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Remembering Tim Curry · Pop Culture Junkie®

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♪ Entertain me, entertain me right now ♪
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- Hello and welcome to the Pop Culture Junkie podcast.
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I am Shauna here once again with my fellow jjunkie.
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Olivia, hi.
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- Hi babies.
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It's so nice to see you, but I wish we were still in person.
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- I know.
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Oh my God, Olivia came to visit last weekend
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just for like two days or a day.
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It wasn't really a visit, it was like in between pit stop
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kind of place.
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But we went out and it was so hot in my poor baby,
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it was not used to Arizona weather anymore.
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- Oh my God, God, there was one point where like,
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I just was like so overheated that I just was like,
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I called my Uber and leaving.
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Like I could not be there anymore.
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I was like, oh, okay, bye.
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Bye, yeah, that was actually like a crazy run.
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I went from San Francisco to Phoenix to San Diego, Phoenix,
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Wisconsin Dells, Phoenix home.
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I'm all in 11 days, so.
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(laughing)
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- That's too much, dude.
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- That's too much.
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- And Ziggy was with you for all of it.
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- Well, he didn't go to Wisconsin or San Diego,
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but he was in Phoenix with my mother,
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which also I do go home because my dog is a little weird
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oh freak and he is very cat like.
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Like he likes me and he likes my mom.
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Like no one else is able to really watch him.
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And then I saw there's this influencer,
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Madeline White, who I love.
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She has two dogs and she put her dogs in like,
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boarding training and one of her dogs died within like two days
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and they said that it was from overheating with this trainer.
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And they started posting about it and essentially this
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really famous dog trainer in LA has killed so far
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that they found 11 people's dogs in his care.
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- What the fuck?
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- Yes.
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And they've like died under like mysterious circumstances
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and all of them.
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- It's just keeping them out in the heat all day.
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Like they're not sure.
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Yeah, their dog died over overheating.
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They had two dogs with him.
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One is still alive thankfully.
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And so it is, I was like, that was happening again.
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I was like, well, yeah, I'm never,
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'cause people keep in like aren't you just gonna find
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like a San Francisco dog sitter?
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And I'm like, I don't trust anyone.
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- Yeah.
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- It's like, he is like a very unique animal.
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(laughing)
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- I've never left Buffy with like, sitters.
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Like we would always have like my father-in-law
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or like my sister-in-law watch her like,
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even with our cats like,
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so Andrew and I are going to Paris, London,
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and Madrid this month, which I'm so excited about.
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But we are taking the kittens to his mother's house.
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- Okay.
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- Which Alistair was making fun of us for my sister-in-law.
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She's like, people don't take their cats
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to other people's houses.
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That's the thing you do with dogs.
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(laughing)
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- Yeah, well, you do have three cats
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and one of them does not like the two of them.
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So.
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- It's just staying at your house.
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- Chows to staying at the house.
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And then two of my friends are gonna come in
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and just kind of tag team and check up and clean her,
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clear, cleaner litter box.
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- Clean her feet or every other day.
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Play with her a little bit.
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Probably use my swimming pool.
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So.
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- That is just the nice thing about cats.
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It's like, you know, like a weekender,
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like they're good, you know,
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just load them up with some extra food.
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- Oh yeah.
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- Dogs, that's animal abuse, you know?
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- Yeah.
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- A little bit, a little bit.
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- Chows can I, we're talking about we'd be more inclined
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to have children if like you could do that with a kid.
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Just like leave it at home for a couple days
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with like a litter box to shit in,
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enough food to feed itself.
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I'm just like, whatever, it's fine.
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- Yeah, I guess it's a certain age you can,
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but yeah, you gotta put in like 13 years of like good work.
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- Yeah, I wanna do this like a toddler,
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just kind of like-
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- Yeah, that's a special way to do it.
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- Leave it a bowl of water.
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- Leave it a bowl of food.
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Leave it a bowl of water and a box to shit in.
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- Leave it a bowl of water.
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- Yeah, and that's why we are sinks and dinks.
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(laughing)
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- So we are a child free by choice.
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- Oh yeah.
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- Speaking of child free by choice,
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we lost a child free icon recently.
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Miss Dolly Parton passed away.
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- Miss Dolly Parton and Miss Gore is Steinem.
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- Oh my God, I don't think I know.
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- Does she have kids though?
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- She was just a women's advocate.
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- I'm not sure if Gloria Steinem has children, honestly.
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She is a, for those who don't know,
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you should know if you listen to our podcast,
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but Gloria Steinem was a women's rights activist
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and icon from the 70s.
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She pioneered like Miss Magazine.
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She was a big advocate for intersectional feminism.
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She was just a wonderful, wonderful person.
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So that's sad.
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And Dolly, I know actually Gloria Steinem never had children
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either, two child free icons.
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- Yes, two child free icons.
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And activists in their own, right?
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I mean, Dolly Parton truly just such an amazing person
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really put her money to all of these amazing causes.
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- Yeah.
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- She made sure children had books to read,
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just really invested into communities and into causes
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that she cared about and Gloria Steinem as well.
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So we are really just losing celebrities left and right.
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None of the ones that we want to go out unfortunately.
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- None of the elderly people, 80 year olds
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that we are hoping will pass away.
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Yeah, I know.
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Like Dolly was one of those like Christians
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that kind of just defined what I think Christianity
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really is supposed to be.
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- Then to be, right?
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- And to me.
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- Love your neighbor, love others, help people.
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She was an LGBTQ advocate.
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So we are pouring one out for Dolly and Gloria today.
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- Speaking of Dolly over the Texas drag band,
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Judge was like reviewing it and he actually threw it out
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because he was like, the law is describing Dolly Parton
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and under that.
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Like I cannot move forward with this
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and somebody rejected the Texas drag band
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because he's like, everything you guys are saying
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could be applied to Dolly Parton.
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- That's hilarious.
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- And it was like a dare to after she had passed away
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and I was like, oh my gosh, you know,
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even in her death, she is still advocating for the community.
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- I love that big bosom, big bots of makeup,
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glitter, sequins, heels, blonde hair.
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- One of my favorite co-workers, he's a drag queen.
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And as soon as I heard, I was like, we lost a real one
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and he was like, dude, one of our clients told us on a call
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and he's like, I genuinely had to fight back tears
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until after and he's like, I've been crying
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for the last 30 minutes.
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So she really is just such an amazing person
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and I think such a testament to who she was
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was all of the people who had met her
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like in made statements were truly just, you know,
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you set such a good example in the world
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and why it celebrity should be
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and how you should use your money.
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- And a shadow producer of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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- Yeah, I mean, to create that show and not like take credit
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for it for somebody years and be a part of it
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is just crazy to me.
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- Love it.
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- And that's on doing the Lord's work in silence.
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- Doing the Lord's work, giving us Buffy,
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loving the gaze and looking damn good, well doing it.
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So and then obviously shadow to Gloria.
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That one hit me really hard today.
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So we are pouring one out for Gloria and Dolly
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but this episode is going to be dedicated
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to another beloved celebrity that we recently lost.
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Mr. Tim Curry, we lost them within a day
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to each other, which was just awful.
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- So they actually passed away on the same day
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but Tim Curry's team waited the day
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to announce it so that Dolly could have her tribute
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and I'm like, I love that.
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- I love that too.
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- And he is also a childless icon.
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(laughs)
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- Yeah, let's go.
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(laughs)
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So for this episode, we thought we'd take a look back
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at the career of Tim Curry.
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Tim Curry was born in Chessaya, England in 1946.
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He made his acting debut in 1968 in the stage musical Hair,
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which played in London's West End.
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He also played Dr. Frank and Furter.
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- That's an impressive way to come in here.
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- Right.
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- Well and on West End.
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- Yeah.
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- Yeah.
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So the role of Frank and Furter is what made him famous
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in the stage production of Rocky Horror Show
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as well as the film adaptation, The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
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He received three Tony nominations playing the lead
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in Amadeus.
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He played King Arthur and Spamlet
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and acted in numerous film roles,
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some of which are Annie in 1982,
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The Lord of Darkness in Legend in 1985,
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Wad's Wuth in Clue, The Concierge in Home Alone 2,
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The Three Musketeers, Long John Silver
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and Muppet Treasure Island.
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(laughs)
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- I saw some meme years ago that was literally like,
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we can tell how old you are by what film
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or what role you associate Tim Curry with.
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(laughs)
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- Mine's Fern Gully, so.
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(laughs)
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Fern Gully is so good.
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- Humans, the taste like chicken.
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- Yeah, so what was the first introduction
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that you had to Tim Curry?
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- I mean, I think Fern Gully, obviously he's animated there.
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So, you know, a little bit of one,
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I think the one that sticks out most in my mind
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is probably gonna have to be Home Alone 2,
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Lost in New York, but also Scary Movie 2.
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Or like, he's so good at Scary Movie 2.
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I love him so much, he plays.
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Like, he, I think, does such an amazing job
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at like insidious grimy, but like humor
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and you like him and you wanna just like keep watching.
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I mean, his Lord of Darkness in Legend
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is also the same way where he makes the devil in that world
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like quite interesting and fun and humorous.
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And so I think he does a great job at doing that.
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- Yeah, I agree.
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I think that my first time seeing him on film
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was definitely Home Alone 2.
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I mean, I love Fern Gully, but I didn't like know
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who Tim Curry was.
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And then also he was the voice of Nigel Thornberry
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and the Wild Thornberries.
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And I loved that show.
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So I didn't realize that was him for years either
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because yeah, his voice is so distinct,
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but he changes it so much for like,
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yeah, whether he's being like a villainous character
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or a more sexy one.
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He got an Emmy, a primetime Emmy nomination
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for his role as a family of hillbillies in Tales from the Crypt.
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I didn't have HBO when I was little,
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but that show I was scared of me so I never watched it.
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- And then of course, he was also Pennywise the Clown
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in the TV miniseries.
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- Yeah.
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- And yeah, I think that, you know,
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just prepping for this episode
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and going through his filmography.
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He was such a talented person
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and he really interestingly like gravitated towards
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these types of roles.
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But even within Rocky Horror Picture Show,
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he talks about why he became Frank
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or why he wanted to be that character.
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And he said he always just love to live out his contradictions
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and explore those kind of various elements within him.
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And so I like that.
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- I think that he's always been fun.
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And you know, we love a saucy British man.
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- I know.
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He's definitely so, I don't know.
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So many of his characters were like queer-coded.
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I mean, obviously, Frankenford or right.
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But just kind of like the,
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and he was very private about his sexuality.
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But I definitely think just like Dolly,
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like just kind of like a gay icon for these fun boy
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and kind of roles and the inflections.
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And I would say even like the goo monster from Ferngolly,
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like I need a lot of cartoon villains
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were kind of gay-coded in the 90s though.
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It's a lot too sad about that.
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But yeah, I think that it was just, you know,
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he meant so much to so many people.
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- Yeah, in 2025 they did like a kind of Rocky Horror picture show
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like cast, interview.
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And he really reflected on like the message of the movie
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and what it meant to him.
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He had already kind of experienced a stroke at this point
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as well as we had had like health issues.
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And it was a sense of like reflection on his life.
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And he said like really what being an LGBTQ icon meant to him
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was like one of the things that movie does
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is give permission to anyone to behave as badly as they want
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in whatever way they want and with whoever they want.
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And so I think that that movie really catapulted him
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into being a gay icon and permission in experimentation.
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I mean Rocky Horror picture show to this day
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is still such a cultural icon.
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- Oh my God, yeah.
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- Because events where it's live acted,
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the crowd dresses up like it really just captured such a beautiful
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like message and experience for anyone and everyone
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even to this day.
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So many years later.
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- Yeah, totally agreed.
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I liked this following his death.
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The New York Times praised Tim Curry's gift for garish eccentricity.
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Well, also, no, - Same that fact, fast.
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- Gerrish eccentricity.
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- Give her, give her, give her,
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give her, give her eccentricity.
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Noting that he was a favorite in roles
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calling for expressive villainy and general cartoonishness.
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So I love all of that.
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We are going to take a very quick break
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and then we are going to break down some of his most iconic roles
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or the ones that meant the most to us.
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As I mentioned, we are going to talk about some of our favorite Tim Curry roles.
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We kind of touched on it a little bit,
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but Rocky Horror Picture Show has to be number one for me.
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So Rocky Horror Picture Show, 1975,
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was directed by Jim Charman,
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written by Charman and Richard O'Brien, who played riffraff.
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It was based on the stage show and also starred Susan Sarandon,
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Barry Bostwick, Patricia Quinn, and Meatloaf amongst a lot of others.
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Have you ever been to a live showing of Rocky Horror Picture Show?
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I have not actually, and I feel like I truly need to get in there.
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I was supposed to go in high school,
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and I think I got like the flu or something.
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And I've just never been able to go.
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I think you went when I lived in Arizona at one point,
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and I just didn't get the chance to go with you.
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I've only been once.
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Oh, really?
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Okay, then maybe you were something else that you were going to.
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Yeah, I went once.
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It was either senior year of high school or freshman year of college,
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but I remember it was 18.
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And me and our friend Stephanie and Jessica, the three of us went,
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and they do a virgin sacrifice.
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Like if it's your first time, you're supposed to raise your hand
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and get humiliated on stage.
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And I was like, "No, I'm too shy."
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But we should definitely go.
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It is so fun.
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They play the movie, and then in front of it,
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they have people acting out the film as well.
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Doing the dance routines, doing the song numbers,
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throwing things at the screen.
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It is so fun.
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And just so many iconic songs.
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I love Sweet Transvestite.
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And the time warp, just so many things that you know.
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Yeah, I think that it's just such an iconic movie,
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as I mentioned in the beginning, that it's like parody.
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Like we even to the say like Sabrina Carpenter is like,
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what was it, tears.
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Yeah.
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That movie is just stacked with an amazing cast as well.
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So creative.
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And obviously it's an adaptation from a play,
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but the movie really just captured such a moment in time.
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And you know, it was post the free love era,
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but it really continued to kind of bring that into the zeitgeist.
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And I think forever and always he will be remembered
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as such an iconic character.
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For sure.
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The first time you see him on screen,
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and like his shoes are just huge, and he's in that elevator.
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And then he whips off his cloak, and he's in that like sparkly laundry
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ray.
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And he's a sweet transvestite from transsexual transylvania.
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Yeah.
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What gender is this person?
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It doesn't matter.
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I want him.
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I want them.
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Like he is sex with like so many people with both of the like lost characters in the
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soup.
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It's just it's so goofy and over the top and so gay and flamboyant and just wonderful.
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Yeah.
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He's such a perfect character for it.
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And like his theater background obviously sets him up for success within that.
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But I truly couldn't imagine anyone else in that role.
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I did like Anthony Stewart heads take on Frankenberger.
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He did it for a stage production.
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Also rest in peace.
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Anthony Stewart had our child.
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And he did amazing at it.
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But yeah, I mean in the movie adaptation definitely definitely need to be Tim Curry.
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Yeah.
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Could you ever see them like remaking that movie?
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I really hope not.
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I they did that for a while like ABC.
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I think it was was doing like a live musical productions.
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Do you remember that?
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That you could like turn the channel and they were doing like a live theatrical performance
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of different musicals with varying degrees of excess.
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So in the 90s because you were saying turn the channel.
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No, it was recent.
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It was within the last like 10 years.
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Oh, okay.
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You still have trouble?
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It was on cable.
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Okay, you had cable within the last 10 years.
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I didn't watch it.
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I just knew about it.
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I'm a pop culture junkie.
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Okay, but it just sounded like a tactile memory with the tone.
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No, it's just okay.
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Okay.
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So it was, oh, it was Fox.
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Okay, so it was a 2016 musical television.
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Oh, it was.
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Wow.
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Yeah.
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It was brought on on here.
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It was brought on here.
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It was brought on here.
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During the Glee time.
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Yes.
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They did a bunch of different adaptations.
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They did Greece and they would tweak some of them to be more like with the times.
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But yeah, they did it.
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I didn't watch it because I wasn't sure how good it was going to be.
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But yeah, I hope they don't do a, like a movie.
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A full movie.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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It's perfect as it is.
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Leave it alone.
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Literally.
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Literally.
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He was in the Fox live musical, but he played like the criminologist.
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No, he, he wasn't Frankenford or obviously he's, he was what 72 years old.
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So not the Frankenburger can't be a 72 year old man.
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Listen, I'm here for it.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, those heels might cause a broken hip, though.
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And then one of his more iconic roles as well is Clue the 1985 version, which is written
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and directed by Adjana Thinlin.
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He starred alongside Eileen Brennan, Madeline Conn, Christopher Lloyd, Michael McKean, Martin
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Moll, Leslie Ann Warren, Colleen Camp, and Lee Ving.
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And he, I mean, I've seen this movie.
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I mean, he's quite memorable within it.
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But I think that he, like this clue movie has been remade so many times.
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So we can answer that clue will get remade.
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Oh, yeah.
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I, I definitely have seen this movie.
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It's not one of my more like iconic roles of his personally, but I know a lot of people
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love this movie.
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And I love the board game.
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So yes, the board game is great.
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Yeah, it's a great game.
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Yeah.
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Who are you betting?
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Colonel Colonel Sanders with the candle stick in the library.
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Colonel mustard.
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Colonel Sanders is a sh*t.
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Colonel Sanders.
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Oh, the Colonel Sanders.
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I think it was Ronald McDonald with the deep frying.
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Ouch, that would hurt.
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Speaking of Colonel Sanders, have you seen Colonel Sanders theory that he's actually an
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Asian man pretending to be a white man?
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It's like an adult theory right now.
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Okay.
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Maybe we'll do.
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Maybe we'll have to do an episode of four year later.
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A theory.
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Oh, we've done weird theories before, but I think we should do strange like fast food theories.
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Oh, oh, oh, we should do Disneyland, like people who have died at Disneyland.
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That would be an interesting story.
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Oh, okay.
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Write that down.
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Write that down.
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Write that down.
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It's coral.
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Okay.
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Another role that Tim Curry is definitely known for one of his most iconic, I think, is Stephen
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King's It, specifically the 1990 TV miniseries that aired on ABC.
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This was directed by Tommy Lee Wallace who wrote the screen adaptation with Lawrence Decoen.
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It also starred Harry Anderson, Dennis Christopher, Richard Maser, Anet O'Toole, Tim Reed, John
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Ritter, Richard Thomas, Richard Mazer, Anet O'Toole, Tim Reed, John Ritter, Richard Thomas,
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Seth Green and Jonathan Brandis.
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I forgot Seth Green was in this.
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He's so young and cute in this role.
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He's such a dork.
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Well, token redhead actor.
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I know.
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I started watching this last week because I've never seen it all the way through.
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It is three hours long because it was originally a miniseries and then it's been like adapted
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into like movie format.
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But Pennywise is horrifying.
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Oh, my God.
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Halfway through, he's so scary, just so iconically grotesque and messing these children up.
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This is just so horrifying.
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I think the first introduction to people being afraid of clowns.
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When Stephen King wrote this, it was just the intro to clowns or terrifying and we should
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all hate them.
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So it is a 1986 horror novel of, you know, if people didn't know it was a book first and
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then four years later, I was made into this miniseries.
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The 90s loved a miniseries.
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Yeah.
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I know, right?
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So it's about an evil shapeshifting monster that wakes up once every 27 years to feed on
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the town's children and one of the preferred shapes for the monster to shift into is a clown
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because why not?
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Yeah, with a creepy little balloon.
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Yes.
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Y'all float too.
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I love the modern movies and welcome to Dairy.
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Like I'm so glad that the it universe is still going.
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Yeah, I think that.
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I mean, like a shoot, like even in Home Alone 2, like his like smile is so creepy and like
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it's such a perfect fit for like creepy clown and yeah, when I was younger, like was so afraid
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of it and my dad, Resta Sol, I'm parenting award of the year was letting me watch way too
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many horror movies and you know, this movie came out before I was born but it would like
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let me be around when he was watching it.
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Oh my god.
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Now I'm not like mortified. Like I'm not adult afraid of clowns, but holy shit, I was so scared
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of clowns and so yeah, I think that it is is really, really interesting.
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I do love a 90s mini series or book to TV at a patient that eventually gets a movie.
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You also get that with like Hannibal Lecter series, right?
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And so that started as a TV movie.
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I mean, moved into it.
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Yeah, he's so good in that role and and so creepy.
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And then of course where most millennials came to know and love him, maybe we still a little
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afraid of him, but not as afraid as Stephen King's it is Home Alone 2 lost in New York
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icon.
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We love to see him within that movie and he does like a good little villain with comedy.
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Yes.
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Your cheesy pizza sir.
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Yeah, that movie is directed by Chris Columbus written by John Hughes, starred McCulley
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Colken, Joe Paskey, Daniel Stern, Catherine Roher, RIP, they're together now.
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They're hanging out.
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John heard Brenda Fricker and Satan himself, Donald Trump.
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Oh god.
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I know.
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I loved all the memes that were like the wrong cast members from Home Alone 2 were leaving.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, he does just such a good job.
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Like I said with that quote earlier, like he loves to pick a movie where he's living out
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contradictions or he's like sometimes just like a little shit.
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Garrish eccentricity.
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Garrish eccentricity is yes, I think that it's such a good movie.
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And he has truly no shortage of iconic ones like scary movie too.
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Oh my god.
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I absolutely love him.
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I can't see that so funny.
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He definitely is.
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So good.
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What do you mean?
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I haven't seen that movie.
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It's so long, but I remember him being so funny in that role.
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Who does he play in scary movie too?
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He plays like the creepy professor.
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I can't remember his name.
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He's the one that brings them all in for the study and is trying to fuck Anna Ferris in
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it.
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And he gets possessed to like try to sleep with her as well.
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It's so, so good.
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He plays like he plays a good creep.
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I love him.
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He's always that yeah, like it's just that he's the preferred.
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He's the creepy professor old man.
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Yeah, there we go.
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Yeah, exactly.
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And he plays it well.
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He plays it really, really well.
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I think again, Gannis that creepy smile.
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So it works really well.
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And then he's very famous for being in it.
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So you know, subsequently they bring him in.
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I love when scary movie does that.
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I actually still have not watched the new scary movie.
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I haven't either, but I heard it's not afraid to.
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I'm afraid to.
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Well, no, I'm going to do it because I want them to make more.
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But I traditionally hate a sequel out of nowhere, but I do love those movies so much.
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I have for some reason as a lover of horror, keep finding myself dating men who are afraid
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of scary movies.
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And so I like just try to ease them in with comedy horror.
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You need a bisexual non-blond man who loves horror movies.
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We'll start with the non-blond, then we'll move into bisexual.
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Non-blond bisexual liberal man who likes horror movies.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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There it is.
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Absolutely.
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There's the personal.
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Absolutely.
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Anyway, any takers, you know?
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That cannot be that hard in San Francisco, you know?
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No, that sounds.
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It basically described every San Francisco man.
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Right?
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Yeah.
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I'm just going to walk around with the sign around me.
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Just now seeking.
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Now seeking bisexual.
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You can see these non-blond.
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You could just look at it.
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Oh, yeah.
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Yeah.
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I like having it in there.
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It's a little bit.
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I think non-blond.
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Bisexual non-blond.
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Bisexual non-blond.
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Like, what is that three non-blonds?
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But it'll be.
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Yeah.
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Bisexual non-blond.
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Good band.
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Good band.
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Three bisexual non-blonds.
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Yeah.
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You need three?
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Yeah.
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God damn.
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I'm going, Polly.
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Wow.
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I was debating, buying dark black blue hair dye, and then I thought to myself, I cannot move to
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San Francisco and have blue hair.
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Like I'm becoming the prophecy.
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You already have a nose ring.
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Yeah.
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Well, that was to signal that I'm a little bit saucy.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I mean, this is definitely like, who do you think I voted for?
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Look at my bangs and my nose ring.
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Come on, man.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Absolutely.
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I love it.
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I think that Tim would love us.
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I think that we, he would love our garish eccentricities.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I think he would have been fun.
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He in the past has said that he loved him some hashish and the kokina.
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And so I think that we would, you know, have a grand old time with the man.
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And he has been awarded countless awards.
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Go figure awarded.
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He's won Emmys.
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He's won Tonys.
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And, you know, it is truly recognized in his day as well as in his death.
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And so we will pray that they are all together having a grand old time, having a gale time,
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inspirate.
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Gale time, him and Dolly and Gloria.
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Yeah.
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Gale time and Anthony Head.
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So we will watch some of these, I think, more scarier Tim Curry movies.
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I think it's every Halloween is time for a Rocky Horror Rewatch.
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I'm going to finish it.
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I'm ready for my horror movies.
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And I think that is a wrap up on this Tim Curry Memorial episode of Pop Culture Junkie.
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