, there's so many thousand degrees. But chili's
• 10:22
  Speaker 1: so good. Last thing I want is chili.
• 10:23
  Speaker 7: It's so good. I had pumpkin pie twice already this year.
• 10:29
  Speaker 1: Oh, man.
• 10:29
  Speaker 7: I bought two pumpkin pies. I've eaten most of them
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  Speaker 7: by myself.
• 10:32
  Speaker 6: I just bought pumpkin pie flavored things. I had, let's see,
• 10:37
  Speaker 6: I kicked off. My first pumpkin pie flavored thing was Twinkies.
• 10:41
  Speaker 7: I thought it was disgusting. Actually, not bad.
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  Speaker 6: I guess it's kind of subtle. It's more so than
• 10:47
  Speaker 6: I expected.
• 10:48
  Speaker 7: I've never eaten a Twinkie.
• 10:49
  Speaker 6: I mean, Twinkies are, you know, they're not food anyway,
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  Speaker 6: so it's fine.
• 10:54
  Speaker 7: I've never had a Twinkie.
• 10:56
  Speaker 6: What the hell is wrong with you?
• 10:57
  Speaker 1: Last Twinkie I had, I think I was probably around
• 10:59
  Speaker 1: like six or seven. So it would have been back
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: in the 70s.
• 11:03
  Speaker 6: They were probably still made with actual food items at
• 11:06
  Speaker 6: that point.
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: Not beef fat?
• 11:08
  Speaker 6: No, it's just like a chemical set.
• 11:10
  Speaker 7: I did have the Hostess Caramel Apple Cupcakes.
• 11:13
  Speaker 8: All right.
• 11:14
  Speaker 6: That's alright.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, I don't think I'm going to... I stole
• 11:16
  Speaker 7: one from my stepdad. But I don't think I need
• 11:19
  Speaker 7: to go out and buy like an entire... I don't
• 11:20
  Speaker 7: think I could eat a whole box. Yeah.
• 11:22
  Speaker 6: That's true with a lot of these things.
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  Speaker 7: That's... I'm so sad because I used to love the
• 11:26
  Speaker 7: shit out of some... It was like the orange cupcakes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 11:29
  Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying?
• 11:30
  Speaker 7: And then they quit making them for a while. I
• 11:32
  Speaker 7: don't know if it's a couple months or close to
• 11:33
  Speaker 7: a year. They quit making like the Hostess orange... Nobody
• 11:37
  Speaker 7: gives a shit about my orange cupcakes. But they quit
• 11:40
  Speaker 7: making them for like a while. And they brought them back,
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  Speaker 7: and it just tasted disgusting. You could taste, like, the
• 11:45
  Speaker 7: beef fat in it.
• 11:46
  Speaker 1: The orange cakes?
• 11:47
  Speaker 6: No, it's more beef fat.
• 11:48
  Speaker 1: I love the orange cakes.
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  Speaker 7: That's what I'm saying.
• 11:51
  Speaker 1: The old ones. I don't know what the new ones
• 11:53
  Speaker 1: taste like.
• 11:54
  Speaker 7: Like cow's innards.
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  Speaker 1: Cupcake cow anus.
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  Speaker 7: You can taste the just.
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: The yuck? The chemicals?
• 12:06
  Speaker 7: Yeah, you can just taste the gross of it. You
• 12:08
  Speaker 7: can taste, like, I don't know. It's just so gross.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I didn't have any of that. The Twinkies were
• 12:14
  Speaker 6: all right for, again, they're not a food item.
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  Speaker 2: I know that.
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  Speaker 6: I just went out of sheer morbid curiosity what these
• 12:19
  Speaker 6: are going to be like. And the pumpkin end of
• 12:22
  Speaker 6: it's kind of subtle, so I'm okay with that.
• 12:23
  Speaker 7: Do you know what it's almost time for? It's probably
• 12:25
  Speaker 7: time now.
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 12:27
  Speaker 6: Is it shake time?
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 12:30
  Speaker 6: We might have to stop right now for you to
• 12:31
  Speaker 6: go get a milkshake.
• 12:32
  Speaker 7: Oh, shit.
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Steak and Shakes.
• 12:35
  Speaker 7: Caramel Apple Milkshake. It's the best thing that has ever
• 12:37
  Speaker 7: existed in this entire world. I mean, I'm serious. Good goddamn.
• 12:42
  Speaker 7: Caramel Apple Milkshakes, that's where it's at.
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: Well, every time they make apple anything, it's always green apple.
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: It's very rarely red apple.
• 12:49
  Speaker 7: And it tastes fake.
• 12:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it does.
• 12:52
  Speaker 7: But a Steak and Shake, I will pimp them out,
• 12:56
  Speaker 7: let me tell you.
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they pretty much nailed that caramel apple.
• 12:59
  Speaker 7: It's got the red apple taste, and it tastes like
• 13:01
  Speaker 7: a red fucking apple.
• 13:02
  Speaker 6: And it is so good.
• 13:03
  Speaker 1: It tastes like caramel apples I remember as a kid.
• 13:07
  Speaker 1: When we had caramel apples.
• 13:10
  Speaker 6: So far, I've had more milkshakes lately, though, but I
• 13:12
  Speaker 6: haven't gone there, so we need to work that in,
• 13:15
  Speaker 6: maybe right now. But before that, I have had many
• 13:19
  Speaker 6: Reese's Cups. I've been like, now they're just They're making
• 13:23
  Speaker 6: pumpkin-shaped Reese's.
• 13:24
  Speaker 7: I think the Joker just waved at me.
• 13:26
  Speaker 8: He did.
• 13:26
  Speaker 7: Why did the Joker just wave at me?
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: Maybe he waved at me.
• 13:29
  Speaker 6: You never know.
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: I gave him the head nod.
• 13:32
  Speaker 7: Oh, did you? Was it some silent communication that I missed?
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: That was the bro nod.
• 13:35
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 13:36
  Speaker 6: You and Joker are bros.
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: What's up? Bro code.
• 13:41
  Speaker 6: I don't know if I trust the Joker and the
• 13:43
  Speaker 6: bro code.
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: You don't have to wave. You just head nod.
• 13:47
  Speaker 6: But, yep, I've gotten several pumpkin-shaped Reese's cups. Can't go
• 13:51
  Speaker 6: wrong with that.
• 13:52
  Speaker 7: Those have gotten weirder tasting, too. Those don't taste the
• 13:54
  Speaker 7: same as I remember tasting when I was a kid.
• 13:56
  Speaker 6: Well, it's not kid times no more. You got all
• 13:59
  Speaker 6: old and growed up, and look what happened.
• 14:00
  Speaker 7: But it's not just me, but they changed the candy.
• 14:03
  Speaker 6: They always change stuff. You know that. Everything's New Coke.
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: Everything's Crystal Pepsi.
• 14:09
  Speaker 6: Everything's Crystal Pepsi. Everything's Surge Cola. Speaking of which.
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: I like Surge.
• 14:16
  Speaker 6: We found one inside today.
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: Somebody had a cooler of Surge.
• 14:19
  Speaker 6: Did you feel surged after you refueled?
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, I was thinking, like as I was
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: drinking it, I was thinking, I was like, you know what?
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: I probably shouldn't have this because I've already had two
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: cups of coffee this morning. You know, I'm not supposed
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: to be drinking things like that.
• 14:38
  Speaker 6: So it's like a science experiment. We're going to see
• 14:40
  Speaker 6: what happens now.
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: Well, more like words of heart attack and stroke.
• 14:44
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's what I'm saying. That could be the outcome.
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no.
• 14:48
  Speaker 6: I might beat you to it. We'll see.
• 14:50
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: That's the shitty thing about getting older. You know, you're
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: doing the same things you used to do when you
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: were younger, and then you're going to the hospital with
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: irregular heartbeat and almost having a stroke.
• 15:06
  Speaker 6: Hey, fibs. But it makes it all worthwhile.
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: They're like, you need to calm down.
• 15:12
  Speaker 6: You're like, but I need more candy.
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the freaking heart doctor. He's like, He's like, do
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: you smoke? I was like, no. He goes, do you drink?
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: I was like, no. He's like, do you do drugs?
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: I was like, no. Yeah, don't believe me. He's like,
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: what are you doing? I was like, I wake up
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: in the morning and do 100 push-ups. He's like, there's
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: no reason you need to do that. Dude, fuck off.
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: Don't tell me what to do. Whatever the fuck I want.
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: Tell me I can't do shit.
• 15:40
  Speaker 6: I just keep buying candy. That leads you to a
• 15:43
  Speaker 6: healthy body, right?
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know.
• 15:45
  Speaker 7: So are they going to bring back out the candy
• 15:48
  Speaker 7: corn Oreos?
• 15:49
  Speaker 6: Oh, have you seen the there's like 14 new weird
• 15:52
  Speaker 6: Oreo offshoots and it's kind of annoying. Like they're all
• 15:55
  Speaker 6: just things. I'm just like, that's not. No, don't. There's
• 15:58
  Speaker 6: like an apple. There's like an apple pie Oreos and
• 16:02
  Speaker 6: there's a peanut butter and jelly Oreos. And like there's
• 16:05
  Speaker 6: a lot.
• 16:05
  Speaker 7: Of the worst, the worst, the worst. I could not
• 16:08
  Speaker 7: even couldn't even.
• 16:09
  Speaker 6: Happy birthday.
• 16:10
  Speaker 7: Swedish Fish.
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: Swedish Fish. That's terrible.
• 16:13
  Speaker 7: See, that's what I'm like.
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: Who likes Swedish Fish?
• 16:16
  Speaker 6: Who at Nabisco is greenlighting this shit?
• 16:18
  Speaker 7: I at least thought Happy Birthday could taste okay. Those
• 16:21
  Speaker 7: were nasty as shit. But when I saw this, I
• 16:24
  Speaker 7: just looked at the Swedish Fish and I was like, no.
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: Just no.
• 16:26
  Speaker 7: That's what I'm saying.
• 16:28
  Speaker 6: Who looked at that idea and went, yeah, that's going
• 16:30
  Speaker 6: to taste great.
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: Weird people.
• 16:33
  Speaker 7: Some of them have been surprisingly, like I said, the
• 16:35
  Speaker 7: candy corn was not bad. But I had caramel apple
• 16:38
  Speaker 7: once and I don't remember it being bad.
• 16:39
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: I can't really say that because I like some weird stuff.
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: So it's not really fair for me to say that. Hey,
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: come on now. Squid's good.
• 16:46
  Speaker 7: No, it's not.
• 16:46
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 16:48
  Speaker 8: It is.
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: Squid candy.
• 16:51
  Speaker 7: Candy corn M & Ms.
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
• 16:54
  Speaker 6: Those are still the white ones, though. I don't get
• 16:55
  Speaker 6: into those. I tried them just for, again, just I
• 16:58
  Speaker 6: got to test out these things. Voodooskotch. Much like my
• 17:01
  Speaker 6: new one, though. This year I saw it and went, damn,
• 17:03
  Speaker 6: now I have to buy that. And I don't even
• 17:05
  Speaker 6: know that I want this whole bag, but they only
• 17:06
  Speaker 6: came in the bag full of hand-in-out size. So I
• 17:09
  Speaker 6: now have pumpkin-flavored Kit-Kat.
• 17:12
  Speaker 7: How's that?
• 17:13
  Speaker 6: Actually, it's pumpkin pie. And from that angle, it almost
• 17:16
  Speaker 6: works because the Kit-Kat inside part actually kind of matches
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: up like a pie crust. And then you get a
• 17:22
  Speaker 6: little pumpkin flavor. It's probably a little too much pumpkin flavor, but,
• 17:24
  Speaker 6: you know, again, it's supposed to be pumpkin-flavored. Can you
• 17:28
  Speaker 6: bring it with us?
• 17:29
  Speaker 7: Can you bring a bag of candy?
• 17:30
  Speaker 6: It's going to be all melty in the car. You
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: know how that goes.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: Oh, get this. Guess what I had a couple weeks ago.
• 17:35
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: I made a fucking pitcher of Kool-Aid. And it didn't
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: make me sick.
• 17:41
  Speaker 6: You survived the Kool-Aid.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: Again. We still got packages of Kool-Aid from like, how
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: many years.
• 17:46
  Speaker 6: Ago was that?
• 17:46
  Speaker 7: I have no idea.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 17:49
  Speaker 7: We were out of tea.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: We were out of tea. But we had bought like
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: a long time ago. It was like, holy shit, Kool-Aid.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: So we bought up a bunch of it. And it's
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: been in my fridge, or in our fridge. It's been
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: stacked in our fridge in the condiments little drawer thing.
• 18:02
  Speaker 7: Hiding behind the McDonald's ketchups.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: Hiding behind the McDonald's ketchups and the mini Taco Bell
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: sauce packets. You know that drawer.
• 18:11
  Speaker 7: Everybody's got that drawer.
• 18:14
  Speaker 6: I'm like, why do I have 14 soy sauces?
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: I don't know. But yeah, we didn't have any tea.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: We ran out of tea, and I didn't want to
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: drink water.
• 18:21
  Speaker 7: Nobody wants to drink water.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: And, you know, I was like, You know, we had
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: mango peach. I don't want mango peach. There's a reason
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: why mango peach is still in there, because it's one
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: of those, you know, when you go and you try
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: to grab, like, a variety of Kool-Aid, and you always
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: grab that one by accident.
• 18:39
  Speaker 6: How did this get in there?
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're like, oh, man, I didn't want to grab shit.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: I'll just drink that later. And then it ends up
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: in the back with the Kool-Aid. But for some reason,
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: last time, the Kool-Aid made me sick.
• 18:50
  Speaker 7: Maybe it had a bad sugar to Kool-Aid ratio.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think, well, we went by your sugar ratio,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: which was like three cups of sugar.
• 18:58
  Speaker 6: Mostly sugar.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: A little bit of water. Yeah, I can't have that
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: much sugar. I think this time I just put like,
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: what did I put, one cup of sugar?
• 19:06
  Speaker 7: And we added some more.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: It tasted good this time. I drank it all up.
• 19:12
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 19:12
  Speaker 6: Follow the instructions, kid.
• 19:14
  Speaker 7: Drink it up, drink it up. Yum, yum, yum.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, she was like, should we drink this? Because it's like,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: I don't know how old this is.
• 19:19
  Speaker 6: Like, it's powder.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: It's powder, you know, and food coloring. It should be okay.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: It's not really got a flavor to it.
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: Whatever.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: I mean.
• 19:28
  Speaker 6: There's not much to it to go back, really.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a ghoul flavor.
• 19:30
  Speaker 7: Just ghoul.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: I don't know what ghouls taste like.
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: Now you do.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: Ghoul aid.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: They taste pretty good.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: Well, I guess you at home can go take a
• 19:40
  Speaker 6: break here and get yourself some pumpkin-flavored candy and ghoul aid.
• 19:44
  Speaker 7: And booter scotch. I don't know.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Can they find ghoul aid? Is it even out anymore?
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: I guess you better.
• 19:48
  Speaker 7: They still make, like, the little packs. Like, the little, uh...
• 19:51
  Speaker 7: Like the....
• 19:53
  Speaker 10: Squee.
• 19:53
  Speaker 7: Like the.
• 19:53
  Speaker 10: Yeah?
• 19:54
  Speaker 7: Like the... You know what I'm talking about.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: I have no idea.
• 19:56
  Speaker 7: The little foil packs. Kind of like.
• 19:58
  Speaker 6: Capri Sun-like?
• 19:59
  Speaker 7: Yeah, kind of like those. What?
• 20:01
  Speaker 6: They make.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: They make that, like... A Goulet.
• 20:03
  Speaker 7: Really? Yeah.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: Like, Kool-Aid, but in packs? Like a Capri Sun?
• 20:08
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: Seriously?
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: I've never seen that.
• 20:12
  Speaker 7: Your mind just blowed up, didn't it?
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, I didn't have, I mean, fuck, come on.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: I didn't have Capri Sun, you know, that much when
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: I was growing up because I'd always see commercials for
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: it and all these kids were like, Fucking skateboarding.
• 20:24
  Speaker 6: It makes you skateboard better, obviously.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, fucking skateboarding, playing basketball, and, like, waterboarding, and all
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: kinds of cool-ass shit.
• 20:32
  Speaker 6: Waterboarding.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, waterboarding. You were getting waterboarded with Capri Sun. God,
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: how bad did that be?
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: You tell me what I want to know, and I'll
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: give you a Capri Sun.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: But, yeah, they were all, like, all these kids were
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: out doing all this cool shit, you know, and they're friends,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: and they're, like, hanging out, and they're like, yeah, Capri Sun,
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: you know, and I was like, oh, man, I want
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: some Capri Sun. My parents were always like, you don't
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: need that shit, you know.
• 20:56
  Speaker 7: They didn't cuss.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: They didn't cuss, but they were like, you don't need that.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: That's sugar, and sugar's bad for you. And so you
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: drink water. You drink water.
• 21:05
  Speaker 7: You share.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I didn't have any friends because there wasn't
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: anybody around us. We lived out in the middle of nowhere.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: So it was me with a Ziploc bag and some water,
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: pretending like.
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: I took a free side.
• 21:16
  Speaker 11: I'm cool.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: I'm cool.
• 21:17
  Speaker 7: Did you have a straw into it?
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: We didn't have straws either.
• 21:22
  Speaker 6: Just sipping out of a Ziploc.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, bite the bag. That sucked.
• 21:27
  Speaker 6: That's pretty sad, actually.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: My childhood kind of sucked in a way.
• 21:32
  Speaker 6: In a way.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: In all the ways. My parents were always like, you
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: don't need that. You don't need that. It's like, we
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: weren't poor growing up.
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: They just acted like you were.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: You wouldn't have known growing up because it was one
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: of those, my parents shopped at Value City and Scratching it?
• 21:53
  Speaker 6: And scratching it. Nah.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: But, I mean, for me, for, like, school clothes or
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: thrift store or stuff like that.
• 21:58
  Speaker 7: Dude, Value City was the bomb.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Not when I was a kid. When I was a kid,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Value City was full of irregular stuff and mismatched and misprints.
• 22:07
  Speaker 7: It was a perfect fit for me.
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: Now we're just talking about the customers.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: It wasn't a perfect fit for me, you know.
• 22:14
  Speaker 7: I'm irregular and a misfit.
• 22:15
  Speaker 8: Well.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: Indented.
• 22:16
  Speaker 7: A little bit indented.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Indented.
• 22:19
  Speaker 7: But.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, then my kid came along when I had my kid.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: And then my parents go out of the way to
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: give her everything. Straws. You want a straw?
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: Yeah, my kid gets straws.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: My kid gets Capri Sun.
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: Fancy living. Shit, we got straws.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: When I was a kid, I couldn't have straws.
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: Were they bendy straws? Because that is fancy.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they were fucking bendy straws.
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: That is fancy.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: And my kid needs a fucking straw for everything. She
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: goes over there and she grabs a straw. I'm like,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: you don't need no damn straw. And she's like, it's
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: a bendy straw. And I'm like, you don't need fucking straws.
• 22:50
  Speaker 7: We had the crazy straws. Oh, swirly straws.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: I always wanted one of those.
• 22:55
  Speaker 7: I had so many of those. I had so many
• 22:58
  Speaker 7: of those.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd see kids with those on TV, and I
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: was like, oh, man, I want one of those.
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: See, the downside was you'd drink out of that once,
• 23:03
  Speaker 6: and then it'd get all gross and gunked up, and
• 23:06
  Speaker 6: you'd have to continually hose it out and actually take
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: care of it, which most kids don't want to take
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: care of anything. It was too much effort for them.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: It's a sad thing.
• 23:15
  Speaker 7: Those were good times. My childhood was so much better
• 23:16
  Speaker 7: than yours.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: It was.
• 23:18
  Speaker 7: I had crazy straws.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: Mine mostly consisted of work.
• 23:21
  Speaker 6: And waterboarding.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: Waterboarding would have been great.
• 23:26
  Speaker 7: I had the straw that was also the glasses.
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: Oh, you're out of control now.
• 23:31
  Speaker 7: That was so much work.
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: You're living like Pee Wee's Playhouse World now.
• 23:35
  Speaker 7: That was so much work. But now you get a.
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: Aneurysm on the way to your drink. Just wanted some cool, hey,
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: damn it.
• 23:45
  Speaker 7: We had the kind that you could make your own design.
• 23:47
  Speaker 7: Connector pieces. What? We were highfalutin. Highfalutin. Shit.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: You're fancy.
• 23:54
  Speaker 7: You know, talking about connector pieces and you had right
• 23:56
  Speaker 7: angles and swirls.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: I didn't know they had that shit.
• 24:00
  Speaker 7: My grandma was awesome.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: I know your grandma was awesome.
• 24:04
  Speaker 6: She was pretty cool. Spoiling those damn kids.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: It's like, you know, summertime, kids are out playing and
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: having fun and shit like that. I was like, Here's
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: a bucket. Now go pick up rocks. Don't come back
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: until that bucket's full.
• 24:18
  Speaker 6: Wax on, wax off.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: All that kind of shit.
• 24:21
  Speaker 7: I had to plant a garden.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: Digging ditches and watering trees and shit. And it sucked
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: because we had trees everywhere and they all had to
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: get one five gallon bucket of water each. Jesus.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: And a little kid and it was like 15 acres
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: of land which really isn't that much but I mean
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: when you're a kid it's a lot.
• 24:40
  Speaker 11: It's a squirrel.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: But It was like each tree, and we had like
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: a shit ton of trees too, but each tree got
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: a five gallon bucket of water. So you can imagine
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: as a kid, like I was probably 10 or 11,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: trying to carry two five gallon buckets of water, which
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: is fucking impossible for a little kid to do. You know,
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: even with a stick.
• 24:58
  Speaker 7: We had a wheelbarrow and we had to do our
• 25:00
  Speaker 7: five to go.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Oh no, I wasn't allowed to use a wheelbarrow.
• 25:03
  Speaker 7: When we dug our pool that we got in trouble for.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: You sure you weren't on a chain gang? It was
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: about that way, you know. I'm telling you, the guy
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: that was my dad was a fucking asshole.
• 25:15
  Speaker 7: And this cheerful episode of Moving Out Down brought to
• 25:17
  Speaker 7: you by My Childhood Was Better Than Jay's.
• 25:20
  Speaker 6: I was just trying to encourage you to go get
• 25:22
  Speaker 6: some Goulet and have yourself a pumpkin-flavored piece of candy.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: And they want to know why I'm so fucking irresponsible nowadays.
• 25:28
  Speaker 8: That's why.
• 25:32
  Speaker 7: Booter Scratch M & M' s. Did I mention those too?
• 25:34
  Speaker 7: I keep trying to mention the Booter Scratch.
• 25:35
  Speaker 6: You keep trying to get them in.
• 25:36
  Speaker 7: But nobody wants to listen.
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: Like you're getting kickbacks from M & M' s.
• 25:39
  Speaker 7: Booter Scratch.
• 25:39
  Speaker 6: If M & M Mars is sending you a check
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: for this, I want a piece of it.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: Is he wearing a tunic? Chainmail?
• 25:44
  Speaker 6: Fuck yeah!
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Night's the round table. Okay, enough of my fucking shit.
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: So you go get yourself a Goulet and some candy.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: Hell yeah.
• 25:57
  Speaker 7: And with a bendy straw.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: I'm going to set some shit on fire.
• 25:59
  Speaker 6: And we will be back with this week's guest and
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  Speaker 6: the movie.
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  Speaker 1: That was just sad.
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  Speaker 11: On the DVD, there wasn't none of that crap back
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  Speaker 11: in 1970.
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  Speaker 3: We didn't know about a World Wide Web.
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  Speaker 11: Was a whole different game being played back when I
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  Speaker 11: was a kid.
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  Speaker 6: Want to get down in a cool way? Picture yourself
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  Speaker 6: on a beautiful day.
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  Speaker 11: Big bell bottoms and groovy long hair. Just a walking
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  Speaker 11: in style with a portable CD player. on the AM radio. Yeah,
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  Speaker 11: you can hear the music on the AM radio.
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  Speaker 12: Flashback back to 72, another summer.
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  Speaker 11: In the neighborhood, hanging out with nothing to do.
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  Speaker 8: Sometimes we go driving around in my.
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  Speaker 4: Sister's Pinto, cruising with the windows rolled down.
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  Speaker 11: We listened to the radio.
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  Speaker 8: Station, we were too damn bored about the 8-track tape.
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  Speaker 8: But more than anything, Let's all go to the lobby
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  Speaker 8: Let's all go to the lobby Let's all go to
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  Speaker 8: the lobby To get ourselves.
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  Speaker 11: A treat Delicious things to eat The popcorn can't be beat.
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  Speaker 4: The sparkling drinks are just dandy.
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  Speaker 11: The chocolate bars and the candy So let's all go
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  Speaker 11: to the lobby To get ourselves a treat Let's all
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  Speaker 11: go to the lobby to get.
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  Speaker 7: Ourselves a treat.
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  Speaker 9: Invaders from another galaxy. Unholy overlords with their fiendish diabolical
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  Speaker 9: mind machine. Fantastic Invasion of Planet Earth. A mind-bending voyage
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  Speaker 9: in 3D. Fantastic Invasion of Planet Earth. A thrilling science
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  Speaker 9: fiction adventure in widescreen 3D space vision. Fantastic Invasion of
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  Speaker 9: Planet Earth. Rated PG. Don't miss it.
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  Speaker 12: Woke up this morning feeling low.
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  Speaker 1: Where my loved one used to live, she ain't there
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  Speaker 1: no more.
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  Speaker 6: Poor me. Why such bad luck fall on me? Poor me.
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  Speaker 6: I'm living in misery.
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  Speaker 9: From ancient Genesis to the modern screen, the name.
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  Speaker 4: The last of the prehistoric giants sees his first girl, Noah.
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  Speaker 4: Hear Iga talk, the ancient language of love used at
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  Speaker 8: Hi, I'm Richard Keel, and you're listening to Movie Meltdown.
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  Speaker 4: See Iga.
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  Speaker 12: It's part of your problem, you know, you haven't seen
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• 31:14
  Speaker 1: All of life's riddles are answered in the movies.
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  Speaker 4: Now, on with the show.
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  Speaker 6: So this week, I'm glad to sit down with our
• 31:30
  Speaker 6: very special guest co-host for this segment, Bill Corbett. Bill
• 31:34
  Speaker 6: is a writer, an actor, and eventually a reluctant puppeteer.
• 31:39
  Speaker 6: And yes, many of you know Bill from Riff Trax,
• 31:41
  Speaker 6: and before that, I'm sure even more of you know
• 31:43
  Speaker 6: him from Mystery Science Theater 3000. Where amongst being a
• 31:47
  Speaker 6: writer for the show, and eventually playing the Observer, he
• 31:50
  Speaker 6: is still probably most notably, and certainly most impressively to
• 31:54
  Speaker 6: geeks everywhere, known for playing Crow T. Robot. Well, Crow 2.0
• 31:58
  Speaker 6: that is, but we'll get to that soon enough. As
• 32:01
  Speaker 6: we get into this segment, and you know me, Since
• 32:04
  Speaker 6: I am the creator of the Caffeinated Movie Geek, it
• 32:06
  Speaker 6: should come as no surprise that as I head into
• 32:09
  Speaker 6: town today, I'm going to stop and get my coffee. But,
• 32:12
  Speaker 6: in addition, as often as I can when I hit
• 32:15
  Speaker 6: this area, I try to stop into one of my
• 32:17
  Speaker 6: favorite donut shops. And this week is no exception. So
• 32:21
  Speaker 6: it should be right at home, in the middle of
• 32:23
  Speaker 6: all our talk of seasonal foods and other pumpkin-infused delicacies,
• 32:27
  Speaker 6: that I not only come in toady my coffee, but
• 32:30
  Speaker 6: also donuts. But hey, what kind of a host would
• 32:33
  Speaker 6: I be... if I didn't bring enough for my guest.
• 32:35
  Speaker 6: So let's go now as we sit down with Bill
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  Speaker 6: for the presentation of the donuts. So I did plan
• 32:44
  Speaker 6: ahead and bring paper towels, but we have multiple options.
• 32:48
  Speaker 6: You can pick whichever you want. There's two regular glazed,
• 32:56
  Speaker 6: one chocolate glazed, and there's one that is a maple
• 33:00
  Speaker 6: pumpkin spice. Since we're in October now, I.
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: Think I'll take a regular glaze.
• 33:05
  Speaker 6: Regular glaze. So if you're not claiming this pumpkin win,
• 33:10
  Speaker 6: I am all over it.
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  Speaker 10: Got donuts.
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  Speaker 2: Got the coffee.
• 33:17
  Speaker 6: Time for our new segment, Coffee with Crow. Discussing the
• 33:20
  Speaker 6: world events today from his point of view. Usually I just,
• 33:26
  Speaker 6: that's kind of one of my favorite things as time's
• 33:28
  Speaker 6: gone on is finding out kind of more about people
• 33:31
  Speaker 6: as they were kids and then kind of what led
• 33:33
  Speaker 6: them to where they ended up in the industry. So what,
• 33:38
  Speaker 6: what was your description of yourself as a kid? Donuts.
• 33:46
  Speaker 6: I knew that going in, but you can't turn down donuts.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: Now that I've finished with my donut, my description of
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: myself as a kid, um, boy, I don't know. I
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Um, So I had
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: this sort of squirrely energy of a kid with probably
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: not enough space to run around in.
• 34:09
  Speaker 6: Tight quarters kind of?
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: Sort of tight quarters. I mean, we were in a
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: row house on a block. Not a terrible neighborhood, but
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: when we wanted to play a game of stickball or baseball...
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: we would actually hear like, go in front of your
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: own house, which was, you know, about seven feet across.
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: So there really wasn't a lot of room to play baseball.
• 34:35
  Speaker 6: A little like foot and a half front yard. Yeah.
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: So, but, you know, imaginative, I think. A little neurotic
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: and trying to find my way out of the, you know,
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: the sort of weird strictures of my culture at the time,
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: which was almost like, trapped in time in the 1950s
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: yeah there's a there's a moment in the sopranos where
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: tony tells meadow um yeah out there it's the 2000s
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: in here it's still 1950 so that's kind of what
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: it felt like you.
• 35:09
  Speaker 6: Get into those little areas that are still kind of
• 35:12
  Speaker 6: their own little world.
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: And yeah italian irish catholic you know very uh i.
• 35:17
  Speaker 6: Feel like we'll jump to later i'll come back to
• 35:19
  Speaker 6: that point but yeah i Yeah, you get those... That
• 35:22
  Speaker 6: little neighborhood kind of runs itself in its own way,
• 35:25
  Speaker 6: by its own rules.
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: So, yeah.
• 35:27
  Speaker 6: Well, then, I guess, as you were growing up, again,
• 35:31
  Speaker 6: now knowing where you ended up and where most of
• 35:34
  Speaker 6: us listening to this, I'm sure, had a lot of
• 35:36
  Speaker 6: those same interests, what was it that you were drawn
• 35:39
  Speaker 6: to in the beginning? Was it film in the beginning
• 35:42
  Speaker 6: or just performance? And then, if so, what types of films?
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: I think it was... theater and writing especially writing in
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: general and when i had a couple of cool teachers
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: who would give us like um somewhat theatrical uh writing
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: assignments like i remember a really cool teacher in sixth
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: grade who said you know we're talking about dialect this
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: week and regional dialects and like do a write a
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: skit that kind of illustrates some aspect of that and
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: get one or more dialects trying to communicate with each other.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: I love that. Yeah. Yeah. So that is where I
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: started to realize I love scripting things. I love writing.
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: And that kind of led to theater. And I went
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: to an all boys high school. And the high school
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: play and musical was one of the rare times to
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: meet girls.
• 36:38
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I remember that world. And, yeah, it was always
• 36:42
  Speaker 6: odd that, like, you had to go out to another
• 36:44
  Speaker 6: school to recruit for it.
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 36:45
  Speaker 6: That or you go by kabuki rules and everyone has
• 36:48
  Speaker 6: to just put on wigs. But, yeah, I remember that
• 36:52
  Speaker 6: being kind of weird. It's like, wait, there's girls here
• 36:54
  Speaker 6: for a day?
• 36:54
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: It's a combination of sort of liking the work and
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: the creativity and just, like, The need to address the
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: lack of girls in my vicinity was very.
• 37:05
  Speaker 6: That's a very strong drive.
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: Potent combination.
• 37:07
  Speaker 6: Especially at that point. So then I guess, what was
• 37:11
  Speaker 6: your first sort of exposure to film where it sort
• 37:13
  Speaker 6: of stuck and you were like, eh, something about this
• 37:17
  Speaker 6: agrees with me.
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: Oh man, I don't know. I guess I always loved movies,
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: but I never thought that I could have anything to
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: do with them one way or another because it just
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: seemed like such a removed world.
• 37:29
  Speaker 6: I think That's, again, the way so many fans feel,
• 37:32
  Speaker 6: and it's interesting how you guys found almost the perfect way.
• 37:36
  Speaker 6: You did sort of force yourself into the movie world
• 37:39
  Speaker 6: from the outset, literally sitting on the screen in front
• 37:42
  Speaker 6: of it, jamming yourself into the movie.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: That's right. We kind of wedged ourselves between the viewer
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: and the movie.
• 37:51
  Speaker 11: I don't know.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: I think my list of movies that really caught my
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: attention when I was young are pretty... Maybe boilerplate. I
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: remember seeing The Graduate for the first time and feeling like, oh,
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: that's sort of a vocabulary I don't understand, but I
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: love it.
• 38:11
  Speaker 6: Different level of film than some of the other stuff.
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: Of the time.
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: And of course, all the Godfather movies. Well, the first two.
• 38:17
  Speaker 8: Oh, no.
• 38:18
  Speaker 6: We all love the third one.
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: And just, yeah, and then Little Thief. Things that were
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: not as mainstream like Billy Jack, which I talk about
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: often as a movie that I just adored as a kid. And,
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: you know, later on I went back to it and
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: was like, ooh, this is really cheesy.
• 38:40
  Speaker 6: I remember it by reputation and just in the last
• 38:43
  Speaker 6: two or three years went back and sat down to
• 38:45
  Speaker 6: watch it. And it's long. It's long. The good scenes
• 38:50
  Speaker 6: are still great.
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 38:51
  Speaker 6: But there's so much of the, like, I'm like, did
• 38:53
  Speaker 6: you just turn the camera on at this point? acting
• 38:55
  Speaker 6: troupe and like there's just minutes and minutes of them performing.
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah well the improv troupe from that school and one
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: of them is Howard Hessman it's so weird you know.
• 39:06
  Speaker 6: Young Howard Hessman still not that young Howard Hessman somehow
• 39:09
  Speaker 6: he still kind of.
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: Looked 40 he was 40 and then later he was
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: 42 30 years later somehow.
• 39:16
  Speaker 6: But yeah that's another one of those that's interesting to
• 39:18
  Speaker 6: revisit and that snapshot into that time and place.
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: Well and then I got so into it I mean,
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: I think I did a little stage piece about this one.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: So it was the combination of martial arts, which I
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: loved at the time, and martial arts stuff. And now
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: you go back and look at the martial arts, and
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: it's like, wow, it's so awkward and clunky compared to
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: what was to come later.
• 39:47
  Speaker 6: Again, jamming it into... a white guy in a Native
• 39:51
  Speaker 6: American scene, like all these other things that aren't really
• 39:54
  Speaker 6: the normal home for martial arts anyway.
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: His Native American mysticism and all his social justice stuff
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: was like, wow, you get to be a good guy
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: and kick ass? It's just fantastic.
• 40:06
  Speaker 6: You don't get surrounded by that many hippies and then
• 40:08
  Speaker 6: get to kick people in the face, usually. So this
• 40:11
  Speaker 6: is great.
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: And then I discovered that there was a prequel to that.
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: There was a more standard biker film with the same character,
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: and then, of course, the two sequels.
• 40:21
  Speaker 6: The many, many incarnations of him as time went on.
• 40:24
  Speaker 6: They kept trying to bring it back in those last
• 40:26
  Speaker 6: few days.
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: They did to the very last days of his life.
• 40:29
  Speaker 6: It's like Billy Jack for president and everything else along
• 40:33
  Speaker 6: the way.
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: I have a weird little story about that. Tom Laughlin,
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: I went to graduate school for screenwriting and playwriting, and
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: one day a professor said, we're bringing in this guy,
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: and I didn't catch his name. who is, like, all
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: expert in Jungian storytelling. So we were listening to him
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: for a while, and I thought, oh, what a bore.
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: This guy, like, he read one book on Jung, and
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: he thinks he knows everything. And as I looked closer,
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: I was like, oh, my God, that's Billy Jack.
• 41:00
  Speaker 6: That's Billy Jack.
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: And he just, you know, his age progressed to Billy Jack.
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: I was starting to argue with him, but then I
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: was like, he's going to jump over the table and
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: chop me in the throat.
• 41:10
  Speaker 6: He will take his shoes off and kick.
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: Me in the head.
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: I just go berserk.
• 41:15
  Speaker 6: Yeah, he continued to be a strange character.
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: He was very weird. He really, yeah. He kept it
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: really tight in the family. That family was like, that's
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: why the movies don't look so good because they really
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: never learned how to make a film.
• 41:31
  Speaker 6: And again, he seemed like he was very committed and
• 41:33
  Speaker 6: passionate about what he wanted to do, but just not
• 41:35
  Speaker 6: worried about all those other details. Just focused on the agenda.
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: He thought he could cure cancer too or something like that.
• 41:42
  Speaker 6: Kicking people in the head cures cancer. So yeah, I mean,
• 41:47
  Speaker 6: I guess just sort of drawn to that type of
• 41:50
  Speaker 6: stuff at the time and then getting into that, that
• 41:52
  Speaker 6: was into the performance aspect of it. Was that, because
• 41:57
  Speaker 6: as we were coming up here, I was discussing what
• 41:58
  Speaker 6: I'd just done was sat down with John Carroll Lynch.
• 42:02
  Speaker 6: Was that around that same time that you ended up
• 42:04
  Speaker 6: going into school or was that after college?
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: That was after college and grad school. school i went
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: i was into uh playwriting mostly and acting and i
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: um got a like i guess i would call it
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: a fellowship to write plays and sort of teach in
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: minnesota and i'd never been there before um so i
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: flew there and i knew i was going to spend
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: at least a year there doing this fellowship and um
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: i eventually started acting at the guthrie theater there which
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: is a big regional theater and that's where i met
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: john carroll lynch he was my uh my dressing roommate,
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: I guess for a little while.
• 42:42
  Speaker 6: Just odd timing since I just spoke to him.
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah. That's interesting.
• 42:46
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: And then when, you know, when he got the part
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: in Fargo, I was just so thrilled for him and
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: he was so perfect. Um, amazing. And he's had a
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: great career since.
• 42:55
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 42:56
  Speaker 6: And continue. And even moving into directing now, it's, it's interesting. Is,
• 43:02
  Speaker 6: is that something that interests you since you were so
• 43:05
  Speaker 6: like hardcore writing is directing something that, Has ever really appealed?
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: You know, I've directed a lot of stuff on stage,
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: and I guess theoretically, yeah, but I think I would
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: have had to embark on that path a long time
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: ago to, you know.
• 43:18
  Speaker 6: John just got there. Never know.
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And then it was after that, and I was
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: teaching classes in writing there for a while, and that's
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: when I hooked up with the Mystery Science Theater guys.
• 43:35
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: Because I was in sort of the writing and comedy
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: and theater scene and met them all.
• 43:42
  Speaker 6: How important is the, because this is an ongoing question
• 43:45
  Speaker 6: I have for people, because there's so many that just
• 43:47
  Speaker 6: take it upon themselves. I want to be in film.
• 43:50
  Speaker 6: I want to be an actor and just go do it.
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: And then there are.
• 43:53
  Speaker 6: People that will devote years and years of their life
• 43:56
  Speaker 6: to study. Since you spent so much time in study,
• 44:00
  Speaker 6: how do you think that affected you as then you
• 44:02
  Speaker 6: were sort of thrust into some sort of, different type
• 44:06
  Speaker 6: of performance mode there.
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: Well, you know, I, I, I didn't really spend that.
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: I did go to grad school, but before that I
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: had really not been a, I hadn't been a theater major.
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: I was vaguely sort of, uh, preparing for, uh, to
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: be a lawyer. Yeah. Just cause I had to tell
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: my parents something respectable.
• 44:24
  Speaker 6: Uh, that's the fallback for a lot of people too.
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: But I was doing a lot of theater in college
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: and then I kind of, you know, spent four years
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: in New York doing it and, putting on little plays
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: and stuff um but yeah i'd always i'd always sort
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: of gravitated towards uh comedy in my plays and i
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: know a couple of the mystery science theater people saw
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: some of my stuff and knew that i was into
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: it and i just kind of connected with them at
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: least two of the writers there took a class from
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: me you know suckers and look what happened uh And then,
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: you know, they needed writers, and I just sat in
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: with them for a while, and it kind of seemed
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: to be a good match.
• 45:07
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: And then eventually they handed me a puppet.
• 45:10
  Speaker 6: Had you been interested in puppets before that?
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: No, not at all. But I was interested in the show.
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: I loved the show. I loved its sense of humor,
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: its smartness, and, you know, its deftness, just sort of
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: like toggling between all kinds of things.
• 45:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: So, yeah, when they asked me to audition with Crow
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: when Trace was leaving, I was a little daunted. I
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: was just like, I don't know if I can, like,
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: he's really good with that puppet.
• 45:37
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: And I was not at first. And then eventually you
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: just sort of learn on the job. But the elapsed
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: time between me auditioning, me getting the part and me
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: going in front of the camera was just like three days.
• 45:50
  Speaker 7: Wow.
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: And it shows. It shows. Yeah. suddenly Crow looks, you know,
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: lifeless where he used to look, you.
• 45:58
  Speaker 6: Know, it kind of still works.
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's, it's, I don't know. But eventually it all
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: factors in. Yeah.
• 46:04
  Speaker 6: But how much of the, the characters were there to
• 46:10
  Speaker 6: begin with? And then how much became you two guys performing?
• 46:14
  Speaker 6: Because I feel like as viewers, you know, I always
• 46:16
  Speaker 6: talk to people and they always seem like they lean
• 46:19
  Speaker 6: one way or the other. Like they're, I'm, you know,
• 46:20
  Speaker 6: team Tom and I'm team Crow. Like, So how much
• 46:24
  Speaker 6: of it became you two guys creating those characters more
• 46:27
  Speaker 6: and more as you did it longer?
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: I think that was just inevitable that that happened. It
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: wasn't necessarily something any of us aimed for, but it
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: was heavily informed by the writing on the show, of course,
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: which was great and predated me as being great. And
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: so I was in really good hands as far as
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: material goes. And I think the one... Besides learning how
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: to technically operate the puppet to be a little more
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: like a little actor, eventually I stopped trying to imitate
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: Trace's voice so much. And we're not so far apart,
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: but it's enough so that if I try to sound
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: like him, it sounds a little less natural. And Mike
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: and Kevin basically said, you can let that go and
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: just be funny on your own terms. Yeah. That's when
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: I think he started sounding a little more New York-y,
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: and people were like, oh, he's turned mean.
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: It's like, well.
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: That's your association with New York, huh?
• 47:24
  Speaker 6: I think, I don't know. It was, yeah, I always
• 47:26
  Speaker 6: connected more with Crow. Just watching it, I was like,
• 47:29
  Speaker 6: his smart-ass comments matched a little closer to my smart-ass comments.
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: Tom Servo, especially through Kevin Murphy, was hilarious because Kevin
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: is a really large guy, and Servo's a little fireplug.
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: And so you had this sort of big barrel chested
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: voice coming out of this little guy who was all
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: puffed up about himself. So I think that just worked
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: so well.
• 47:54
  Speaker 6: It's a great, yeah, it's a great dynamic what those
• 47:56
  Speaker 6: two characters became. And then that, that, I think that's
• 48:00
  Speaker 6: the thing that's become so amazing over the years. And
• 48:02
  Speaker 6: I'm assuming you've seen it time and time again, like
• 48:05
  Speaker 6: how connected people got to not just those characters, but, but,
• 48:10
  Speaker 6: you know, Joel and Mike and like the entire process
• 48:13
  Speaker 6: because it, Because the way it's set up, it's not
• 48:16
  Speaker 6: just sitting down and watching a movie. It's for people
• 48:19
  Speaker 6: who didn't have any friends to sit down and watch
• 48:21
  Speaker 6: a movie with. And it gave you this weird little community,
• 48:24
  Speaker 6: even if it was one-sided. Like, it gave you, like,
• 48:27
  Speaker 6: you weren't sitting there by yourself making fun of things.
• 48:30
  Speaker 6: It is a weird connection that, like, I don't know
• 48:32
  Speaker 6: if things had done before. Especially not sitting at home
• 48:36
  Speaker 6: doing it like that.
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a real, I don't know, kismet of timing,
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: that show. And a whole... bunch of different ways like
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: the cable the way cable tv was working at the
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: time there was a real need for a certain block
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: of programming to be filled yeah i mean this was
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: a little cable access show from outside of minneapolis and
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: it became a national phenomenon which is just and and
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: then the the internet was kind of starting to churn
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: up so all the nerds were in contact with each
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: other suddenly yeah And I say that lovingly because without them,
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: we wouldn't be. And so it was great. So, yeah,
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: it was very cool. And we have amazing fans that
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: still kind of are around and sustain our different projects. And,
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: you know, we get to meet with them and they're
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: really awesome people.
• 49:31
  Speaker 6: It did create a weird... family kind of thing that
• 49:35
  Speaker 6: even you know even without you guys involved when somebody
• 49:38
  Speaker 6: who's into mystery science theater runs into somebody else and
• 49:40
  Speaker 6: you find that thing in common it's just this instant
• 49:44
  Speaker 6: connection that like you have this like years and years
• 49:47
  Speaker 6: of history together kind of even though you may have
• 49:50
  Speaker 6: been on different ends of the country yeah it's just
• 49:53
  Speaker 6: a weird fandom connection that that i think is pretty
• 49:56
  Speaker 6: great but well that's that's part of what i think
• 49:59
  Speaker 6: has become i feel like even as silly as you
• 50:02
  Speaker 6: guys would take it sometimes, I think it also was
• 50:05
  Speaker 6: sort of that green light of discussing film is not,
• 50:10
  Speaker 6: not a waste of time. Like I think even for, for,
• 50:12
  Speaker 6: for comedy purposes, it still makes it, it gives it
• 50:16
  Speaker 6: sort of a bigger, a bigger realm. It makes it
• 50:19
  Speaker 6: sort of an important thing. So that's, as I've gone
• 50:22
  Speaker 6: on with this, I felt like that's, that's kind of
• 50:25
  Speaker 6: important is just the discussions that we get into and
• 50:28
  Speaker 6: the people you run into and the different, perspectives that
• 50:32
  Speaker 6: you get from people just discussing films so again i
• 50:35
  Speaker 6: think part of it is kind of rooted in that
• 50:37
  Speaker 6: too so with that we can go to the movie if.
• 50:40
  Speaker 3: You'd like it's time for sofa theater.
• 51:06
  Speaker 6: What is that, cuz?
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: That's an alien, bruv.
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: Believe it.
• 51:09
  Speaker 7: When I landed in the wrong place, though, you get
• 51:10
  Speaker 7: the wrong place.
• 51:13
  Speaker 9: Well, lads, we discovered a species hitherto unknown to science.
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: He kicked his head in.
• 51:20
  Speaker 11: Yo, check it.
• 51:21
  Speaker 7: Morph. Morph what?
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: Them tings.
• 51:23
  Speaker 6: Lovely fireworks.
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: Mommy, it's an alien invasion.
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: Of course it is.
• 51:27
  Speaker 11: I'm killing them.
• 51:28
  Speaker 6: I'm killing them straight. Let's get tooled up, lads.
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: Quite sweet, really, aren't they?
• 51:36
  Speaker 7: That looks triple disaster. Right now, I feel like going home,
• 51:40
  Speaker 7: locking my door, and playing FIFA.
• 51:42
  Speaker 6: What were those things?
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: I'm thinking probably aliens.
• 51:46
  Speaker 6: What kind of alien would invade some council estate in
• 51:49
  Speaker 6: South London?
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: One that's looking for a fight.
• 51:58
  Speaker 8: What is that?
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: I'm getting lessons for Christmas.
• 52:08
  Speaker 10: I've got no credit.
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: I've got one text left.
• 52:10
  Speaker 4: This is too much madness to explain in one text.
• 52:15
  Speaker 8: You have to call the police.
• 52:17
  Speaker 7: You'd be better off calling the Ghostbusters, love.
• 52:21
  Speaker 6: What's wrong with you, man? You've got tools.
• 52:23
  Speaker 7: Jesus, he looks about six. I'm nine and a half.
• 52:26
  Speaker 6: We need to get off the streets, back in the block.
• 52:43
  Speaker 7: Good luck.
• 52:43
  Speaker 11: Run away, run away.
• 52:43
  Speaker 4: I'll attack.
• 52:44
  Speaker 5: Run away, run away.
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: You'll change yourself.
• 52:45
  Speaker 7: Run away, run away.
• 52:48
  Speaker 11: I'll attack, I'll attack, I'll attack, I'll attack. Run away,
• 53:11
  Speaker 11: run away.
• 53:30
  Speaker 6: I do kind of like to get other people to
• 53:33
  Speaker 6: choose films and see what you like and then what
• 53:36
  Speaker 6: you like about it. And I've got the little rundown
• 53:39
  Speaker 6: here for this week's film. All right, so this week's
• 53:42
  Speaker 6: Sofa Theater feature is Attack the Block. The year is 2011.
• 53:45
  Speaker 6: The director is Joe Cornish, and the plot, according to IMDb,
• 53:50
  Speaker 6: and for once is simple and very accurate. Normally it's
• 53:54
  Speaker 6: way off, but this one's super simple and accurate. A
• 53:57
  Speaker 6: teen gang in South London defend their block from an
• 53:59
  Speaker 6: alien invasion. I don't think you can get more direct
• 54:02
  Speaker 6: than that one, so.
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's right on the money.
• 54:05
  Speaker 6: Spoiler alert, I am sure we will ruin this for you.
• 54:08
  Speaker 6: I would hope by now you've seen it. If not,
• 54:10
  Speaker 6: go watch it, so. That having been said, what led
• 54:14
  Speaker 6: you to this movie? What connected you to it enough
• 54:18
  Speaker 6: to be like, that's the one I want to talk about?
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember it taking me by surprise when it
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: came out. And I just heard a couple of friends
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: of mine recommend it just very enthusiastically. I didn't see
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: a lot of hype for it anywhere. It seemed like
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: you had to really look for it. And I loved it.
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: And I think it is connected to that IMDb description
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: in a way. It is really tight.
• 54:43
  Speaker 6: I think the thing that I was trying to think
• 54:46
  Speaker 6: how I first remembered it, and I think the first
• 54:48
  Speaker 6: thing I remembered was the Nick Frost connection. Because I
• 54:51
  Speaker 6: think it was coming off that wave of all the
• 54:56
  Speaker 6: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost projects. And so I think just
• 55:00
  Speaker 6: that he was involved, but it was initially like, well,
• 55:03
  Speaker 6: Simon Pegg's not in this. So it was almost getting
• 55:06
  Speaker 6: this backhanded, like, well, it looks really cool, but Simon
• 55:09
  Speaker 6: Pegg's not involved. So I kind of remember hearing that
• 55:12
  Speaker 6: almost immediately. It's like, well, this is this thing that
• 55:14
  Speaker 6: Nick Frost is in. And then barely heard the plot, really.
• 55:18
  Speaker 6: It was just kind of like knowing that this was
• 55:21
  Speaker 6: part of the... thing that probably also got it you
• 55:24
  Speaker 6: know bankrolled and got it going was he was certainly
• 55:26
  Speaker 6: the most maybe at the time only recognizable person in
• 55:30
  Speaker 6: the movie so it's yeah I think that kind of
• 55:33
  Speaker 6: kind of got it rolling and maybe made a few
• 55:35
  Speaker 6: because that's again what I think made it stick in
• 55:38
  Speaker 6: my head that I went later and went oh I
• 55:40
  Speaker 6: do need to see that I remember hearing about that
• 55:42
  Speaker 6: one so.
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah I think when it was recommended to me that
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: Nick Frost was the only element in it that I
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: had heard of in any way um but Interestingly, since then,
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: I mean, the real star of the movie, John Boyega,
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: of course, is Finn in Star Wars.
• 55:59
  Speaker 6: Going to be the biggest star in the world.
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and the new Doctor Who, Jodie Whittaker, is also
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: in it.
• 56:06
  Speaker 6: And then Dennis. Dennis is on, what is that show?
• 56:13
  Speaker 6: Edge of Tomorrow. He's the new Firestorm. He's the half
• 56:17
  Speaker 6: of Firestorm.
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's great.
• 56:19
  Speaker 6: He's grown up a little bit now. He's kind of
• 56:21
  Speaker 6: a buff superhero guy now.
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he looked like a little kid then.
• 56:24
  Speaker 6: I feel like he's going to, but it was, yeah,
• 56:26
  Speaker 6: it's been a little while. I don't think I've been
• 56:28
  Speaker 6: watching any of those shows since I'd seen it last.
• 56:30
  Speaker 6: And I just get there and I'm like, wait, what?
• 56:33
  Speaker 6: He looks really familiar. And like within two seconds, I
• 56:35
  Speaker 6: was just like, oh, it's just a little bit younger Firestorm.
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 56:39
  Speaker 6: Yeah, everybody kind of hit when they came out of this.
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and John Boyega is playing, I mean, they even
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: say this in the movie, that he looks old for
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: his age. I'm sure he was older than the character
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: he was playing, but he's supposed to be a 15-year-old,
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: and he's plausibly that.
• 56:53
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you do kind of buy him, especially you get
• 56:56
  Speaker 6: further and further in. It works kind of great, because
• 57:00
  Speaker 6: we come into it from this, like, we don't know who,
• 57:02
  Speaker 6: all you see are their eyes, you don't know if
• 57:04
  Speaker 6: they're kids, you don't know who these menacing characters are.
• 57:07
  Speaker 6: So we assume these are the bad guys in the
• 57:09
  Speaker 6: movie for a while. And by the time we see that, oh, well,
• 57:13
  Speaker 6: they're kind of kids, and then the more and more
• 57:15
  Speaker 6: the movie goes on, you're like, no, these are kids.
• 57:18
  Speaker 6: They may still be living a rough life, but they're
• 57:21
  Speaker 6: kids through and through.
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. And they are presented kind of, they are the
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: bad guys in a way in the beginning, not to
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: spoil it, but they're not, it's not Spielberg kids. They're tough.
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: um little you know budding criminals basically.
• 57:41
  Speaker 6: It's it's and again that's what i was saying earlier
• 57:43
  Speaker 6: with the neighborhood thing this is so much watching it
• 57:46
  Speaker 6: again this time i'm like that almost becomes so much
• 57:49
  Speaker 6: a part of this movie it because it is the
• 57:51
  Speaker 6: block and it's all centered around that little neighborhood the
• 57:55
  Speaker 6: neighborhood the way that it functions the way that it
• 57:58
  Speaker 6: runs itself they take care of their own they take
• 58:00
  Speaker 6: care of the problems themselves like it is sort of
• 58:04
  Speaker 6: that same thing we were talking about earlier that like
• 58:06
  Speaker 6: it's its own little world. And because of that, that's also,
• 58:09
  Speaker 6: I think why these kids are the way they are.
• 58:11
  Speaker 6: It's like, they have grown up in the middle of this.
• 58:14
  Speaker 6: So they might be great kids at heart and in
• 58:18
  Speaker 6: a different set of circumstances would probably be, you know,
• 58:20
  Speaker 6: going to prep school right now, but they're thugs because
• 58:23
  Speaker 6: they grew up in this little world. And that's the
• 58:25
  Speaker 6: rules are, this is what you do when you hit,
• 58:27
  Speaker 6: you know, 15, go out and start, you know, robbing people. Like,
• 58:30
  Speaker 6: so it is one of those, you see, As they
• 58:33
  Speaker 6: go further on, they are more than that, and they
• 58:36
  Speaker 6: want to be more than that as they can actually
• 58:39
  Speaker 6: be heroic and do things that kind of help people.
• 58:43
  Speaker 6: It is an interesting study.
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: I also love from the get-go in the movie when
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: they actually discover that there's an alien who invaded, their
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: first instinct is to... Fuck it up, basically. Beat his ass.
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: Beat his ass. They pursue it.
• 58:59
  Speaker 6: Again, I see guys like that in general. I know
• 59:01
  Speaker 6: people that are like that. They're like, you just cut
• 59:04
  Speaker 6: them off in traffic and they're ready to kick your ass.
• 59:07
  Speaker 6: And like watching John's like portrayal of like, Oh no,
• 59:12
  Speaker 6: this claw mark on my face. No, I at your ass.
• 59:15
  Speaker 6: So I'm like, it is that kind of guy. Like
• 59:17
  Speaker 6: if you are that a guy that just does not
• 59:19
  Speaker 6: take shit off of people, like alien or not, it
• 59:22
  Speaker 6: still kicks in. And like, that's, that's kind of true.
• 59:25
  Speaker 6: I feel like.
• 59:26
  Speaker 2: It was also cool to see John Boyega, um, You know,
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: in his character of Finn in Star Wars, he was
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: sort of a blank slate. I mean, he was obviously
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: a talented guy.
• 59:37
  Speaker 6: He's so likable.
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: Charismatic.
• 59:39
  Speaker 6: There's no flaws to him, really.
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: No flaws. Maybe just a little bit too naive or something.
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: But here he was a hardened kid. And it's like, oh,
• 59:48
  Speaker 2: you know, that's... It's just a different... He's actually more
• 59:52
  Speaker 2: of an adult as a 15-year-old in this than.
• 59:56
  Speaker 6: in the and pretty layered as you again as you
• 59:59
  Speaker 6: get and all the kids kind of like all of
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 6: the performances are pretty great i agree but you get
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 6: those kids that are like the further and further in
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 6: you go the more you you do see not only
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 6: are they just kids but they are kids that probably
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 6: do want to do other things with their life and
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 6: like you know have other things going on when you
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 6: see them with the girls and you see them still
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 6: kind of responding like you know teenage boys around teenage
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 6: girls like yeah You get these weird dynamics that kick
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 6: in that, again, a lesser written film and a lesser
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 6: directed film and acted, like, would all just kind of
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 6: phone that stuff in and it would just be a circumstance.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 6: But you get into that room with them and, like,
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 6: everybody is a character. Everybody relates like real people. Like,
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 6: that part is kind of surprising as I revisit it. Yeah,
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 6: it's pretty impressive.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: It's subtle. And the other thing that I loved about
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: it is that the relationships are deftly... uh, you sketched
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: out through action. Yeah. Like nobody sits down and has
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 2: a monologue and explains their entire backstory.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 6: Well, and we are immediately thrown into it. Like we
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 6: see from like the get go, the thing hits the
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 6: ground and they're just like, let's go. And from that
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 6: point on, like they're kicking its ass and they're dragging
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 6: it back. They're getting in another fight with the drug dealers.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 6: Like it never takes a big long break. Like it's
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 6: constant action.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: I love that about it. And it's 88 minutes. I
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: just checked and it's like, oh my God, thank you.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: Like it, there's not a lot of padding on this.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 6: It's a lot of two and a half, three hour
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 6: movies these days.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 6: Yeah. It's, it is like, again, just impressive pacing as
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 6: you go through. That's, that's hard to balance out. So
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 6: like the fact that he knew what he wanted to
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 6: make and just admit like, well, it's just not, it's
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 6: been 15 minutes introducing you to these guys. Let's cut
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 6: to the action and their actions will be the description
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 6: of who they are. It's, yeah, it's, it's really kind of, again,
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 6: for a director who really hadn't done a feature, like
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 6: he'd done TV work before, but he had such a
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 6: great concept of like what he wanted to do right
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 6: off the bat and capture with this.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 2: One of the reasons that felt like, uh, just emotionally
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 2: connect or even like socially connected at this point, it's
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: not preachy in any way, but it does have, um,
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: a background in just the effects of ghettoization and poverty
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: and all that. And one of the things that really
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 2: made it feel connected right now is all the natural
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 2: disasters and hurricanes we've had recently where you know that
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: people have been kind of left on their own for
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: a bit, like what's happening in Puerto Rico right now
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: as we record this. Like these creatures land in the
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 2: neighborhood and there's no help.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 2: Like, what help there is is basically harmful because they're
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 2: blaming the kids for all the stuff.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 6: I kind of like that. And again, it's one of those,
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 6: the more I've watched it, and it is funny because
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 6: it's not that old a movie, but I was sitting
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 6: down and I'm like, this is at least the third
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 6: time I've watched it. It's become, like, one of my
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 6: favorite recent films. And again, I keep finding, like, there
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 6: is something interesting about the police aspect. Like, you do
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 6: get that these ghetto kids, like, By the time you
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 6: get to the end and they go running in, I
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 6: think he specifically says something like, the girl's like, is
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 6: it those monsters? And the kid looks up and he's like, well,
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 6: sort of. And it's the cops rolling in. And I'm like,
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 6: the fact that these ghetto kids, the cops are equally
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 6: as much a destructive force to their lives as aliens
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 6: from another planet that want to rip them apart. It's
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 6: not heavy handed, but it is a moment of like, yeah,
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 6: this is my life every day.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: Aliens or not, me.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 6: Dealing with, you know, what the cops are going to
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 6: do to me, or me, you know, dealing with what
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 6: other people immediately think of me when they look at me.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 6: It's like, that's all kind of factored in there, really
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 6: kind of subtle.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 2: It's, as you say, layered, too, because in the opening
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 2: beats of the movie, when Jodie Whittaker's character, a nursing
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 2: student or something like that, is mugged by these kids. Spoiler, sorry.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 6: I threw it out there.
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 2: Okay. Yeah. you know, you're really on her side.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 6: It's just like, it feels, you know, and it's... That
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 6: moment when they just appear around her, and John Boyega's
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 6: a big dude compared to her, and like, it's kind
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 6: of scary.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and they don't mess around either. They're not, it's
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 2: not a sentimental portrait. It's so... It allows for a
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: lot of complexities there.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 6: We're getting rich off that, you know, because we discovered it.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 2: eBay fam.
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 7: Alert the media. Exclusive rights to the highest bidder.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 2: The sun, fam.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 6: The sun believes anything.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 7: No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 8: The sun will just dress it up like one of
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 8: those page three girls, bruv.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 6: You want to call the Guardian, Vlad?
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 7: If it's a proper paper, then people will believe you.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 6: Our tabloids pay more money, bruv.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 8: Can't call the paper. FBI will confiscate it off us.
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 2: FBI?
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 6: This is England, fam. They ain't no FBI. It's Section
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 6: 6 or something.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: We need an expert to verify that thing, you know.
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 6: Hey, look in the yellow pages and look for them.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 2: Like, all those scientists people know about all them meatier things.
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 2: Yellow pages?
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 6: Like what?
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: A for alien?
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 8: Cheers.
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 4: We need a lawyer, boy.
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 6: A manager or something.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 7: Bo Salmon Cow.
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 4: Aliens got talent.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 6: Jokes, man.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 7: Jokes.
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 6: The other thing, and this will be interesting based on
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 6: what you said you latched on to so early on,
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 6: the slang, just dialect and slang in this movie in general.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 6: I remember watching it the first time going, wait, what?
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 6: It takes you a while and maybe never fully get
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 6: on board with the rhythm and the... the terms that
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 6: they're using, but it is, it's so true, I'm assuming.
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 6: Like, even, like, because I did see a little bit of, like,
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 6: talking to the actors, and, like, the director had gone
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 6: so in-depth trying to get into, because, again, he's a
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 6: grown-up at that point, so he really didn't experience that.
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 6: He probably didn't grow up in the ghettos of London,
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 6: so it's, like, he really did research to the point
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 6: that he was throwing out terms and things for the
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 6: kids to say that these 15-year-olds were, like, Wait, okay, what?
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 6: And, like, it was something that they weren't even using,
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 6: but he had already, like, just woven it into this
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 6: world that he created. So the fact that all of
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 6: that is not only so true, I feel like, but
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 6: comes off so natural in these kids and kind of
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 6: reinforces that little world thing. Like, the fact that it
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 6: could be... Granted, they're speaking, in quotes, English, but... It's
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 6: so detached from everything else that it really does. This
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 6: may just be something that exists in this little part
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 6: of London that like in, you know, you go to
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 6: other areas and they have a totally different dialect and
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 6: use different slang. So it's such a reinforced little world
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 6: there that isolates them with that.
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was thinking at some time, a couple of
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 2: points in the film, I was thinking it would really
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 2: be good to have like a, Translation underneath.
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 6: I've actually turned, well, I at least turned on the
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 6: captions sometimes to make sure what I thought they were
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 6: saying was what they were saying. So they do have
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 6: it closed captioned pretty accurately to what they're saying. Now,
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 6: whether or not you then get what they're saying, hopefully
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 6: you kind of follow the slang.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 2: But I remember feeling that with Trainspotting, too, and like
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 2: a lot of Ken Loach films.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 8: Definitely.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 2: It's just like, wow. That is the same language, but
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 2: we're through a thick wall of regional dialects. And it
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 2: also goes a lot faster sometimes.
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 6: You're just like, wait, wait, what did that kid say?
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: Hold on.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 6: It's like they just roll through so much dialogue sometimes
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 6: and so fast and back and forth.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: But you never get, like, you always get the general
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 2: sense of it.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 6: Like, you can kind of, I mean, even if you watch, like,
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 6: a foreign film, you can kind of get the mood
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 6: even if you don't have, you know, if you're not
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 6: watching the subtitles. So it's like, it's kind of that
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 6: same thing. As long as you're along for the ride, like,
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 6: you're always kind of Right there with them each step
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 6: of the way, even if you maybe didn't catch that
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 6: last little comment. Like, they're just, again, it's so natural
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 6: the way they're doing everything that it all kind of fits.
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 6: The other thing I was so taken with, even that
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 6: first time through, is just the creature design.
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 6: So original.
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 6: And that first time through, I was trying to decide
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 6: what it, like, if it was 100% CG or And
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 6: then watching, again, trying to figure out a little behind
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 6: the scenes, there are guys in big furry suits. Like,
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 6: I think they then just massively enhanced it so that
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 6: it does feel, and again, I think that's what I
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 6: liked about it. Like, it felt almost cartoony in a way,
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 6: which I'm like, in this extreme story, like, I kind
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 6: of was okay with that. Like, I liked how almost
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 6: CG and, like, blacker than black, as they said. Like,
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 6: it's so black that it's odd looking and Which is otherworldly. Like,
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 6: that's what you want. And then the blind face, but
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 6: the glowing teeth is, oh, my God, I love that creature.
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, when they first appeared, I was like, well, I
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 2: don't know how to think about this. It seems like
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 2: it's a little too extreme for this movie. But, yeah,
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 2: this is going to be extreme. nerdy. But it reminded
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 2: me of the description of the Balrog in Tolkien.
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 2: Because it's supposed to be like equal parts black, almost
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 2: like invisible blackness. And fire. And these guys were, you know,
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 2: as the guys when they're playing with the corpse of it,
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 2: it's like, man, that is black.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 6: It's blacker than black.
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 2: Just like can't even, just like the death of all
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 2: light in there. And then these glowing fangs and eyes, right?
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 6: Again, they kept saying, they kept referencing how, almost saying
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 6: that they were blind. So I don't know if everything
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 6: that they did was, because even when she like sneaks
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 6: through the room, it's like they don't see her. So
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 6: I don't know if everything was based on smell and pheromones.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 2: I think it was the pheromone base.
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 6: Yeah, so that's why I think she kind of snuck
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 6: through because she didn't have any on her, and they
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 6: just didn't care about her. They were only concerned with
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 6: the pheromone.
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 2: It's funny, when she was doing that, I was thinking,
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 2: she's the next Doctor Who. This feels like a very
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: Doctor Who moment. You learn something technical about the monster.
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 3: Use it against them.
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 2: And I feel like they have actually done that with
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: either Daleks or something like that. Some creature like that.
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 6: It kind of feels like that with so many other, like,
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 6: I've seen several monster type movies or even as, you know,
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 6: mainstream as Jurassic Park. Like when you realize if you
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 6: don't move, he can't see you. So it's right there
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 6: next to you. But if you don't move, you're safe.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 6: So it's kind of that same little dynamic or. What else? Well,
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 6: same thing. Even the kids creeping around in the kitchen
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 6: or when he did it, what were the worlds? He
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 6: did that same robot kind of, don't move, it's right there.
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 6: So it's that weird little monster dynamic.
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 2: It's a trope. Yeah.
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 6: But it always kind of works. If you get the
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 6: creepy factor down, it always kind of gives you the
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 6: right dynamic. But yeah, I loved whatever they did to
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 6: tweak that black and the glowing. Again, I think it
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 6: looked so odd. and otherworldly that it worked for me.
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 6: Like I think some people, it might be a turnoff
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 6: because it's so weird, but I think for the weird
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 6: story they're telling, I kind of liked it.
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree. And it wasn't so elaborate that you
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 2: had to, you know, second guess the mechanics of the monsters.
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 2: They were basically just big gorillas with.
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 11: Teeth.
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 6: Alien gorilla wolf motherfuckers is what they kept, like multiple.
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 6: Once one person said it, they all kept describing it
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 6: that way. And I'm like, yeah, yeah.
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 2: That's another thing that I want to mention before we
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 2: go is that it actually is pretty funny.
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 6: Yeah, genuinely.
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 2: That's easy to undersell here in all my sociological description. But,
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, Nick Frost, of course, is playing
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 2: a comic point man there as the sort of larded
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 2: drug dealer up in the upper block.
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 3: If anything, he's almost.
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 6: under you like i was just kind of by the
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 6: end i'm like oh yeah he is in this like
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 6: he's so not impressive compared to all the rest of
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 6: the i'm like i kind of expected a little more out.
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 2: Of yeah i think i almost felt like he did
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 2: it as a favor to get made or something which he.
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 6: Might have i mean again he's just sort of there
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 6: so it might have been that well my name's attached
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 6: so now you can get yeah.
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 2: But just the dynamics between the kids is funny and
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 2: even when it gets bloody and sort of tragic It's
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 2: pretty witty, how it goes about itself.
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 6: But also doesn't, again, sometimes it gets so like, again,
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 6: dealing with super mainstream films and kind of having to
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 6: please everyone. It's so rare that you see somebody willing
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 6: to just sort of off one of their characters, but
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 6: especially kids. So the fact that several of our characters
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 6: get taken out in the process of this, and I'm like,
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 6: that's a gutsy move as like the screenwriter to be like, And.
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 2: Not just, you know, again, spoiler alert, but not just
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 2: the kid, like, you deserve it kids.
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 6: Yeah, the ones that are being heroic, trying to help people.
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 6: So it's, yeah, it isn't like they just take out
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 6: the bad guys. Like, some of our beloved crew do
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 6: not make it. And that's, yeah, that's something you don't
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 6: always see, especially when it's a bunch of kids. Like,
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 6: it's hard to off kids in a story. Yeah.
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 2: Spielberg doesn't do it as a rule.
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's one of those things you rarely see. That's
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 6: always been something that I'm like, that's a bold move.
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 2: Try that, stranger thing.
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 6: Yeah, if you bother to take out one of them, just...
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 6: Why did the one girl get sacked? She wasn't cool,
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 6: so she got to die. Other than that, Barb gets
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 6: taken out, but everybody else, all the other kids, we'll
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 6: bring you back from the other side. It's okay. But yeah,
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 6: I thought that was sort of a really... a bold
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 6: move on his part as screenwriter too.
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 2: The other, just one last thing for me is that
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 2: I think it was cool where they left it off.
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 2: Because there wasn't a giant resolution. There was just enough
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 2: of a resolution to almost reconcile the lines that the
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 2: movie started with, which was basically the two main characters,
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 2: which is Jodie Whittaker and John Boyega's character, who meet
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 2: in very, you know, a very nasty circumstances with her
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 2: as a victim of her his crime and that it
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 2: just adds a note of reconciliation to that after they've
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 2: helped defeat the creatures together but you don't know where
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 2: it's gonna go for all we know john john's character
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 2: is goes to jail and.
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 6: Gets everything pinned on him like it could but it
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 6: is it is also that like you really do see
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 6: this character arc within a night you know you see
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 6: this guy go from i'm trapped in this i'm probably
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 6: gonna end up dealing drugs because immediately that's what happens
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 6: to him So, like, he's going to get thrown even
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 6: deeper into that life. And then within the span of
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 6: this night, he realizes he's better than that. He can
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 6: do more than that. He can help other people. Like,
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 6: he takes this big heroic journey in the span of
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 6: one night that, like, you realize... Even sitting in that
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 6: cop car, like, he's a different person now. Absolutely. And
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 6: he's not going to go back to that life. Like,
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 6: he's going to be this new, you know, person that
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 6: stepped up when he needed to.
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 2: Also, the reveal of how he lives.
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 6: The fact that he is a kid.
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 2: He's a kid and he's totally on his own with some, like,
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 2: fly-by-night uncle who probably deals drugs and comes and goes.
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 2: You know, but they don't talk about it. Like they
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 2: don't have a 10 minute scene talking about it. They
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 2: just show it and move on.
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 6: It's her kind of, it's the reveal for the audience
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 6: and her because she's just like, how old are you?
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 6: Like she assumed he's so much older than that. So
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 6: once she gets in there and let's see this little
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 6: kid's room and it's just like, Oh my God, I've
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 6: been dealing with this kid all night and didn't realize it.
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 6: Like it's, yeah, it's, it's, it's just really well put together.
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 6: And it did make me want to see, cause I
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 6: even looked, he hasn't, he hasn't directed anything. Joe Cornish
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 6: hasn't done anything else as a feature. He's again, I
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 6: think did an offshoot or two TV wise and it's
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 6: definitely written. He's, he's, uh, what he wrote, uh, Ant-Man
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 6: and I think, uh, Adventures of Tintin. He came in
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 6: as a screenwriter, so he's definitely finding, you know, some
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 6: success as a screenwriter, not necessarily, Tintin didn't go over
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 6: well but I'm sure that was a nice paycheck so
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 6: like but yeah he's just now in 2018 coming back
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 6: to do a new movie and about a bunch of
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 6: kids so I'm like I'm kind of interested to see
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 6: it's I think a little more of a medieval story
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 6: so I don't know if it's I don't know if
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 6: it's set in that time and in that time, like mindset.
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 2: Of that time period.
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 6: Or if, yeah, or if it's more of like a
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 6: modernized kids looking at a weird medieval situation. So I, yeah,
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 6: I just sort of briefly saw the IMDb and I'm like,
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 6: all right, him dealing with a group of kids again.
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 6: Like I'm on board with that. So I do kind
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 6: of want to see where he goes from here. Cause
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 6: I think this is surprisingly masterfully directed for somebody who
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 6: hadn't done a feature.
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 6: If that's all on the movie, um, I did still
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 6: want to see what, cause you've had so many offshoots
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 6: of that, you know, of the original mystery science theater
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 6: project and then riff tracks and so many other things
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 6: over the years. So I guess where have you landed now?
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 6: And then how weird was it? Did you ever think
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 6: the original idea of mystery science theater would ever fight
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 6: its way back to existence? Cause now it's sort of
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 6: a thing again.
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah.
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 2: Um, Well, yeah, right now we're doing Mike Nelson and
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 2: Kevin Murphy and I are doing Riff Tracks, which is
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 2: definitely an offshoot of Mystery Science Theater 3000 without a
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 2: lot of the backstory. Not saying that that was bad.
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 2: It's just easier to do the movie commentary as live
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 2: shows and stuff like that.
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 6: I really am impressed with the live simulcast idea because
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 6: you've been doing them all in Nashville, haven't you? Most
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 6: of them, yeah.
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 2: And the reason for that is just we have a
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 2: big crew down there that we work with and a
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 2: theater that really works for us.
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 6: Because I've seen several of those as they were happening
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 6: and I'm like, that's kind of a cool idea. It's
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 6: one I feel like more people should find a way
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 6: to make again, as we're losing more and more people
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 6: going to the theater, like it really would be interesting
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 6: to use technology to make it more of an event,
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 6: to have some reason to go back to the theater
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 6: that wasn't just, oh, I could sit at home and
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 6: watch this later. Like it is a weird live connection,
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 6: even though you're sitting in totally different cities.
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's really cool because we, you know, still most
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 2: of our stuff is done through our website and just
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 2: sort of released digitally. But at least four times a year,
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 2: We do these live shows in usually Nashville, although we've
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 2: done them elsewhere here and there. And they're simulcast all
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 2: over the country, like over 700 theaters usually, and you
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 2: can usually find one near you. So the fans of
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 2: Riff Tracks and Mystery Science Theater find each other in
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 2: the area and make a little tailgate of it. And
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 2: we're doing it in front of a live couple of
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 2: hundred people in nashville and props feels great what's.
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 6: That occasionally props yeah.
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 5: It does have a live show feel to it yeah
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 5: i like that because yeah you you don't Again, it's
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 5: almost that same subsection, because, yeah, we were talking about
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 5: Barry Boswick here, that Rocky Horror feeling.
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah, yeah. Like, you've got a movie going on,
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 6: but you also have guys in there doing a stage show,
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 6: kind of, so it does have a little bit of
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 6: that appeal to it.
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 2: It's been funny hanging out with Barry Boswick in the
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 2: green room a little bit, or the hospitality suite. He's
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 2: such an old gentleman. Mm-hmm. But I don't have the
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 2: heart to tell him that we did a movie of
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 2: his not too long ago, Megaforce. I don't know if
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 2: you know it. It's the cheesiest 80s movie ever.
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 7: I mean, he.
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 6: Definitely was a working actor for quite a while.
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 6: So I'm sure he realizes they can't all get knocked
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 6: out of the park.
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 6: But yeah, so is that the main focus, or do
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 6: you have other stuff you're working on?
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 2: I have a couple of other things. I wrote a
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 2: comic book not too long ago that is sort of
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 2: a retcon of Christmas. It's sort of a Christmas comic
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 2: book with superheroes. It's the... The icons of Christmas sort
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 2: of reimagined as a superhero team. It's very silly.
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 3: Interesting, yeah.
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 6: That's a different take on it. But everybody loves holiday films.
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 6: You need to make this into a giant budget movie.
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 2: That's all, yep. I guess I'll just agree to that.
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 6: I mean, once it's a comic book, you're halfway there, right?
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 6: That's how it works anymore. It's like, just write a
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 6: graphic novel and we get this greenlit.
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 2: I gotta find a way to get Batman in there.
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 2: And I'm going back to my kind of start, and
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 2: I'm writing a play these days.
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 2: So, yeah, that's what I'm doing. Definitely.
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 6: Well, is there a good place? Do you want to
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 6: send people still down the riff tracks? Or what's the
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 6: best place to keep up with what you guys have
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 6: in the works?
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 2: Definitely rifftracks.com. And for me, probably Twitter, at Bill Corbett.
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 10: If that is it.
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 6: Thank you for being on the show.
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 2: It was a pleasure. Thanks. Nice chatting with you.
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 6: Thank you for being on.
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 1: You know what? I'm surprised I didn't see more Mystery
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 1: Science Theater stuff here this year.
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 6: I was kind of surprised, actually.
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 7: No cosplay of any of them? No!
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 6: Well, and even, like, posters. That's the thing.
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 1: Oh, your buddy had one poster. Okay, your buddy that...
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: That we say hi to every time we go in there.
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: Happy on 5. No, no, not him. The other one.
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 6: Which one?
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 1: Glasses.
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 6: Joel?
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 2: Hat.
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 6: Oh, Joel.
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: Yes, Joel.
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 6: Joel Robinson.
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Joel. Joel, he had a poster. But it
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: had the entire cast. It had the entire cast on there.
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 1: And then it had all the memorable movie characters. They
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 1: were all sitting in a theater.
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think he might have done that as the
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 6: poster for one of the shows. I feel like.
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's got the new guy.
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 6: I feel like I've seen it as one of the, yeah.
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 1: It's got the new guy Jonah in there, which I'm
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 1: telling you, when I first started watching the new one,
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 1: my kid, she's raised on Mystery Science Theater. So there's
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 1: not a lot of kids nowadays. I guess my kid's
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 1: like 17. So there's not a lot of kids in
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 1: her high school that know about Mystery Science Theater. She
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: talks about it, and they're just kind of like scratching
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 1: their heads.
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 7: It kind of.
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 6: Hit that window yeah it's like everybody I knew that
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 6: was into it was into it like in the 90s
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 6: like the late 90s it hit like you know on
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 6: Comedy Central and then like everybody after that kind of
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 6: for another like 10 years and then it just disappeared
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 6: like it wasn't really like only the hardcore people buying
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 6: the DVDs when they kept.
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: Releasing exactly and we kept watching the DVDs well we
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 1: were watching I'm sorry we were watching the VHS tapes
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 1: because we bought them.
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 6: From Suncoast that's where I got my.
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 1: Mitchell probably bought them from you you probably did and
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 1: uh But, yeah, I mean, we started out watching on
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: Comedy Central, and I think for a while they were
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 1: running them on Sci-Fi Channel.
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 7: Yeah, like the same four episodes over and over.
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: And they were running them on KET at one point.
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 6: Yeah, they were splitting them up into two. We had
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 6: that pretty early on, about the same time they were
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 6: running them on Comedy Central. Public Broadcasting picked them up
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 6: and started splitting them up as the Mystery Science Theater
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 6: Hour or something, and then they were doing the different
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 6: hosts that would introduce it first, which was, I think, still... Mike. Yeah,
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 6: I think it was Mike in a weird old guy
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 6: disguise who was doing this PBS kind of a host
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 6: introducing it beforehand. So it was really weird to see
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 6: that compared to the other one.
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 1: I mean, all of them are good. Joel's my favorite.
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 6: Joel would always be my favorite. I'm still partial. But
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 6: Mike was fun, too.
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 1: But Mike was fun, too. But, I mean, we started
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 1: watching with Jonah Hex, the new guy. And at first,
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 1: you know, what?
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 6: That's a cowboy.
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 1: No, that's his name.
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 7: Jonah Hex.
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 1: Isn't it? I've never watched it. Oh, wait, no, it's Jonah.
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 6: Jonah, what is Jonah's last name?
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 7: Jonah Hex is the movie that had Josh Brolin.
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: Oh, what's his name?
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 7: Josh Brolin and Megan Fox was in a comic book series.
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 1: What was his name was Jonah Hex?
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 2: What's his name?
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 1: Look it up.
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 7: And what's his name?
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 6: Son of TV's Frankenstein.
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 1: Patton Oswalt.
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 1: Kid loves Patton Oswalt.
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 6: Jonah Heston.
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 1: Heston. Heston. Okay, I was close. Hex Heston.
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 6: Charlton Heston.
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 6: Hosted by Charlton Heston.
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 1: Hosted by Charlton Heston.
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 6: Wonders of CGI.
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 1: Okay, whatever. Jonah Heston. Anyways, when we first started watching
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 1: the first episode, I was kind of like, yeah.
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 7: I want to see it hosted by Jonah Heston.
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 1: I was kind of like, I'm not sure, but I'll
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 1: give it a chance because I know how things are
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 1: when you're used to watching something. and they remake it,
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 1: and then you don't want to give it a chance.
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 6: Well, and again, that's just a fanboy kind of a thing. Like, no,
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 6: I never watched that.
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 1: It is, but I had to get past it because
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 1: it's the same creator. It's not like they sold it
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 1: off to Disney and Disney didn't.
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, Joel's still behind it.
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 6: He's been working all these years to find a good
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 6: way to bring it back and, like, revamp it, and
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 6: I don't think he ever wanted to come back as host.
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 6: He just wanted to be, like, kind of producer, behind
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 6: the scenes.
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, and we were.
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 6: It's with his blessing, you know.
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: We were.
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 1: You know, we had a Riff Trax account, so I
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 1: was downloading Riff Trax.
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 7: Which is the only way to watch any of the
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 7: Twilight movies, by the way.
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 1: Really?
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 6: Those are your favorites.
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 1: That's the only way we watch the Twilight movies. And
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 1: the Riff Trax version is awesome. It's great. It makes
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 1: Twilight actually watchable.
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 6: Something needs to.
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God. It's fucking hilarious. But, yeah, we went
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 1: through and watched it. And we actually finished the entire season.
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 1: So me and my daughter sat and watched through all
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 1: of them. Um, and, uh, they were all really good. Uh,
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 1: some of them were better than others, but that's like,
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 1: you know, with most mystery science theater, you have your favorites.
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 6: Your favorites. And sometimes it's just the more outlandish the movie,
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 6: the more fun the whole episode becomes.
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 1: And the sad thing is, is right now, right now
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 1: I can't, I can't remember any of them because they
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 1: don't stick out in my mind. specifically, but I've only
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 1: seen them one time.
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 6: Sorry to say, because you also didn't watch them 48
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 6: times like I did those old ones. Exactly.
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 1: Eegah and Cave Dwellers.
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 6: Overdrawn at the Memory Bank. Overdrawn at the Memory Bank.
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 7: Squirm, was that one?
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 6: Squirm was, yeah. That was in that same little run.
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 6: They looped those two down.
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 1: Well, Cave Dwellers we had, and we watched that between
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 1: Cave Dwellers and Eegah in the movie.
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I've got the movie. I love the movie, too.
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 6: It makes it. Hard to imagine that the old way.
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 6: And even though it is sort of a universal classic,
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 6: it still gets thrown in there with a lot of those.
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 3: Oh, it's awesome, though.
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I actually like.
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 6: It as a movie. The funny thing is... It's so
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 6: funny to watch it now, having loved the Mystery Science
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 6: Theater version.
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, when we went and saw it in
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 1: the theater, I saw it in the theater and I
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 1: was like, God, this isn't really that funny. And then
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 1: when it came out on VHS... I bought it on
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 1: VHS and went back and watched it again and was like, God,
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: this is fucking hilarious. I don't know why, when I
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 1: was in the theater, I didn't think it was funny.
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 7: Maybe you weren't in a good mood. Sometimes it's just
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 7: not what mood you're in. That's why the movie's good
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 7: or bad.
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was still with my ex-wife, so yeah.
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 7: That would have ruined it.
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 1: That would have ruined it. So, but, you know, either way. Yeah,
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 1: it was a lot funnier when we actually got it
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 1: on VHS.
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 6: I think some of those also work better than... the
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 6: more you... Again, that's how you end up kind of
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 6: loving TV series, because you end up looping those same
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 6: episodes over and over.
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 7: And I think it's true with your.
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 6: Favorite movies, too. It's like, if you watch them over
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 6: and over and over again, they kind of grow on
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 6: you in a way that one time through, you never
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 6: get attached to it the way that something that you
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 6: just return to on a regular basis. It is weird.
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 6: And I think some comedy just works better that way.
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 6: It needs a couple of times... Maybe many times to
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 6: kind of grow on you a little bit.
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 7: Seriously, dude, if you're going to wear the chain mail,
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 7: carry a sword, don't wear fucking tennis shoes.
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 1: Dude, you are in my fucking mind. Because that is
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 1: exactly what I was about to say. I'm like watching.
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 1: I'm like, if you've spent the money on the chain mail,
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 1: get you some fucking boots. Don't wear your fucking Asics
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 1: or whatever he's wearing. Little black Dr. Scholls with his
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 1: little white socks. It's like, come on, man. It's like.
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 1: It's like the chicks you see at the horror conventions
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 1: that wear the corset and the black hair and the
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 1: eye makeup and then they wear mom jeans and flip-flops.
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 1: Remember mom jeans?
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  Speaker 6: They're just showing off what they feel is important.
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. Nobody looks at me from the waist down anyway,
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 1: so just look at these.
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  Speaker 6: Much like that lady inside when I said earlier, when
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 6: you can use that area as a shelf for your drink,
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 6: that's not right. That's not how you're supposed to. You're
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 6: not supposed to hoist things up that high.
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  Speaker 7: It seems painful.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Hers was, it looked like not only was it cutting
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 6: off circulation, but it just- How do you breathe? Things
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 6: were not supposed to be the places.
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 1: That they were shoved. They were elevated.
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 6: It's just, it was elevated at an odd level.
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 1: They were horizontal.
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 7: She could have licked food off of them.
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 6: I mean, that's, again, geeks would have probably given her
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 6: some money for that if that's what she's into.
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 7: You gotta pay extra for that. We forgot to say
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 7: what else was on there.
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 2: What?
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 1: It was a wolf.
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 6: A wolf?
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 7: A wolf. A real live wolf? Oh, yeah.
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 6: Yeah. They were hiding him, though.
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 7: I was excited about the wolf. The wolf was pretty awesome.
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 1: Because it's not my wolf.
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 7: But it's a wolf.
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  Speaker 11: I know.
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 6: We were very close to a wolf.
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 7: I saw him with my eyes. He saw me. He
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 7: made eye contact.
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 1: He was looking at me.
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 6: He was like, sup?
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 7: No, he wasn't. Quit taking all my eye contact.
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 1: He gave you the head nod. He was looking at me. Yeah,
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 1: he gave me the bro nod.
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 6: He gave you the wolf code.
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 1: He was like, sup? I was like, wolf back.
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 7: Why are you stealing my thunder?
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 1: That's what I do.
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 7: I know. You steal my thunder and poop on my parade.
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 7: That's what you do.
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 2: And I steal it.
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 1: In my pocket poop on it poop on it you're.
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 7: So fucking weird.
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 6: So all that having been said thank you to Bill
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 6: for sitting in with us and for joining us in
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 6: this week's movie so go support him in everything he
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 6: does yes and all MST related projects as far as.
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 1: I'm concerned yes watch the new one it's good on Netflix.
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 7: Plug plug.
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 5: Huh?
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 7: Plug plug.
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 2: Plug plug.
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 1: I thought you said butt plug. What does that have
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 1: to do with Netflix?
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 6: That's a different show. We can go to those shows
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 6: if you want, but it's going to be a very
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 6: different episode. So also, a big thank you to Scarefest
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 6: for letting us come and be part of the show.
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 6: This is, once again, I'm still thinking we've been here
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 6: every year, so this is one of our favorite conventions.
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 1: We love being.
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 6: Part of this, so a big thank you to them.
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 6: So anyway, go to thescarefest.com and prepare for next year because, again,
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 6: it's been awesome every year. We're here every year. We're
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 6: telling you firsthand it's cool. It is.
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 7: But if it sucks next year, don't blame us.
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 6: No, no, no, no.
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 1: It's a good convention. I mean, it does seem like
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 1: every year we come here, it's a good convention. It's
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 1: not overly packed. for you people who don't like other people,
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 1: like me. It's not overly packed, so you don't have
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 1: people bumping into you constantly.
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 6: There's tons of people. It's just a lot of space.
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 6: Unlike many places, they plan ahead and put it in
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 6: a big enough space to house all of this and
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 6: all the people. I think other conventions should learn from that.
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. And here's a convention tip somebody told me,
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 1: and I use it today and actually work. If you
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 1: don't want to talk to anybody, like, you know, you're
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 1: just like really anti-social and you don't want to talk
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 1: to anybody, just put headphones in. And you don't even
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 1: have to have any music in there.
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 6: They're just shoved in your pocket.
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 1: And then, yeah, just shove them in your ears and
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 1: then nobody talks to you. It's great.
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 7: I like how you didn't share this with me beforehand.
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 6: You were one of the ones who didn't want to
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 6: talk to you.
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 1: We were all wearing headphones.
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 6: You were one of the ones he didn't want to
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 6: talk to.
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 7: Everybody could have just talked to Brian. You didn't have
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 7: to tell Brian, but you could have told me.
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 1: See, I didn't get any flyers for stuff.
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 2: Like the.
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 1: Attic of Doom.
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 7: I found $ 10 today.
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 6: You better not say that. Somebody will call me like,
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 6: I dropped $ 10. That's mine. They'll be emailing us in.
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 1: No, they won't.
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 6: I got a zombie. It is free. You got a zombie?
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 7: This guy right here.
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 1: Oh, you did.
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 7: Oh, yeah.
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 1: I got a bat ring.
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 7: It had a headstone in there, too. It was pretty cool.
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 6: I didn't get anything. I thought the zombie was pretty cool.
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 1: I didn't get anything because nobody talked to me.
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 6: I wonder why. I know.
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 1: Nobody talked to me.
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 7: I just saw a thing that says free take one.
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 7: I'm like, fuck yeah, free take one. But it said,
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 7: don't be a jerk. Don't take more than one. I'm like.
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 6: I was so going to be a jerk.
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 7: I was.
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you took all the free things. You got like
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 1: a bracelet. Did you get a bag of seasoning? What
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 1: did you get?
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 6: I was trying to sell you on Sage earlier.
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 1: Somebody handed you a bag.
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 7: It was something that smelled.
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 1: Is it bath salts?
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 7: I'm going to eat it.
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 6: Are we all going to turn into a zombie?
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 1: Are we all going to get fucking high on bath salts?
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 1: Is that what it is?
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 7: It's one of those smelly things. You heat it up
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 7: and it smells.
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 1: It's like bath salts.
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 7: Is that what bath salts are?
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 7: I don't think that's what they are.
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 2: I don't think that's what they are.
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 6: But you will turn into a zombie if you eat
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 6: bath salts.
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 1: I wonder if it's flammable.
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 6: We're going to find out later. Fuck yeah.
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 1: It's like wax.
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 4: Huh?
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 1: Wax burns.
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 6: I was trying to get you to get that whole
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 6: bundle of sage so that way you could like ward
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 6: off evil spirits in your home.
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 7: I got $ 10.
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 1: We don't want to do that. I got a ghost knife.
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 6: What do I need?
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 1: Shit like that.
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 6: Ghost knife. Fucking serious?
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, hell yeah, I got a ghost knife.
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 7: Oh, Lord.
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 6: How does it pass over into the other realm?
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 1: What do you mean, how does it pass over?
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 7: He grabbed it in a dream.
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 2: No.
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 6: Did this involve Freddy Krueger?
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 7: No.
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 1: I bought it, I got it from a Buddhist temple
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 1: in Thailand. It's blessed by, there's not a whole shit
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 1: ton of them, but it's a special knife blessed by
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 1: a special... monk and it has writing and incantations on
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 1: it and stuff like that.
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 1: It's a Buddhist script. It's all kind of crazy stuff.
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 1: For those of you who believe in the paranormal stuff,
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 1: that stuff's a lot... How do you say it? Weird
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 1: shit seems to happen more in areas that still believe
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 1: in in a lot of that stuff. So when I
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 1: was over in Southeast Asia, there's a lot of weird, weird,
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 1: unexplainable shit that I saw, especially at night. And it's
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 1: easy for people to believe in a lot of that stuff. But,
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 1: you know, I mean, I still believe in some of it.
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 1: If nothing else, I think it's Ghost Knife.
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 6: I think we just pitched an idea for this new
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 6: indie film we're putting together, Ghost Knife. Because, I mean,
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 6: I'd contribute some money. Start kicking in some money, guys.
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 6: I will write a screenplay for Ghost Knife right now.
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 7: At least a graphic novel.
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 6: We'll start off, yeah, that's how you do it these days.
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 6: You make the graphic novel, and then it's based on
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 6: a graphic novel, so you can get the movie greenlit.
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 6: I see, yeah, yeah, we got a plan. And at
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 6: some point, somebody's going to be like, I, I, I,
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 6: I want the knife. So, yes, once again, go to thescarefest.com
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 6: and make your plans to be here next year.
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 7: Don't forget the the, because otherwise you will not get
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 7: to the right page.
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 6: Who knows what sort of nonsense you'll get to. So, thescarefest.com.
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 1: Oh, the scare.
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 7: If you just put in scarefest.com, you are not going
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 7: to get the right thing. So don't do that.
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 1: You bring up like a rave page or something.
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 6: So now, go get yourself some pumpkin flavored candy and
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 6: Goulet and sit down and watch Mr. Science Theater.
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 7: And some booter scotch.
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 6: Booter scotch. Otherwise, that about does it. We will return
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 6: next time. Same geek feed. Thanks for listening. Bye.
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 8: Bye. Bye.
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 12: Laid on the ground, shook the fear and glory light
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 12: And he ran on the way to town, screaming, he
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 12: came out of the sky Well, the crowd gathered round
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 12: and the scientists said it was Mars, yeah The people
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 12: came to make a speech about raising the.
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 2: Mars tax Thank you.
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 6: We'll be right back.
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 12: Get on the ground and shake it, feeling for the night.
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 1: I'm going to dress up like in a hat. hat
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 1: and like rock star like shit and go in there
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 1: and be like, you don't know me.
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 2: Where's my table?
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 3: You don't know me.
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 1: I'm paranormal fucking.
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 7: Jimmy.
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 6: Paranormal Jimmy.
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 1: Paranormal Jimmy from fucking ghost shitters.
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 1: You're going to shit your ass. Give me my fucking shit.
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 1: You're so special. You might get that. And then they're
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 1: going to be like, security.
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 6: We can find a cable network to back that, actually.
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 6: They'll make a lot of dumb ghost shows.
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 7: You know who I want to see at this convention?
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 6: Oh, God. Come on.
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 7: Who do I want to see at this convention?
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 7: I want to see the ghost facers.
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 1: Oh, ghost facers.
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 1: I got two ghost knives.
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 6: That'll be the sequel.
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 1: Well, I got them.
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 6: Ghost Knife 2.
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 1: I got them originally because I was trying to. Son
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 1: of Ghost Knife.
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 6: Son of Ghost Knife.
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 1: Son of Ghost Knife.
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 7: You could.
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 1: Hey, dangerous toys or evil toys or toys in the
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 1: attic or demonic toys.
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 6: Devil's playthings.
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 1: Devil's playthings.
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's what it is. You're almost there. Almost there.
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 1: Almost there. Stay on target.
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 6: Stay on target.
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 7: Good times. Ate candy.
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 1: What, here at the convention?
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 10: Yes.
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 1: Danny Trejo was here.
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 7: Didn't I already say that?
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 6: I think you said him. Oh, did you?
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 1: Okay, I didn't hear you.
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 7: He was like the very first thing I said was
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 7: Danny Trejo. This is what you get for not listening
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 7: to your girlfriend when she talks to you.
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 1: I'm looking at cat memes.
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 8: You are.
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 1: Can't help it.
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 6: You and the rest of the internet. Is that a
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 6: ghost name?
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 7: Cool.
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 1: There's a smaller version of it.
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 6: For Stabbing Tiny.
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 7: Good luck piecing this together.
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 6: That's every episode we do.
• 1:40:21
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• 1:40:24
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• 1:40:27
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• 1:40:30
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• 1:40:33
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