Aug. 24, 2025

Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck - Freaky Tales

Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck - Freaky Tales

Jeff and Garret love a good anthology film. This week, they dive into the chaotic madness and freaky fun of Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck's 2025 comedic action anthology Freaky Tales!

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So the definition of an anthology film is a movie

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composed of several distinct, self contained stories, often connected by

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a common theme, premise, or director. So, Garrett, I think

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this type of film lends itself more to the horror

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genre when you consider all the greats like Creep Show, VHS,

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Cat's Eye, Twilight Zone, the Movie. But let's not forget

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we have examples like Sin City in Four Rooms. There's

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even a Yeah, there's even animated films like Heavy Metal

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and Fantasia. So yeah, I myself, I love a good

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anthology film. Do you happen to have a favorite?

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Oddly enough? I really enjoyed the All Hollows Eve films

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one and to you, I mean, I thought they did

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a pretty amazing job. And if I'm not mistaken, that

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is where Art the Clown ended up coming from. And

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that's what brought us Terrifier.

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You gotta be kidding. I didn't even realize that there

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was a Are you saying that there's like a movie

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before the first Terrifire that introduced him.

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There, they're sure is all Hallows Eve. Yeah, go ahead

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and check that out. There's a little segment in there.

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And then I believe the second one is where it's

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a breakthrough performance for him.

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I'm definitely gonna check that out because, uh, I mean,

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we're getting summer's about over and we're getting we're getting

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into the creepy months.

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So oh yeah, I want to say the first one

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takes place a kid gets gifted a VHS tape during

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Trick or Treat, goes home, watches it with mom, and

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then of course pandemonium starts.

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All right, I'm looking that one up. I would have

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to think that the the Goat might be creep show

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for me.

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Oh by far.

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Yes, we're talking to the anthologies. Let's let's talk about

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a film by Anna Bowdin and Ryan Fleck there twenty

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twenty five underrated comedic sn anthology film Freaky Tales. Hello everybody,

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and welcome back.

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I'm Jeff Johnson and I'm Garret Gibson, and.

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This is a film by podcast so Garrett. Before we

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get started, I'd like to welcome our newest Patreon member

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and shout out how unbelievably awesome he is. Eric Dearth

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has signed up for our assistant director Tier and that

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gets him the stickers, the color changing stadium cup. We're

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gonna do a Patreon episode of his choice, and him

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being a new member definitely makes him awesome, but what

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makes him unbelievably awesome is the incredible gifts he sent us.

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So listeners, if you'll recall, back in June, we celebrated

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our four hundredth episode with something truly unique. We did

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an episode on Richard Donner's nineteen eighty nine film Batman.

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And right now some of you are saying, wait, that's

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not right. He didn't do that. Well, our episode came

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from the alternate universe, where he in fact did direct

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that movie. So go back and check it out if

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you haven't already, because I promise you it's like nothing

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you've ever heard on a movie podcast before. And Eric,

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who is insanely talented, sent us a full sized theatrical

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poster for this alternate Batman film. Garrett, you got to

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see this thing. It's just it blew my mind, man,

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it really did.

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That's actually pretty freaking cool, it is.

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And in addition to that, he sent us a special

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piece of movie memorabilia from the film, which again does

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not exist in our reality. And I won't say what

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it is because I don't want to spoil the fun. However,

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we are working on a special behind the scenes episode

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for our Patreon about the Batman episode, because frankly, a

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lot of you have had a lot of questions on

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what was real, what wasn't and how we pulled it off.

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I just thought, you know, instead of answering all the

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messages and the emails, maybe we just do have some

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fun to do, like a behind the scenes type of

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thing to show you how we created this thing. But

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we'll be showing off the amazing gifts that Eric sent

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us when we do that. So look forward to that

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here in the next few months. And oh, by the way,

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go back and check out our Michael Mann episode on

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Collateral where we invited Eric Dearth to join us. So

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great to have him as a Patreon member. Great to

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have him on that episode. Gary, let's get to it.

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I guess some facts and a quote from this directing duo.

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Not a whole lot these they're they're kind of new

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to the scene, but I was able to dig up

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a little bit on him. So. Anna Boden's love of

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movies led her to take an intro to film class

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in high school, where she wrote a report on Robert

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Altman before heading off to Columbia University to study English

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in cinema. If Amber Lewis is listening to this, she's

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already just become a fan of Anna Boden because Amber

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loves Robert Altman obviously. Ryan Fleck, on the other hand,

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who grew up in Oakland, was always interested in the

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movie business after seeing his stepdad play a poker player

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in the John Wayne film The Flying Leathernecks. So after

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studying theater, acting, and directing at Diablo Valley College, he

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went to New York to study film at NYU's Tish

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School of Arts, which I think that's where Spike Lee went.

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I think we've talked about it is yep.

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Yeah, we talked about that school a couple of times

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on this on this podcast. Uh. It was at NYU

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where Boden and Fleck met. She was taking a summer

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filmmaking course and he was working in the film editing department.

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They bonded over their love of Robert Altman movies, and

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that's what made them decide they wanted to work together.

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Nice Okay, So, and they've been kind of like a

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packaged deal ever since.

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I like, yeah, all their stuff, they're they're together on

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fun fact for you, before James Gunn was chosen. They

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were heavily considered by Kevin Feike to direct Guardians of

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the Galaxy.

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Oh man, uh not to not to say that would

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have been a bad move or anything like that, but uh,

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I'm a big fan of James Gunn's work.

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Hey, listen, I'm not I'm not even gonna hold my

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cards close here. I love Freaky Tails and just seeing

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what this movie is, the craziness that's involved in this movie.

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I know they could have done a great job with

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Guardians and Galaxy, but I mean, James Gunn, yeah, I

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think I think he did. He did just fine. So ultimately, though,

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it was their discussion with Kevin Feige about Carol Danvers

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and her the Journey that they'd love to see her

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take which led them to getting hired to being hired

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for Captain Marvel. So, I mean, hey, we're gonna go

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another direction with Guardians of the Galaxy. But here's another

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MCU superhero.

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Film exactly a strong female lead and honestly is one

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of the first strong female leads that they had a

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standalone film with. So actually, big feather in their cap

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for him.

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Yeah, I got to give credit where credits due Captain Marvel.

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It did like a billion dollars. Yes, and I might

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need to go back and watch it. I've told you before,

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not one of my favorites in the MCU, but you

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know it kind of makes sense. But you know Ben

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Mendelssohn was was in when that and you know we're

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gonna see him. We're gonna talk about him a little

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bit in this movie. But uh, Freaky Tails. Anna Boden

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had this to say when when she was asked straight

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up like what is Freaky Tails? She said, quote, this

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is gonna be a mixtape of a movie things that

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Ryan loved growing up in Oakland in the eighties, things

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that we loved about the movies that affected us when

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we were young. I think there's a little bit more

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you could you could you could uh emphasize there, Garrett,

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for I know a lot of people have not seen

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this because it just came out. What can you tell us?

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What's what's the film synopsis that that Garrett Gibson would

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give us?

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Uh, this is one of the better horror anthology films

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that I've actually seen as of late. It's truly extraordinary

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in the direction and the pace that it keeps going

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across the four stories while also intertwining the four so

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I believe each story had their own kind of key

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point that it brought to the table. And I don't

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think this film could have done it without any of

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the four segments. So I believe it was actually done

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the correct way, And as far as anthology films go,

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I would rate this up there with some of the

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better ones.

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Film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in twenty twenty four,

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before Lionsgate snaps it up releases it in April of

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twenty twenty five. It just became available on HBO Max,

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where you and I caught it. We got to talk

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about this opening credit sequence. We get the greeny picture,

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there's some tracking issues, that title font that you know,

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the excellent music, It's instant eighties nostalgia, and I cannot

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love it more. I think we're in for an hour

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and forty eight minutes of awesomeness.

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You're absolutely right. This just everything about it, how it shot,

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the direct it keeps the pacing, it keeps its very

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nineteen eighties, so it being set in Oakland nineteen eighty seven,

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it fits perfectly with any eighties gen that you want

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to watch.

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You know you mentioned there's four separate stories. It all

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gets set up by this title crawl, which is being

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narrated by eighties rap star Too Short. It's all about

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how wild Oakland was in eighty seven. There's there's mention

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of this mysterious bright green glow that's affecting things at

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this point. Were you ready for how chaotic and off

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the wall was gonna get?

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Oh, by no means and not at all. And just

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the first story it introduces you too. I mean it's

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a sucker punch to the face, is how quick this

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film takes all for you? And I've got to tell you,

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I freaking enjoyed that first story that they kick off with.

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Well, let's take a quick break and then we'll talk

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all about Chapter one, Strengthen Numbers, also known as The

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Gilman Strikes Back. Welcome back. We are talking about freaky tales,

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and Garrett, let's get into a little bit of a

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chapter one. You know, we got four parts to go.

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Chapter one Strengthen Numbers, better known as The Gilman Strikes Back.

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So we open on this theater that's letting out where

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the crowd has just watched The Lost Boys and throughout

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the anthology, we'll come back to this spot a few

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more times, and each time we're treated to a little

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more of the marquee aside from The Lost Boys. Did

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you happen to catch the other films that we're playing

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that weekend?

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I did not know.

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Okay, So it's The Lost Boys, yep Ish Tar, Radio Days,

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Raising Arizona, Oh my gosh. And on the side it

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says coming soon Creep Show two.

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Dude. Okay, way to pay homage to a super classic

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anthology film there.

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Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna be a box office note

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here for a second, because I'm assuming that there's got

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to be some kind of connective tissue either between these

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movies or they're they're they're chosen for a certain reason. Yes,

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you mentioned, you know, Creep Show two obviously had awesome

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horror anthology. But here's the thing, if we're gonna get technical.

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The Lost Boys came out July thirty first, Ishtar came

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out May fifteenth, Radio Days came out January thirtieth, Raising

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Arizona came out March thirteenth, and Creep Show, which we

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see is coming soon, actually came out May first. So

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because I was all excited. I was like, wait, did

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all these movies open against each other?

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Right?

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Not the case? So that is not the case. I

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don't know. We gotta talk with Ryan and Anna and

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find out why these movies were chosen. But we got

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we got punk rockers versus neo Nazis, and it's all

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going down at the Alternative Music Foundation, a nonprofit, all

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ages Welcome, inclusive music club, mostly known as the Gilman

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because it's located at nine to twenty four Gilman Street, Garrett.

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One of the cool things about this movie is that

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each one of these little segments is steeped in reality.

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It's all about you know, yeah, Ryan Fleck growing up

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in Oakland in eighty seven, So these are real places.

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The Gilman well regarded as the place that started the

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nineties punk revival. I was actually surprised to find out

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that back in the late eighties and early nineties you

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may have caught such acts as Operation Ivy, which they

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mentioned in the movie, Rancid, The Offspring, and green Day,

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all these bands playing on stage at the Gilman.

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No way, Okay, that's actually pretty freaking awesome to see

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Green Day or like the Offspring or something have a

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like venue of that size that that's pretty freaking cool.

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That's kind of like the size of the Attic that

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used to be out in Kettering, Ohio, just a little

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in the wall place. That's pretty freaking cool.

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Yeah, also awesome. The Gilman is open to this very day, Okay, Yeah, so.

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So we could probably get out there and watch some

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up and coming punk rock bands out there exactly.

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Okay, who you see at the Gilman today might be

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on I wasn't gonna say a TV, but that doesn't

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happen anymore. But you'll see him headlining some big festival

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on TikTok.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, so we're treated to some punk music, some weird animation.

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There's a will they won't they love story that's kind

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of blossoming, and it all culminates in this wild street

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brawl with the punk rockers defending their turf against some

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scumbag Nazis. This blew my mind.

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Uh, it definitely blew my mind. And I've got to

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tell you, anytime I can tune in and see a

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bunch of punk rock kids is beating the hell out

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of some not neo Nazis, I absolutely love that. So

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I give that like first segment a ten out of ten.

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Man just perfect.

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Yes, I know, I know. Our good buddy Andrew Blake.

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Lee has always maintained that nazis like the perfect villain

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in any movie because you there's like a universal hatred

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for him. You want you want them to get what's

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coming to them exactly. And this fight it it's both

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gory and hilarious. Uh did you pick up the Am

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I wrong in saying that there's there's a little Batman

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sixty six vibe to it?

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Oh? You're damn right there is.

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Yeah, I'll tell you, man, that one Nazi gets set

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on fire. I was like, holy shit, Like, what what

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are we? What are we doing here? Man?

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Like yeah, yeah, I like how they just scatter after that,

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it's like just a classic eighties movie, like how did

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nobody die? What happened?

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Yeah, it's a fun it's a it's a fun segment.

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You know, the guy gets the girl, or you could

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say the girl gets the guy. Music love it wins,

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Evil is punished, and I really loved it. Moving on

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chapter two, don't fight the feeling we're zigging with this

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punk rock or Nazi fight and we're about to zag

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into the world of eighties hip hop and man am

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I loving this one? So we go back to the

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movie theater. Now we're at a different point of view,

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this time with Barbie and Entice, the two girls that

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make up the rap group Danger Zone. They're like a

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rising talent in the local clubs that give off to me.

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They give off like jj fad vibes. Do you remember

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you remember.

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Jj fadd super absolutely supersonic. And then I was also

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seeing a little bit of salt and pepper thrown in

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there as well.

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Yeah, yeah, there's some salt and pepper. So they get

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noticed by the guy who represents Too Short. He invites

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them to perform with h with the rap star at

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Jimmy Sweets. So you know, nice little setup, right, And

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then the next day we're at the we're at their

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day job, they're at the ice cream shop, and we

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are treated to the slimiest performance possible by the brilliant

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actor Ben Mendelssohn.

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Oh, absolute ultra slim in there. Brother. It's a role

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that I'm surprised to see him in, but I absolutely

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love this for him because he made this character so

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hate herble and that just tells me he's a great actor, right,

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there gy.

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Oh, he makes your skin crawl, like I'm I'm concerned

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for these girls well being, especially when he when you know,

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we get the realization that he's he's a cop. So

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now yeah, you're like, oh, now it's it's not just

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sexual harassment and and and being in a creep. Now

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he's he's it's an abusive power. He is so fun

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to hate in this movie, though.

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He is to see and you used to see that

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a lot in eighties films where you'll just see this

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slimy dirt ball of a guy and you're like, I

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just hate your face, I hate your personality and everything.

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And Ben Mendelssohn freaking kills it in that role.

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So what he's doing, he's he's slimy, but he's he's

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doing this in this really disgusting, playful way he is,

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you know, like I love the fact that the girls

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are not backing down from him. No, no, Like he's

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he has that moment where he's like, what do they

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say the Derek and the Barry she goes the heart

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of the slap. He's like, I don't think it goes

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that way. He's just disgusting man, And he gets back

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in the squad car. His partner doesn't get an ice

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cream cone. He's like, you didn't think to ask me

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if I wanted something. He's a guy. They're out, but

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it's too short.

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The fact that they slide too short in there as

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what is dubbed the Guy's partner because they never gave

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Ben Mendelssohn's character a name other than yeah.

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He's the guy.

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Like, looking through the cast, I'm like, the guy's partner.

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What the hell are we talking about?

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Oh?

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Okay, yeah they yeah, they never named him. Okay, they

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never gave name.

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Yeah, so slimy and evil, he just he's not even

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get getting the name.

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Heck no no, uh.

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But this rap battle, I'm telling you right now, it

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had me wishing there was an actual danger Zone album

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because these two ladies slay too short.

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Oh, they absolutely do, and they're essentially brought there to

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be made fun of for him to kind of like

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walk all over them, and it's like, hey, your rap

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is trash. We're gonna go ahead and just dish you

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because you're too younger ladies out here trying to make

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a name for yourself. We're gonna too short just evists

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rate you. And that is not what happened brother.

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Yeah, well yeah, I remember this is this is eighties rap,

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and this is the time of n W A and

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two Live Crew, Too Short, Easy E. This is where

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there's a specific kind of songs being sung about women

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by these by these these rap stars. Yeah, and they

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were there to just be cannon fodder. And I love

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the fact that they find their voice. You know, we

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talked about we mentioned this, this mysterious green glow. It

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kind of shows up in all the in all the segments,

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but it's almost like it's the moment when someone gets

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their power or they find their power, yep.

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And it's when they finally realize that they need to

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stop running or stop hiding or whatever it needs to be.

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They stand up for themselves. And in this one, oh

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my gosh, the delivery after they get the little bit

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of hype from the green glow, it's fricking amazing.

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The crowd is behind them and they get the best

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of Too Short. I like the fact that it ends

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with him kind of smiling like and and giving them

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their props. They have the hug. It's it's a fun

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little segment, especially after the the bloody battle that we got,

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just like ten minutes earlier. Oh yeah, you know, we

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took a different, different, different path on this one, I think,

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and it works, It really does.

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It was definitely a nice, little, real end to calm

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down the film because it's like, hey, again, we're starting

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this one with a sucker punch. You're gonna be reeling

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for the next fifteen minutes and then you're gonna go

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ahead and get into this thing that's kind of gonna

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slow it down a bit, and I think it's definitely needed.

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So at this point, like I don't know about you,

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but we're a good thirty minutes into the movie. Maybe

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did you have the same reaction that I did where

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you thought to yourself, where the hell's Pedro Pascal? Isn't

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he the star of this movie?

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Like what's going especially since you see him in the

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first like segment for like two seconds, You're like, Okay,

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I thought he was like supposed to be the main

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guy in this film. When are we getting him?

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Yeah? Are two protagonists from the uh the punk rockers

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versus Nazi fight. He just throw in a diner. They're

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having a nice moment and he just walks by, and

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it's like, wait, that was him? But is he coming

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back and yeah, and I'm thinking, you know, because when

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you watch the trailer for this, it's all Pedro and Ben.

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Yeah, it's all.

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So Chapter three, Born to Mac Pedro, Pascal has finally arrived.

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He's on the payphone having a very ominous conversation with

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a doctor. His wife is dead. The baby is in

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the neodatal intensive care unit. It's not looking good for

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the baby. No flashback to tell us how we all

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got there. You know, he's what is He's in the

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car with his wife. They're parked outside Late Night Video YEP,

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playfully arguing about what to rent.

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Yeah, he goes in and then this is where they

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reveal a little bit more of his backstory of why

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he's actually at Late Night Video, why his wife is

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sitting in the car. You notice a mysterious gentleman staring

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from across the street at the car the entire time

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he's in the video store. Uh, this is where you

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find out he's kind of like a fixer, kind of

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clean up guy, like, oh yo, someone money collect Yeah yeah, yeah.

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But uh it's inside the video store. We are treated

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to the greatest cameo ever. Now, Garrett, we're not gonna

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mention him, no, because I don't want to. I don't

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want to ruin it for people that haven't seen the

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movie yet. But how happy were you when when he

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walked out.

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When Hank we could say his name, the character when

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the character walks out. Honestly, I was blown away to

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see him in this film and just his back and

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forth with Pedro Pascal. For those I want to say,

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it's probably about three to five minutes. They're a little

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back and forth, Yeah, but it was truly extraordinary.

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Yeah, guys talking about the underdog as a character in film,

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how we relate to said characters, and then quizzes Pedro

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Pascal's Clint character, which we're not going to get into

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right now. I know we need to take I know

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we need to take another quick break, so we're gonna

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do that for the sponsors. But when we get back,

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we'll continue our conversation about Chapter three starring Pedro Pascal.

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You know what, Actually, I do want to talk more

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about Hank. So I know those of you listening on

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our Patreon, you know it's ad free, So we're going

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to dive into this specific scene a little bit more.

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And to those of you not listening on Patreon. We'll

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be right back after this message. Welcome back, everybody. Well,

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Garrett and I've been over on Patreon talking about what

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we think maybe is our favorite scene of the movie.

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But we are back on your streaming app of choice

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talking about Anna Boden and r in Flex anthology film

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Freaky Tales. So Garrett, jumping back into uh chapter three,

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Born to Mac Pedro, asks for some very specific nineteen

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eighty six movies, Big Trouble in Little China, tough guys,

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ruthless people, and the color of money. And when you

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string them together, we realize it's code talk because this

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video store is a front for illegal gambling.

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Yes it is.

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I didn't pick up on that the first time.

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No, no, I had no idea. As soon as I

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heard Big Trouble in Little China, I just got excited

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because I'm like Kurt Russell, there it is.

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Yeah, Well, I'm thinking like we got green, we got

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a green glow happened in this movie. I'm talking too,

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Trouble on China. But think about it like tough guys,

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you know, the color of money.

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Yep, and ruthless people. They're running an illegal underground gambling

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casino down there.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, there's a guy in that base that Pedro goes

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and pays a visit to that U is in the

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hole a little bit, and again as payment, he goes

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ahead and forfeits his tickets to the Golden State Warriors.

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First four, Yes.

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Sir, easily worth a thousand dollars, maybe five hundred. Jack

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Nicholson would pay a thousand dollars. Do you know Jack Nicholson?

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Well no, but okay, sorry.

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Will anyone buy these tickets? I'll give you fifty.

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Oh yeah. The Asian guy who is great because he yes,

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he gets he gets the better of that, uh.

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Just undercutting him at every turn of.

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Oh gosh, yeah yeah. Uh. I love the I love

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the love for the ninety ay six movies because obviously,

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with exception to Tough Guys, we covered all those on

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our limited ninety eighty six ers, So go back and

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check that on. I love this. I love this movie

476
00:26:52.279 --> 00:26:54.000
because it's given me a chance to talk about all

477
00:26:54.000 --> 00:26:58.359
the episodes that we've done in the past. So it's

478
00:26:58.359 --> 00:27:00.200
like the plug episode. It's fantastic.

479
00:27:00.680 --> 00:27:04.240
It is. Yeah, it's that great little flashback. And since

480
00:27:04.279 --> 00:27:06.720
we cover a lot of the stuff of the flashback

481
00:27:06.759 --> 00:27:09.519
air I mean, yeah, it's right up our alley.

482
00:27:09.839 --> 00:27:12.839
So speaking of the flashback era, can we talk about

483
00:27:12.839 --> 00:27:17.839
the details of this kid selling his East Bay mixtape,

484
00:27:18.319 --> 00:27:22.160
because you know, now we flash back to the reality

485
00:27:22.200 --> 00:27:24.960
where Pedro has lost his wife and his kid. He's

486
00:27:25.000 --> 00:27:27.640
in his car, he's about to end it, and this

487
00:27:27.720 --> 00:27:29.680
kid comes up selling mixtapes.

488
00:27:29.799 --> 00:27:35.279
Comes up selling mixtapes. At first, he's selling it as well, yeah,

489
00:27:35.319 --> 00:27:37.400
it's got this hip hop artist on it, it's got

490
00:27:37.400 --> 00:27:39.519
this one on it. And then he's like, but if

491
00:27:39.559 --> 00:27:42.359
you're not feeling that, it's got some metallica on it,

492
00:27:42.359 --> 00:27:44.680
it's got some prints on it. And it's like, hold

493
00:27:44.759 --> 00:27:45.880
on what wait?

494
00:27:46.160 --> 00:27:49.240
Okay, so this mixtape and I had to watch this

495
00:27:49.319 --> 00:27:52.839
twice to get them all too short, rich and Rich

496
00:27:53.359 --> 00:27:55.799
and Tower Power. Yeah, and he's like, I know you're

497
00:27:55.839 --> 00:27:58.880
down with short, but if you don't like rap, it's

498
00:27:58.880 --> 00:28:03.960
got Slide, the Family, the Pointer Sisters, Shila E. It's

499
00:28:04.000 --> 00:28:08.920
got the Grateful Dead, Operation Ivy. It's even got Metallica.

500
00:28:09.000 --> 00:28:10.920
So, which is freaking amazing.

501
00:28:11.960 --> 00:28:15.359
If if someone has not already made the East Bay

502
00:28:15.400 --> 00:28:19.240
Mixtape as a playlist on Spotify, they have got to

503
00:28:19.240 --> 00:28:22.480
get on it because this this mixtape was fantastic, and.

504
00:28:22.440 --> 00:28:25.519
Uh yeah, this is like when the Guardians a Galaxy

505
00:28:25.680 --> 00:28:28.400
released the actual mixtape that he's listening to that they

506
00:28:28.440 --> 00:28:29.759
need to do that for this film.

507
00:28:30.039 --> 00:28:32.839
And the fun thing here it's it's the East Bay

508
00:28:32.839 --> 00:28:37.319
Mixtape because every artist that he names got their start

509
00:28:37.400 --> 00:28:39.920
in or near the Bay Area in the eighties.

510
00:28:40.599 --> 00:28:43.200
Okay, that actually makes sense. You know Metallica and all

511
00:28:43.240 --> 00:28:45.079
them out from California and Too Short.

512
00:28:45.279 --> 00:28:46.880
Yeah. Yeah, so I was like, well, I know two

513
00:28:46.880 --> 00:28:48.920
Shorts from Oakland, and I know Metallica grew up in

514
00:28:48.920 --> 00:28:51.200
the in the Bay but yep. And I was like,

515
00:28:51.279 --> 00:28:53.960
I was like, wait, what about did the Pointer sisters

516
00:28:53.960 --> 00:28:56.000
come from? And right you went down the list, I

517
00:28:56.000 --> 00:28:56.559
was like, yep.

518
00:28:56.400 --> 00:28:59.039
They're all They're all from that down that rabbit hole.

519
00:28:59.519 --> 00:29:04.240
Yeah. So Clint, you know Pedro Pascal, he's faced with

520
00:29:04.359 --> 00:29:08.480
the the quote unquote one more job trope, which is

521
00:29:08.519 --> 00:29:11.680
always a fun thing in action movies. You know, I'm out,

522
00:29:11.799 --> 00:29:14.720
no one more and then you're out. You know what'd

523
00:29:14.759 --> 00:29:15.400
you think of that one?

524
00:29:15.960 --> 00:29:20.279
I love that because he gives him two options and

525
00:29:20.319 --> 00:29:25.640
then he's like, I'll take option three essentially three. Yeah,

526
00:29:25.680 --> 00:29:28.279
there's no option three burns the money in front of

527
00:29:28.319 --> 00:29:31.160
Him's like, I know, I'm out. And then it's pretty

528
00:29:31.240 --> 00:29:33.359
much like, all right, we've got to hit on you now,

529
00:29:33.519 --> 00:29:36.240
you're you're done, this is your last day of living.

530
00:29:36.640 --> 00:29:42.680
Yeah, So he gives option three. He delivers one of

531
00:29:42.720 --> 00:29:45.799
what I will say are the two best lines in

532
00:29:45.839 --> 00:29:50.720
this movie, like catch phrases. So Pedro gives him the

533
00:29:51.440 --> 00:29:54.880
I'll see you in Hell with a gasoline suit. Now

534
00:29:55.920 --> 00:30:00.240
I immediately recognized that phrase. Did that Did that phrase ring

535
00:30:00.240 --> 00:30:02.160
a bell to you? Have you? Have you heard that before?

536
00:30:02.640 --> 00:30:03.079
I have not.

537
00:30:03.440 --> 00:30:08.839
No, So in March of nineteen eighty nine, Pete Rose

538
00:30:10.000 --> 00:30:13.079
said I'd walk through Hell in a gasoline suit to

539
00:30:13.079 --> 00:30:18.000
play baseball. So again like the throwback nostalgia to like

540
00:30:18.000 --> 00:30:23.240
the eighties old Charlie hustle himself. Yeah, and I'm gonna

541
00:30:23.240 --> 00:30:25.599
get to the other catchphrase that I thought was as

542
00:30:25.599 --> 00:30:27.039
soon as I heard it, I was like, oh, that's

543
00:30:27.039 --> 00:30:30.000
a Garrett that's a Gret Gibson phrase right there, you know.

544
00:30:30.240 --> 00:30:31.839
And I'll get to that here because we got to

545
00:30:31.839 --> 00:30:35.440
talk about the last chapter, Chapter four, the Legend of

546
00:30:35.480 --> 00:30:38.839
Sleepy Floyd, And can I just say I feel like

547
00:30:38.960 --> 00:30:44.000
each chapter is better than the first one before it.

548
00:30:44.000 --> 00:30:45.680
It just keeps This movie just keeps building up and

549
00:30:45.680 --> 00:30:46.480
getting better and better.

550
00:30:46.880 --> 00:30:49.920
I'll agree with you on that. And just the portrayal

551
00:30:50.079 --> 00:30:54.119
of Sleepy Floyd by j Ellis is freaking phenomenal in

552
00:30:54.119 --> 00:30:54.920
this movie.

553
00:30:55.039 --> 00:30:58.599
Amazing, he really is. Where's Jay Ellis from? Have we

554
00:30:58.640 --> 00:30:59.480
seen him in something?

555
00:31:00.079 --> 00:31:01.680
Due? No, I've done.

556
00:31:01.720 --> 00:31:04.240
I can't believe that he's got to be somebody.

557
00:31:04.279 --> 00:31:07.640
It's nothing like really too big, And I'm like, why

558
00:31:07.839 --> 00:31:10.519
hasn't he like this? This guy's amazing.

559
00:31:11.200 --> 00:31:14.079
He's doing these weird infomercial things like they're cutting like

560
00:31:14.200 --> 00:31:16.640
they're almost doing like a RoboCop thing like where they're going. Yes,

561
00:31:17.079 --> 00:31:18.960
like with the infomercials popping.

562
00:31:18.759 --> 00:31:23.039
Up here and there kids with him. What's the cytropics

563
00:31:23.119 --> 00:31:28.640
or something psy tropics, tropics, cytropics there it is spics

564
00:31:28.799 --> 00:31:30.279
y tropics.

565
00:31:30.440 --> 00:31:33.079
Yeah, it's almost like a And again, you gotta remember

566
00:31:33.119 --> 00:31:34.960
back in the eighties, like we had like uh l

567
00:31:35.039 --> 00:31:37.759
Ron Hubbard dianetics that was like becoming. It was like

568
00:31:37.799 --> 00:31:42.920
the the ground floor of like you know whatever that

569
00:31:42.960 --> 00:31:43.319
what's the.

570
00:31:43.319 --> 00:31:46.039
What's the scientology?

571
00:31:46.079 --> 00:31:48.079
Scientology? Yeah, it was like it was Yeah. So I'm

572
00:31:48.119 --> 00:31:49.640
like watching I'm like, well, that's why we're going with

573
00:31:49.640 --> 00:31:53.039
that stuff, you know, astral projections and using your mind

574
00:31:53.079 --> 00:31:57.440
over over matter. But uh so we're back again with

575
00:31:57.519 --> 00:31:59.720
the Nazis from chapter one, and now it's their point

576
00:31:59.720 --> 00:32:04.759
of view. Lo and behold, creepy sexist cop Ben Mendelssohn

577
00:32:04.799 --> 00:32:09.599
is back. And if he wasn't abhorrent enough before, now

578
00:32:09.640 --> 00:32:14.039
we discover he's a homophobic racist and he's secretly controlling

579
00:32:14.079 --> 00:32:16.160
the Nazis and this crime ring.

580
00:32:16.759 --> 00:32:20.319
The fact that he plays the father of the head

581
00:32:20.400 --> 00:32:24.839
neo Nazi. Yeah, honestly, once you come across today, it's like,

582
00:32:24.960 --> 00:32:27.359
you know what, I'm not surprised you're dirt bagging this

583
00:32:27.400 --> 00:32:32.160
film anyway. Yeah. Yeah, And then for them to be like, Okay,

584
00:32:32.200 --> 00:32:34.319
who do we have in town that's playing this big

585
00:32:34.359 --> 00:32:38.559
game right now? Okay, we're playing against the Lakers. Let's

586
00:32:38.599 --> 00:32:40.440
go ahead and send some people over to his house

587
00:32:40.480 --> 00:32:42.240
to just burgle it real quick.

588
00:32:42.279 --> 00:32:46.119
There we go, Yeah, who has the best stuff? Turns

589
00:32:46.119 --> 00:32:49.960
out Sleepy Floyd has invested quite a bit of his

590
00:32:50.079 --> 00:32:55.200
fortune in art, fine art and collectibles. And that brings

591
00:32:55.279 --> 00:32:58.119
us to May tenth, nineteen eighty seven. It's Game four

592
00:32:58.160 --> 00:33:01.880
between the Warriors and the Lakers. I love that they

593
00:33:01.960 --> 00:33:05.160
chose to animate the game as they're they're talking about

594
00:33:05.160 --> 00:33:07.119
the game. And I don't know if that's whether that's

595
00:33:07.119 --> 00:33:10.200
a choice, like whether that's a creative choice or that's

596
00:33:10.200 --> 00:33:13.279
a because we get animation in mixed in throughout this movie,

597
00:33:13.319 --> 00:33:15.960
which is kind of cool, or maybe they were just like, hey,

598
00:33:15.960 --> 00:33:18.279
we can't We're not gonna pay the NBA to show

599
00:33:18.559 --> 00:33:22.279
game foot now. But it works as the with the animation,

600
00:33:22.319 --> 00:33:23.240
it's so much better.

601
00:33:23.160 --> 00:33:26.920
True does yes? Uh, now we'll give a shout out

602
00:33:27.039 --> 00:33:29.519
just because we're you know in this fourth story to

603
00:33:29.960 --> 00:33:33.680
Angus Cloud and the gentleman that played Travis that tells

604
00:33:33.720 --> 00:33:36.519
him off about Sleepy Floyd's house. Yeah, he was in

605
00:33:36.519 --> 00:33:39.519
this film and Abigail, both in twenty twenty four and

606
00:33:39.559 --> 00:33:42.359
he ended up passing away. This was the final two

607
00:33:42.359 --> 00:33:43.240
films he worked on.

608
00:33:43.400 --> 00:33:47.599
No, yep, yeah, that's where I know. Okay, now I know,

609
00:33:47.680 --> 00:33:48.400
now I recommend it.

610
00:33:48.720 --> 00:33:53.480
Yeah, he was the shaved head, dirt bag looking guy

611
00:33:53.519 --> 00:33:57.519
and al as well. Shockingly enough, but was your buddy

612
00:33:57.559 --> 00:34:02.240
Kevin Durant, right, Evin Durant, Yes, sir, yeah that yeah, yeah,

613
00:34:02.279 --> 00:34:04.640
he had those two and a few others in the

614
00:34:04.680 --> 00:34:07.799
pipeline and he ended up passing away, you know, early

615
00:34:08.880 --> 00:34:11.880
younger gentleman. So we'll give that shout out, because dude,

616
00:34:11.920 --> 00:34:14.639
both films were freaking awesome what I have seen of him,

617
00:34:14.679 --> 00:34:17.159
So you know, at least leaven a little bit of

618
00:34:17.159 --> 00:34:18.400
a legacy in there behind.

619
00:34:18.559 --> 00:34:20.920
I'm glad you bring him up. I know we haven't

620
00:34:20.920 --> 00:34:24.599
really dug into like the actors, the actresses in this one,

621
00:34:24.679 --> 00:34:26.559
where this is almost like a glorified back to the

622
00:34:26.559 --> 00:34:29.800
box office since it's a brand new movie. Yeah, but

623
00:34:30.280 --> 00:34:35.079
you know, I'm happy that you you mentioned him again.

624
00:34:35.159 --> 00:34:38.119
We're dipping it. We're blending reality with fiction. In this movie.

625
00:34:39.039 --> 00:34:44.239
Game four, Sleepy Floyd scores fifty one points, twenty nine

626
00:34:44.280 --> 00:34:47.079
of those happening in a single quarter, and that's a

627
00:34:47.079 --> 00:34:49.159
record that has yet to be broken in the NBA.

628
00:34:49.320 --> 00:34:51.119
And I just, you know, like, I've never been the

629
00:34:51.119 --> 00:34:53.639
biggest NBA guy, you know. I love watching Jordan in

630
00:34:53.679 --> 00:34:56.199
his prime. Yeah, but the fact that I didn't know

631
00:34:56.480 --> 00:34:58.559
Sleepy Floyd, Like, I'm like, oh, is he real? Is

632
00:34:58.559 --> 00:35:00.800
he not? I'm like, well, he must be guy, And

633
00:35:00.840 --> 00:35:02.719
I'm like, come on, who's gonna score twenty nine points

634
00:35:02.719 --> 00:35:07.000
in a single No that's but that it happens, but uh,

635
00:35:08.360 --> 00:35:13.840
tragedy ensues. The bikers slash Nazi slash scumbags. They break in,

636
00:35:14.840 --> 00:35:20.079
Sleepy's family is murdered during the boxed robbery, and this

637
00:35:20.159 --> 00:35:23.840
gears up to one of my second favorite moments in

638
00:35:23.840 --> 00:35:26.119
this movie. First moment being what we talked about on

639
00:35:26.159 --> 00:35:31.800
our Patreon takeaway there, but Sleepy meditates in the in

640
00:35:31.840 --> 00:35:35.239
what I'm gonna call the weapons room yep, and then

641
00:35:35.320 --> 00:35:38.480
gears up as Metallica's for whom the bell told plays.

642
00:35:38.800 --> 00:35:42.039
Now, I've gotta tell you this is so the movie

643
00:35:42.280 --> 00:35:46.000
reminiscence me have two different things here. It gives me

644
00:35:46.199 --> 00:35:49.719
major kill bill vibes. Yeah, and it also like just

645
00:35:49.920 --> 00:35:53.119
how he's dressed and how he's gearing up. It reminds

646
00:35:53.159 --> 00:35:55.840
me of that original Blade film with Leslie Snipes and

647
00:35:55.960 --> 00:35:57.920
I got perfect mix between those two.

648
00:35:58.480 --> 00:36:00.679
It's it's what we I never knew that we needed

649
00:36:00.679 --> 00:36:04.400
that mashup, and it's it's here. He's he's even on

650
00:36:04.440 --> 00:36:07.559
the bike. He's like racing, racing to the strong, the

651
00:36:07.639 --> 00:36:10.639
Nazi strong hold on the on the motorcycle, Garrett. I

652
00:36:10.880 --> 00:36:13.719
think he slaughters maybe eighteen bikers and Nazis before I

653
00:36:14.039 --> 00:36:19.159
before I lost count. But yeah, just just when I

654
00:36:19.159 --> 00:36:22.440
had thought I had seen him slay enough scumbags, he

655
00:36:23.280 --> 00:36:27.599
Mortal Kombat style tears a guy's heart from his beating chest.

656
00:36:28.039 --> 00:36:29.280
Which is freaking amazing.

657
00:36:29.840 --> 00:36:33.639
And then he explodes Ben Mendelssohn like he's in Scanners.

658
00:36:33.280 --> 00:36:34.679
Yes, he does that.

659
00:36:34.800 --> 00:36:36.119
It's just so good.

660
00:36:36.760 --> 00:36:39.079
It is amazing.

661
00:36:39.599 --> 00:36:42.400
Okay, So the one thing I'm thinking when this one

662
00:36:42.480 --> 00:36:45.559
kicks off, yeah, I'm a little disappointed because I'm like, wait,

663
00:36:46.239 --> 00:36:50.079
is Ben Mendelsson just a piece of shit that's gonna

664
00:36:50.079 --> 00:36:52.400
get away with being a piece of ship? And then

665
00:36:52.400 --> 00:36:54.119
when he shows up in this one, I'm like, Okay,

666
00:36:54.679 --> 00:36:58.159
someone has got to get him. Someone's got to bring him.

667
00:36:58.480 --> 00:37:02.760
To justice exactly, and you're how this is going to

668
00:37:02.800 --> 00:37:05.880
play out. And then as Sleepy Floyd is tearing his

669
00:37:05.960 --> 00:37:09.719
way through the neo Nazi stronghold, he comes across our

670
00:37:09.760 --> 00:37:13.840
good buddy, Pedro Pascal that has been kidnapped by those Nazis,

671
00:37:14.400 --> 00:37:16.719
and Sleepy Floyd helps him get free. So that's a

672
00:37:16.800 --> 00:37:18.639
that's a fricking win right there as well?

673
00:37:18.800 --> 00:37:22.199
Yeah it is. And the whole idea, like you're at

674
00:37:22.199 --> 00:37:25.159
this point, if you're wondering what are these weird infomercials

675
00:37:25.199 --> 00:37:29.360
all about. There's a moment where as the carnage is

676
00:37:29.400 --> 00:37:33.519
going on, we cut back to Sleepy's house and he's

677
00:37:33.559 --> 00:37:37.079
in his vault, still meditating, and that's when I was like,

678
00:37:37.079 --> 00:37:40.760
wait a minute, he's this is all astral projection. He's

679
00:37:40.760 --> 00:37:44.559
not even at the place. He's just no cutting through them,

680
00:37:44.679 --> 00:37:46.559
which kind of explains how he can go through like

681
00:37:46.599 --> 00:37:50.559
twenty or thirty thirty bad guys and just slay them.

682
00:37:50.639 --> 00:37:53.559
But at that point the movie hits another level from him,

683
00:37:53.559 --> 00:37:56.400
like I can't even believe that this is what I've

684
00:37:56.400 --> 00:38:00.639
been watching the whole time, Like exactly, Yeah, man.

685
00:38:01.159 --> 00:38:04.159
It explains why when Pedro Pascal is walking out in

686
00:38:04.159 --> 00:38:06.719
the not like the younger Nazi kids are coming in

687
00:38:07.360 --> 00:38:09.360
that you don't see sweepy floor it again and it's

688
00:38:09.400 --> 00:38:13.039
like he was never really there's a projection.

689
00:38:13.199 --> 00:38:18.360
Yeah. Yeah, it's awesome, dude, It's absolutely awesome. Uh. I'll

690
00:38:18.400 --> 00:38:20.440
tell you something. We we didn't really talk a whole

691
00:38:20.480 --> 00:38:22.920
lot about what Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck have directed.

692
00:38:22.960 --> 00:38:24.960
I know they've done some some great television, They've done

693
00:38:25.119 --> 00:38:29.119
a handful of movies. We mentioned Captain Marvel. I think

694
00:38:29.159 --> 00:38:32.400
they did a one. It's kind of a funny story. Yes,

695
00:38:32.519 --> 00:38:34.440
if you saw that, they've done some great they won

696
00:38:34.519 --> 00:38:39.519
some festivals with some of their short films. But I

697
00:38:39.559 --> 00:38:42.119
am excited about what they've got coming next. I don't

698
00:38:42.119 --> 00:38:42.800
know about you, but.

699
00:38:43.719 --> 00:38:47.519
He is, like, yeah, after this film right here, I

700
00:38:48.000 --> 00:38:51.039
think if they followed up with anything that is even

701
00:38:51.079 --> 00:38:55.000
remotely as amazing as this, you will see them back

702
00:38:55.119 --> 00:38:58.719
in either the MCU or the DCU or whatever it

703
00:38:58.800 --> 00:39:02.079
may be, directing another one of these huge box office films.

704
00:39:02.159 --> 00:39:06.480
Because after delivering something like this with so much like

705
00:39:07.199 --> 00:39:11.960
already known talent or new talent, I think the sky's

706
00:39:11.960 --> 00:39:14.679
the limit for them. This duo is pretty freaking awesome.

707
00:39:14.960 --> 00:39:17.239
They're literally a real life danger zone.

708
00:39:17.559 --> 00:39:22.159
Yeah, it's as we said, it's streaming on HBO Max.

709
00:39:23.000 --> 00:39:24.719
I don't think it's any spoiler say that we both

710
00:39:24.840 --> 00:39:27.360
recommend the hell out of this movie, right Oh?

711
00:39:27.440 --> 00:39:30.199
Absolutely, yeah. I mean I would give this two thumbs

712
00:39:30.239 --> 00:39:31.000
up any day of the.

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Week and make sure when the credits starts to roll,

714
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don't turn it off. You know, HBO Max likes to

715
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minimize it and then tell you like, yes, what's coming

716
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up next? Go back into it because there is a

717
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fun Easter egg which I won't spoil. And then there's

718
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we get the danger Zone music video, right.

719
00:39:52.800 --> 00:39:54.599
We sure as heck do yes, sir.

720
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Yeah, we didn't mention Entice played by it's our feature

721
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film Normani yet sir, believe it's from a popular group.

722
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Also did Dancing with the Stars. Fantastic young actress. I

723
00:40:11.239 --> 00:40:13.519
mean everyone in this movie really knocked it out of

724
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the park. I know we we kind of move, you know,

725
00:40:16.280 --> 00:40:19.920
blurred through all the actors and actresses, but for the

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sake of time. But just a hands down, just an

727
00:40:22.599 --> 00:40:27.239
excellent cast on this film. Well, listeners, what do you

728
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think of Freaky Tails? Have you seen it? Are you

729
00:40:30.840 --> 00:40:32.559
going to see it? Now that you know where it's at,

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you can let us know on social media. You'll find

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a film by podcast dot com for links to all

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Hint hint, Patreon link is there. You should probably sign

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up because there's extra stuff. There's Garrett. There's like seventy

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something episodes now that we've got over there. Yeh yeah,

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and listen if you're like Hey, you know, I don't know.

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I don't know yet. Just remember there's a seven day

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free trial you can you can check it out and

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can sign up for free. Because we are we're still

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dropping free free episodes over there. We try to do

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it like every every every month, like one a month,

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maybe sometimes one every other month. But there's some good

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episodes over there. All you got to do is just

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an email address, get you signed up, and then you

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got access. So check it out. Write to us at

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a film by Podcast at gmail dot com with their questions,

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comments and concerns. We may just read your response on

751
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the show and send you some a film by swag Garrett.

752
00:41:42.440 --> 00:41:45.360
In the past, we our first run of T shirts.

753
00:41:45.679 --> 00:41:48.400
I know, we sent out several T shirts just because

754
00:41:48.440 --> 00:41:52.320
we would randomly pick someone's email or Facebook comment so

755
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or you know, Instagram comments. So as as you already know, Garrett,

756
00:41:57.719 --> 00:41:59.960
we've got the brand new the twenty twenty five T shirt.

757
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I'm wearing one right now, looking damn good.

758
00:42:03.199 --> 00:42:05.599
Thank you, sir, I appreciate you. Uh, we might send

759
00:42:05.639 --> 00:42:08.199
you one of those, uh, all you gotta do is

760
00:42:08.400 --> 00:42:12.480
reach out. Garrett. You're back next week to kick off

761
00:42:12.639 --> 00:42:16.039
Week one of the NFL season with me, right. Uh,

762
00:42:16.199 --> 00:42:18.519
you wanna tell the listeners what we're talking about.

763
00:42:19.360 --> 00:42:22.320
Uh, we're gonna go ahead and discuss Uh a little

764
00:42:22.440 --> 00:42:24.599
Kianna Reeves film. You may have heard of it.

765
00:42:24.559 --> 00:42:29.880
It's called The Replacements, a film by Howard Deutsch, The Replacements.

766
00:42:29.920 --> 00:42:31.840
I love that movie, and it does not get the

767
00:42:31.880 --> 00:42:32.679
love that it should.

768
00:42:32.800 --> 00:42:35.119
So it doesn't. But I'm gonna tell you right now

769
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that's gonna get me ready for football season.

770
00:42:37.800 --> 00:42:39.280
All right, we'll see you next week.

771
00:42:39.119 --> 00:42:41.920
Brother, yes, sir, And to all of.

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You listening to the show, following us on social media,

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and subscribing to our Patreon, we thank you.

774
00:42:48.960 --> 00:42:52.719
These all the tales, the freaky tales. These are the

775
00:42:52.840 --> 00:42:56.360
tales that I tail so well. These are the tales,

776
00:42:56.480 --> 00:42:59.960
the freaky tales. These are the tales that I tail

777
00:43:00.199 --> 00:43:00.800
so well.

778
00:43:01.119 --> 00:43:04.639
I met this girl. Her name was Joan. She loved

779
00:43:04.639 --> 00:43:07.639
the way I rocked on the mic reformed. When I

780
00:43:07.719 --> 00:43:11.119
met Joan, I took her home. She was just like

781
00:43:11.159 --> 00:43:14.760
a doggie, awe on my bumps. I met another girl,

782
00:43:15.000 --> 00:43:18.519
her name was Anne Or She wanted, what's the freak

783
00:43:18.559 --> 00:43:21.840
with a miss. When I met Anne, I shook her

784
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head