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Looking for Fear Street in the 90s · Movie Meltdown

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  Speaker 1: What's up, and welcome to Movie Meltdown. I'm Brian, and
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  Speaker 1: on this exclusive Horror Club episode, we head back to
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  Speaker 1: the Bastion to discuss a new horror movie, and in
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  Speaker 1: true Meltdown fashion. And since we are specifically jumping into
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  Speaker 1: the young adult horror novel turned into film world, who
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  Speaker 1: better to assess the situation than our resident YA horror enthusiast, Misty.
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  Speaker 1: And yes, she has plenty to say about how this
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  Speaker 1: movie fits into the YA horror world.
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  Speaker 2: Or doesn't.
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  Speaker 1: And of course, as per usual, that also means Jay
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  Speaker 1: gets roped into it. Which is awesome because as you
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  Speaker 1: probably know, he always has his own special take on things. Plus,
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  Speaker 1: we usually get each other off track with some sort
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  Speaker 1: of ridiculous story. So if you're not already a member, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: now is the time to join the Meltdown Horror Club,
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  Speaker 1: where you'll get to hear us say awesome things like this.
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  Speaker 2: One of the most, let's say, one of the most
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  Speaker 2: famous horror movies?
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  Speaker 1: I would say. It's one of those that even normal
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  Speaker 1: people who don't like horror movies probably have seen. If not,
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  Speaker 1: they know about it, they know all the references, so...
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  Speaker 1: It's certainly one of the most widely known horror movies.
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  Speaker 2: It was one of the big ones when I was
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  Speaker 2: a kid.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, I was so upset that they didn't do
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  Speaker 1: more with her in the long run. And they went
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  Speaker 1: back to doing the most conventional version of the wrap
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  Speaker 1: up that we've seen three times over already.
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  Speaker 2: We found a podcast where somebody talks to our neighbor.
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  Speaker 2: In jail.
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  Speaker 1: So I was going to say in prison now. You
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  Speaker 1: might if you're not listening for years and years and years.
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  Speaker 1: We've brought this up on the show a long time ago,
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  Speaker 1: but yes, across the street right over there, you can't
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  Speaker 1: see me pointing to it, is the house where a
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  Speaker 1: serial killer lived.
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  Speaker 2: He cut our yard.
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  Speaker 1: He used to cut the grass, and he talked to Jay.
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  Speaker 2: Worked on motorcycles with boyfriend in our garage, helping with cars.
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  Speaker 1: And Misty was creeped out by him, even then.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, only once.
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  Speaker 1: Your spidey sense was tingling. Just the one fresh in
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  Speaker 1: the garage. One in the garage, one in the yard.
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  Speaker 2: Which, according to the details in the podcasts, The reason
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  Speaker 2: why the old lady in the garage became a victim. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I remember them dragging the river right after they arrested him.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but we didn't know why.
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  Speaker 1: They weren't pretty sure the guy who left all that
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  Speaker 1: stuff behind murdered a bunch of people.
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  Speaker 3: Nice.
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  Speaker 1: Licenses. Several, several driver's licenses.
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  Speaker 2: You didn't at least take pictures of these so you
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  Speaker 2: could try to Google them or something?
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  Speaker 1: I was helping somebody else and they were trying to
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  Speaker 1: hurry up and get everything cleared out of there because...
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  Speaker 1: It was their locker and they had to get everything
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  Speaker 1: out and move on and do other stuff and whatever.
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  Speaker 1: I just claimed the good stuff he left behind. That's
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  Speaker 1: where I got that bitchin' knife from. Which has probably
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  Speaker 1: murdered at least several women. It was mostly women's driver's license.
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  Speaker 1: There was also a jar full of teeth.
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  Speaker 2: And you didn't keep those? At first we shall discuss
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  Speaker 2: it as a movie. A dumb, fun slasher movie. And
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  Speaker 2: then I'll discuss it as a Fear Street movie.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure that The book reading network all knew all
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  Speaker 1: about it. But for regular, you know, just movie dorks,
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  Speaker 1: I don't remember.
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  Speaker 2: Us Instagrammers who follow all the things Fear Street and R.L.
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  Speaker 2: Stine related, we knew this was coming. And a lot
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  Speaker 2: of us had our kind of questions. All right. And
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  Speaker 2: when I first watched the movie, I was.
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  Speaker 1: Those individual scenes are still masterfully done. damn, he knows
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  Speaker 1: how to shoot horror scenes. Like, everything else within those
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  Speaker 1: little individual scenes works so well that I'm just, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm impressed with it on that level. And that's what
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to address, at least, going into it, was, like,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't have any of that, as constantly mentioned on
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  Speaker 1: this show, I don't read anything. So, like, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: have any.
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  Speaker 2: I lived these books.
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  Speaker 1: I know. So, I mean, that puts it in a
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  Speaker 1: totally different perspective, because I had no.
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  Speaker 2: I was literally in elementary school. Waiting for that little
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  Speaker 2: piece of paper they bring you, the little order form.
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  Speaker 2: The scholastic book club, whatever. Oh, and don't even get
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  Speaker 2: me started on the goddamn book fair. When the book
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  Speaker 2: fair would come and set up in the library, do
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  Speaker 2: you know how many chores I had to do around
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  Speaker 2: the house, scraping up nickels and dimes, so that I
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  Speaker 2: could have my jingle jangles going when I'd go to
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  Speaker 2: the goddamn book fair?
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  Speaker 1: Again, the 90s is that era when the geeks started
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  Speaker 1: to find each other, because... Suddenly we had, yeah, we
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  Speaker 1: had internet. We had chat rooms.
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  Speaker 2: That everybody sat in.
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  Speaker 3: But they weren't like most of the ones, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: maybe this is, you know, maybe that's a different dimension.
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  Speaker 1: What's the shortcut? What's her name? Is it somebody's shortcut? Frisbee?
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  Speaker 2: I have no idea what you're talking about.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, there's one that's the shortcut that Whoever this character
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  Speaker 1: is finds a way to travel faster than the crow
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  Speaker 1: flies on these roads. This is Todd's shortcut? That sounds
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  Speaker 1: like a thing.
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  Speaker 2: Never heard of it.
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  Speaker 1: So it is over the top.
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  Speaker 2: It didn't feel 90s to me at all. At all.
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  Speaker 1: The movie or the use of the song? The movie.
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  Speaker 2: The movie didn't seem 90s to me at all. What
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  Speaker 2: did you say to me right after we watched it?
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  Speaker 3: I didn't see a goddamn choker in the whole fucking movie.
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  Speaker 3: That was uncomfortable.
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  Speaker 2: I know. That needed a trigger warning.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I felt dirty after that. I think everybody did.
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  Speaker 2: Me and boyfriend were sitting down and I'm like, what
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  Speaker 2: are the chances that something that you're so passionate about
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  Speaker 2: and that I'm so passionate about are coming out so
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  Speaker 2: close together?
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  Speaker 3: That guy's an Asian. Dude, you don't know the fist fights.
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  Speaker 3: That were had over that figure in the aisles of
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  Speaker 3: Toys R Us. The running to hopefully grab the last
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  Speaker 3: Snake Eyes. Because they didn't put a lot of them
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  Speaker 3: on the shelves. Barbecue, you know.
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  Speaker 2: The Enemy, Snowjob. Yeah, you could find him.
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  Speaker 3: There's a whole bunch of them.
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  Speaker 2: But at least you had merchandise. Fear Street had books
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  Speaker 2: and that was it. At least if you got Goosebumps,
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  Speaker 2: you had board games, you had t-shirts, you had fucking toys,
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  Speaker 2: you had everything. You had trading cards.
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  Speaker 3: Fear Street had nothing.
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  Speaker 2: I had to make my own goddamn Fear Street trading cards.
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  Speaker 2: And I did, goddammit. And I laminated them all. He
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  Speaker 2: was supposed to have survived the TV to the head.
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  Speaker 2: Because his character, you can see him at the party
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  Speaker 2: in the second movie.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm like, this is kind of how teenagers talk.
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  Speaker 2: I hate to talk.
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  Speaker 1: I certainly was like that. Not like I've gotten much
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  Speaker 1: better now.
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  Speaker 2: I got to start off by saying how much I love,
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  Speaker 2: was it Maya? Maya Hawk?
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  Speaker 1: I think it's Maya Hawk.
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  Speaker 2: Love her. You know what would have made her four
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  Speaker 2: fucking awesome? If she'd have been wearing a fucking choker,
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  Speaker 2: because that would have been more fucking right. See, there
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  Speaker 2: we go. She could have been wearing a choker. She
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  Speaker 2: has the neck for it. It would have looked good
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  Speaker 2: on her. She has a nice little skinny neck, a
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  Speaker 2: little velvet choker, or the little plastic ones with the
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  Speaker 2: little design. You know what I'm talking about? Yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: know what you're talking about.
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  Speaker 1: That was my next thing. First of all, we get
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  Speaker 1: the mall, which, as you know, I spent a little
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  Speaker 1: more time in the mall than normal humans should. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I was looking, because when they look around, we got.
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  Speaker 2: Was Sbarro's there? Because I... You have no idea how
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  Speaker 2: many times I have a hankering for Sbarro's.
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  Speaker 1: I want a pizza flipped over on top of another pizza.
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  Speaker 1: And we decided to go check it out. And being
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  Speaker 1: dorks that we are, we also had a video camera...
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  Speaker 1: This was cutting edge of technology. I'd saved up so
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  Speaker 1: much money and got my tax return back from working.
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  Speaker 2: Was it massive? Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's a full-size VHS. It took the VHS cassettes. It
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  Speaker 1: was the RCA model and had a full pop-out. Shove
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  Speaker 1: the tape in there, start your recording. So we decided
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  Speaker 1: to take our camera and go in there and go exploring.
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  Speaker 1: Are you okay with them trying to do any? Do
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  Speaker 1: you think they'll ever actually be successful in... in your mind,
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  Speaker 1: at trying to do a version of either Fear Street
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  Speaker 1: or our Ulstein other projects. Now, as I said, if
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  Speaker 1: you join up and become a Melkiteer, not only will
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  Speaker 1: you get to hear this episode in its entirety, but
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  Speaker 1: you'll also get to hear all of the upcoming episodes,
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  Speaker 1: including the next two movies in this horror trilogy. It
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  Speaker 1: is a very interesting series, and of course, we have
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  Speaker 1: a lot to say about it. So go to MovieMeltdown.com
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  Speaker 3: On this terror train, this terror train, this Pennsylvania terror train.