Post Vampira: Maila Nurmi Part 3

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
go.
I was gonna say this is postvampire.
This is post vampire myla nurmy, part three.
We're going to do this in fourparts because she deserves it,
baby, she deserves it.
Hello and welcome to Dead andKind of Famous, where we dig

(00:38):
into the life stories of deadfolks who enjoyed a touch or two
of fame in their time and nowreside permanently in the
Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
I'm Marissa Rivera and I knownothing, but I do know that LA
is awesome and I'm so proud ofus as a people, as a city I

(01:00):
don't know there was like thefires were crazy, so this is our
first post fire episode and myGod, it was insane.
But the outpouring of communityand love and togetherness has

(01:20):
been the only silver lining ofall this.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Yeah, sure, but I mean, like I think that any kind
of natural disaster or justdisaster, tragedy, whatever,
when you know it is, when youstart to realize, like what kind
of community you have.
And so I think that this was avery the community was very
strong.
Very helpful and beautiful.

(01:48):
Yeah, and beautiful, and I know.
Yeah, like we were, we wereseparated during the time that I
recorded the last episode.
I hated that.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
Yeah, I hated it.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
It was a bummer and I and I we drove to Utah because
because we Courtney and herhusband and baby were in utah.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
We were like we need fresher.
But you know what?

Speaker 2 (02:09):
it's st george utah.
Not bad if you're when you'retrying to, like you know, escape
from la like kurt russell yougo to utah and it's a gorgeous
thing.
So, um, yeah, but oh, and Ididn't introduce myself.
I'm corny blomquist and I knowway too much, but I don't know,

(02:32):
um, I don't know how to function.
That's why we're late with thisepisode that.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
That's why it's going to be four parts.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
No, I there's just.
You know, when it rains, itpours, and it should pour.
In LA, by the way, it has beenraining.
It's just great Beautifulbeautiful rain.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
Just like just the perfect amount of rain yeah
exactly Like it starts and stops.
There's enough time to take thedogs out there's, it's not so
rough that it's mud slidey.
I mean, we'll see.
It's about to rain tomorrowagain, so we'll, we'll see.
We'll see the second rounds,but we shouldn't speak too soon.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
but it's, it's, yeah, Anyway, there's, it's, it's all
.
So it's just.
You know it's a lot.
I just want everybody to know,in case it wasn't clear, I don't
get paid to do this, Neither doI, and neither does Marissa.
And we talk a lot about peoplegetting paid, but we just do

(03:39):
this from the goodness of ourhearts and I do sometimes have
to dedicate time to, you know,the child that I chose to bring
into this world and also the jobthat pays for her life so yep,
yep, yep, yep.
So that's where we're at rightnow um, so sorry for the delays,
but that's just what's up.
But oh, that being said, I'mgonna say this at the end.
I'm gonna say it again now um,I would love for you to tell me

(04:02):
that you're annoyed with me,people.
I would love for you to tell methat you love what we're doing,
that you're like that I waswrong about saying something.
Please write us a review.
Yeah, on apple podcasts,preferably.
Write us a review and tell uswhat you think and you know what
.
I'm not even going to be one ofthose people who's like leave a
five star review.
You can tell us whatever youwant.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
I want, want to know the truth, your truth, I might
bite back but you'll know ourtruth.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
But but um you know, you'll get a shout out.
It'll be fun, It'll be fun.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
It'll be a dialogue.
Yeah, It'll be like a a like, alike.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
I'll be like Kendrick Lamar.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
Turn it into a rap battle.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
Damn, that was so good that was so good, I know,
Can you imagine winning a Grammyfor like?

Speaker 1 (04:55):
The best diss track of all time For talking shit
about someone.
Oh my God, a dream, a dream,anyway.
Anyway, speaking of dreams,yeah, myla, let's come back to
you, let's go back to my dream,anyway.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
Anyway, speaking of dreams, yeah, myla, let's come
back to you, let's go back toyou, let's go back to Myla.
Okay, when we last left Mylashe was contemplating an offer
from infamous B movie directorEd Wood to appear in his next
film.
But Ed would have to wait forhis answer because Myla had some
more pressing opportunities topartake in.

Speaker 1 (05:26):
Oh, she had options, baby.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
She did.
First off, khjtv had expressedinterest in doing the vampire
show for their network Because,remember, the vampire show had
gotten canceled, and so this isa new network being like.
We want to.
We want to buy the rights, yes.
And as soon as that discussionbegan, milo was granted even

(05:52):
more gifts from the gig.
Gods, oh, work begets work,baby, that's right.
First she was chosen to do atwo-day stint in vegas promoting
a film from the fast and cheapproduction company aip called it
conquered the world, starringpeter graves and beverly garland
I love that they it was knownas if fast and cheap.

(06:16):
Yeah, for sure they were likelet's turn it out.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
Yeah, let's go, let's pump it, okay, um it's also
funny that she beverly garland,beverly, garland, we don't know.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
And peter graves, we don't know.
No judy garland family no, I'mpretty sure this was a b movie
yeah, but no, no familyassociation to judy I have no
idea.
I'm not gonna lie, but I doubtit highly.
I'm gonna look it up right now.
She's like the.
She's like the lesser garlandthat's funny.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
Yeah, look it up, beverly garland that sounds like
just an intersection it soundslike a neighborhood beverly
garland, beverly garland.
There's a bever Beverly Garlandhotel Family.
No, beverly Garland was notrelated to Julie Garland.

(07:10):
Beverly Garland was bornBeverly Lucy Fassenden, but took
the name Garland after marryingactor Richard.
Garland Was Richard related toJulie Garland Richard.
Garland, richard Garland, let'ssee.
No, richard Garland and JudyGarland were not related.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
They were not related .

Speaker 1 (07:36):
Richard Garland was an actor who was married to
Beverly Garland, but JulieGarland was born.
Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
Frances Ethel Gumm, that's right.
Gum, that's right, that's right.
I forgot a terrible name.
Goodness, that gum with two m's, by the way, if you didn't know
that gum yeah it's terrible, um, but the funnier thing is not
that it like honestly okay.
So Peter Graves and BeverlyGarland we haven't heard of them
, we don't know, but Myla wasn'teven in this movie.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
But you got paid to promote it, promote it.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
Um yeah, that's the shit.
None of the people wereavailable, so they decided to
use her to stir up someattention, and she did.
For two days she waschauffeured around in a hearse
to appear on cooking showsexercise shows, hosting horror
films and doing cameosthroughout the city of san
francisco and I just find itreally funny to be like and

(08:35):
here's vampire on this cookingshow, plugging a film that she
was not in.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
That's amazing.
I love like the fish out ofwater-ness of it all too.
Yeah.
Especially the cooking showthing, yeah, yeah.
That's great.
What a brilliant marketingscheme.
It's pretty good.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
She was paid $350 for her efforts and given a lovely
hotel suite during her stay.
But AIP was so pleased with thepress that Myla drummed up for
them that they doubled her payAfter the fact.

Speaker 1 (09:08):
Yes, that never happens, I know.

Speaker 2 (09:11):
They were very grateful.
Right after this, myla teamedup with an artist who loved
candelabras just as much as shedid.
Liberace himself, liberace.
Oh my God Behind thecandelabraace.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
Oh my God.

Speaker 4 (09:25):
Behind the candelabra , oh my.

Speaker 1 (09:28):
God what a film Anyway.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
Liberace himself had called upon Myla to perform in
his Vegas variety show Come asyou Are, and Liberace was the
highest paid entertainer in showbusiness at the time.
Wow, so the gig came with someserious clout seriously, that's
amazing I know right, like thevegas show of the biggest

(09:53):
performer of that, like thehighest paid performer of your
time.
That's a big deal yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (09:58):
Well, who would that be right now?
Maybe like adele, before shelike took some time off?
I don't know.
She like just was, like I gottatake some time off you know, a
few months ago, taylor.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
Swift, she didn't do a Vegas residency yeah, but she
could, and she's the highestpaid performer, right?

Speaker 1 (10:14):
oh, I guess yeah, so imagine like just being invited
onto Taylor Swift's show.

Speaker 2 (10:21):
Yeah, would be the equivalent.
She probably will have a Vegasshow at some point.
She's just going to wait untilshe's like 10 years old.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
Give it another 10 years, yeah, yeah yeah, she's
like I don't want to travelanymore.
All these planes, my privatejet.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
She's been a busy lady.
Anyway.
I don't know how, I do know,but anyway I'm moving on.
So her fortune came at themisfortune of her beloved bella
legosi.
No, he had been scheduled toperform with liberace, but when
he got seriously ill, milo waschosen to take his place.

(10:54):
Yeah, and this is there's justlike a lot of overlap actually
with her and um and bella, yeah,but so it's it's.
You know, I'm sure she felt alittle bittersweet about it.

Speaker 1 (11:06):
But who else would he have preferred to take his
place?

Speaker 2 (11:09):
It's the highest compliment.
Yes, yes.

Speaker 1 (11:11):
Listen, if Taylor Swift invites me onto her show,
let's bring it back to TaylorSwift and I get deathly ill.
I will say you know who youneed instead.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
Courtney Blum oh, my God, yes yes, she should take my
place that's a true friend Ican't like.
What would we be doing intaylor swift's show?

Speaker 1 (11:34):
what would we even be doing?

Speaker 2 (11:36):
no idea.

Speaker 1 (11:37):
Swifties don't come for me, but like I am, such I'm
so neutral about her same, I Idon't just I miss that boat, but
like I, you know, appreciatesome of her songs, but like I'm
not, you know, I just I can't.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
I'm a swifty neutral.
I can't be a super fan becauseI'm an adult right, I don't have
time.

Speaker 1 (12:00):
I'm not a super fan of like anyone or anything.

Speaker 2 (12:01):
No, if you're a super fan, you're willing to like go
to you're.
You're a super fan, you'rewilling to like go to your, your
groupie, essentially.
You're like, willing to like,shell out money.
I am not there.
Lots of money and time For me.
It's the time, it's the time.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
No, you got to be like a college a college student
, that's it yeah With likeparents money.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
Yeah, except I.
Parents money.
Yeah, except I was like I was agroupie for like a band.
No, what?
No, I wasn't.
But like I was, I was into, Imean, I was just like I was.
I I made effort for um tv onthe radio which was like early
2000s.
I were tens 2010s.
Yeah, so I, or maybe justanyway somewhere in there.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
I listen.
We're millennials, so 2000 andbetween 2000 and 2010.
That's it's.
It's the same thing, okay.
Yeah, but like that decade hasbeen lost.

Speaker 2 (12:55):
Right, that and the COVID years.
Yes, they are lost, but Iremember like I found out about
the secret concert that theywere doing and I was under age
and I had a fake ID and I walkedaround the block under age,
like under 18 or under 21, under21 okay, and I was walking
around the block and likethere's a security guard and
he's like, oh, there's a guestlist.

(13:15):
If there's an opening, I'll letyou know and let you in and then
I kept circling the block likeseven times and then he would
like, let me like.
He was like there's a spot youcan come in.
But then he looked at my ID andhe was like girl, give that
back to whoever you got thatfrom.
But then he let me in.

Speaker 1 (13:37):
That guy's a peep.
He's like, wow, these, they,they.
She tried she tried, and thesepeople deserve true fans in the
audience.
Yeah, no, so it was, but andit's funny because was it a good
show?

Speaker 2 (13:49):
yeah, and then I met.
I met them afterwards becauseit was so small you were a
groupie.

Speaker 1 (13:53):
I was a groupie.

Speaker 2 (13:54):
I was a little bit oh my god, cute yeah it was cute.
Um, that was yeah.
You can only be into bands inthat kind of way when you're in
your 20s.
There's just if you beyond that, I don't know too tired, too
tired, it's just yeah you got abad time um, okay.
So myla rolled into vegasprepared to perform with

(14:19):
labarachi with her ride or die.
Jack sim Simmons, all right, heis the third wheel of the.

Speaker 1 (14:26):
James Dean trio right .

Speaker 2 (14:28):
So she was powered by the steam of being booked and
blessed and saw her namedisplayed boldly on the marquee
of the Riviera.
It said Liberace come.
As you are featuring Vampyra.

Speaker 1 (14:44):
That's a really big deal.
That's a huge deal.
And the Vegas lights and themarquee oh, that's so exciting.

Speaker 2 (14:50):
It's very exciting.
The show consisted of a seriesof musical numbers.
I just want to pause and goback.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
This is my ADHD ass, I know we all.
We just talked about like notbeing, you know, whatever
Groupies or fans or whatever.
But if you want to be a fan ofours, we'll take you.
Okay, we'll take you, we'llwelcome you with open arms.
Don't be fucking weird, youknow.
But right, you'd be a littleweird, but don't be fucking

(15:17):
weird you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (15:18):
You know what I mean don't be creepy.

Speaker 1 (15:20):
Don't be creepy weird .
That's what I mean.
Okay, yeah, no stalkers oranything.
No stalkers, don't ask me forpictures of my feet.
It's funny.
Oh well, don't be creepy weird.
That's what I mean.
Okay, yeah, no stalkers oranything, no stalkers, don't ask
me for pictures of my feet it'sfunny, oh well don't we both
have a?

Speaker 2 (15:29):
wiki feed, it's true we have talked about that enough
, where we're like, don't talkabout our feet, but talk about
our feet I'm just flattered thatI have a wiki feet because,
honestly, like I broke my fifthmetatarsal in college like which
is the side bone on your footand it's just like there's a
lump you know, and still she'sgot a four, four.
That's probably like three anda half.

(15:51):
I haven't looked in a while,but I'm gonna look right now, I
don't think it's.

Speaker 1 (15:57):
You know, this is supposed to be a short episode
and here we are just yapping.

Speaker 2 (16:01):
I know, it's because we know that we have the time to
burn let's make sure thesepeople have an hour and a half
episode to listen to everyfucking week browse all celebs
who started this?
If you are the person whostarted my wiki feed, I would

(16:23):
like to know please stand uphere you are.

Speaker 1 (16:26):
How many photos does?
It change three and a halfthere's three photos yep, that's
so, nothing's changed three anda half, and one of them is of
me and one of them is marissa.
Two photos of you.
One of them is on me, high offmy ass, on mushrooms, on my 30th
birthday.

Speaker 2 (16:44):
Um, and the other two are of me like posing with a
statue and sitting in a chair bya lounge chair.
Yeah, three and a half stars.

Speaker 1 (16:51):
Three and a half stars Nice feet, it says in in.

Speaker 2 (16:56):
Oh, that's what.
Three and a half stars, threeand a half means nice feet.

Speaker 1 (16:59):
Okay, all right.

Speaker 2 (17:00):
No, I still want to know who you are if you started
it, because it definitely wasn'tme.
Oh my God, amazing.
Yes, back to Liberace.
Was he a foot man?
We don't know Anyway the showconsisted of a series of musical
numbers that allowed theaudience to travel across the
cities of the world through theages, with Liberace at the helm.

Speaker 1 (17:22):
What a fun captain, totally.

Speaker 2 (17:24):
Captain, my captain, sparkles glitz fringe.

Speaker 1 (17:28):
Take me, take me on a trip, liberace Take me, take me
, take me away.

Speaker 2 (17:35):
And it was Vampyra's job to speak to the audience in
between acts as a 500-year-oldundead corpse, and she actually
rose from a coffin to do each ofher segments iconic.
Yes, basically, her quippymonologues helped allow for
liberace's multiple elaboratecostume and set changes
throughout the show so it wasvery important.

Speaker 1 (17:55):
Yeah, yeah, you need a good transition.
Yes, a great transition, agreat transitional act.

Speaker 2 (18:05):
Right, Priceless.
Yeah, I mean they could havelike they could have been stuck
with like a trained dog thatlike went around in circles.
They could have had a juggler.

Speaker 1 (18:16):
Oh for.

Speaker 2 (18:16):
God's sakes not a juggler.
They could have had a badcomedian oh.

Speaker 1 (18:20):
And instead they got Myla, nurmi, amazing, amazing,
and instead they got Myla andHermie Amazing.

Speaker 2 (18:23):
Amazing, there seems to be one remaining clip of film
showing Myla and Liberace inrehearsals.
He is dressed as a jester, andthey are waltzing but no sound
exists to go with the footage.

Speaker 1 (18:40):
So I'm going to show you anyway.

Speaker 2 (18:42):
But so this is it.
Like you can see, he's bowing,she comes out, she's got her
little like.
The stage is smaller than Ithought it would be.
I think it's just a rehearsaland I don't know if it's this.
It's like, yeah, rehearsals,and he's like dressed as a
jester oh my gosh, and then theywaltz, oh yeah and she's so fun
.

Speaker 1 (19:02):
And her, she's so glamorous, her nails are so long
yeah, I remember that she madeher own nails.

Speaker 2 (19:12):
Oh yeah, she like molded plastic onto her fingers
she's like got her eyes rollingback in her head while she's
like waltzing with liberace as ajester.

Speaker 1 (19:22):
Yeah, and she's mugging at the camera and also
like, and he winks and he justwinks at the camera.
Oh my goodness.

Speaker 2 (19:28):
Yeah, so that's the only footage that exists from it
, but it's kind of fun, it isfun.

Speaker 1 (19:34):
Hell of a lot of fun.
Not kind of fun.

Speaker 2 (19:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (19:37):
That's a lot of fun yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:45):
Leading up to Liberace, and joining him and
his entourage as they attendedshows across the strip.
One of those shows was an earlyperformance from Elvis Presley
himself.
Ooh fun.
According to Myla, he waswearing teal eye makeup to match
his teal blazer and the oldercrowd he was performing for
ended up booing him.

(20:07):
Wow.
Because they're like you're aman wearing makeup what?

Speaker 1 (20:14):
No, boo, get off the stage.
I don't understand.
I don't understand how you liketo match your clothes.

Speaker 2 (20:22):
I don't understand how you have style and pizzazz.
I don't understand pizz clothes.
I don't understand how you havestyle and pizzazz.

Speaker 1 (20:27):
I don't understand pizzazz.
I don't.
What is this voice?
I don't know this voice, butit's boo.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
I've had a few drinks and I can't speak anymore, and
I won't speak one tone.
I want to go back to the crapstable.

Speaker 1 (20:48):
This teal eyeshadows make me feel like crap.

Speaker 2 (20:55):
Dumb Getting super dumb, getting some fresh air out
by the pool.
After the performance, myla sawElvis wander outside and called
him over to her.
She made sure to tell him thatthe audience that booed him were
all sheep.
True, yep, she said.

Speaker 1 (21:12):
They've never seen anyone like you.
Life magazine is going todiscover you and then everyone
will want to kiss your shoes,and then Elvis informed her that
to her point Life magazinewould be coming out next
Thursday then he said yes, wereyou prepared to do an Elvis

(21:35):
impression?

Speaker 2 (21:36):
because here you go.

Speaker 1 (21:40):
I know you're older and all ma'am, but you've been
awful kind.
If you care to come back afterthe second show, I'll be proud
to take you to my place and playa song for you, or something,
or something, or something.

Speaker 2 (22:01):
Uh-huh something, and Myla did go back to his room to
find out what he meant by that.
It was crowded with groupies,which we were just talking about
and band members and shedecided upon, looking around,
that she was, quote wiser thanall of the female competition

(22:24):
put together.
Elvis, I like that assessment.

Speaker 4 (22:31):
I am wiser, I am not older Wiser.

Speaker 1 (22:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (22:35):
Elvis grabbed a guitar and swooped.

Speaker 1 (22:37):
Not mutually exclusive.
No, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 2 (22:42):
We're just going to say wiser.
Elvis grabbed a guitar andswooped out of there with Myla
in tow to head back to her ownrealm.

Speaker 1 (22:53):
Yes, spicy, and he took the guitar.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
Yep.
He was like I'm going to dowhat I do.

Speaker 1 (22:58):
That reminded me of this one date that I went on.
Yes, this one date that I wenton.
Yeah, this one date that I wenton.
Okay, something to know aboutme is that I don't like romantic
gestures.
I don't like them, they make meuncomfortable and they're
cheesy.
So my first reaction is alwaysto laugh, and men don't like

(23:23):
being laughed at and men don'tlike being laughed at.
So so I've learned to uh temperthat for my own safety, um, but
I um, before I did, go back toa gentleman's uh um room and we
were just like sitting on hisbed chatting and then, apropos

(23:45):
of nothing, he pulled out hisdusty guitar case from under the
bed and pulled out his guitarand just started strumming and
singing.
I don't even.
We weren't talking about music,we weren't talking.
He just started strumming andsinging and I couldn't hold it

(24:06):
together.
I just started laughing and Iwas like.
I was like oh wow.
I was like this is the move.
This is the move, isn't it?
This is your closing move.
I'm seeing it unfold in realtime and I said that all to him
in his face and I was likelaughing I want to push you

(24:28):
around and I will, and I will.
Yeah, it was very much givingthat it was, and I was just like
I can't take it seriouslyanymore um that is really funny.

Speaker 2 (24:44):
I I had a guy in college who was like he knew,
kind of like in his mind anyway,that he could, like he's like I
can get, I can get men, I canget women, I can get whoever I
want.
So he like took it into thismoment of um where, like me and
this other guy thought that wewere just like working on stuff

(25:06):
that night, and then he pulledout the guitar and we both
realized that he was hitting onus at the same time and I don't
know if, like in his mind, hewanted us all together or if he
was just like whoever breaksfirst, I'll take you Whoever's
into this guitar solo whoeverbreaks first, whoever breaks

Speaker 1 (25:20):
first I'll take ya whoever's into this guitar solo.
It was a little it was.

Speaker 2 (25:27):
That's.
Yeah, I can say that's the onlytime that's happened to me.
Did you laugh?
What was your reaction?
I, me and the other guy, justlike we side eyed each other and
we were like, and then wetalked about it afterwards we
definitely talked shit about itafterwards.

Speaker 1 (25:38):
Afterwards, you're like so we were both getting hit
on, right like at the same time.
That's what was happening,right?
No, we were just like what thatwas yeah anyway, it was funny,
okay, so, um, okay.

Speaker 2 (25:52):
So there, let's go back.
Myla and elvis are.
They're going back to myla'sroom.
He's grabbed a guitar.
That's what's happening.
The only problem was that jacksimmons and her had been sharing
a hotel room, and when she cameback with Elvis he was in there
sleeping.
So Myla played it cool bysaying Jack, what are you doing
here?

Speaker 1 (26:11):
Go back to your own room.

Speaker 2 (26:15):
Oh, he has no room.
She karate, chopped that cockblock in half.
She sure did no time cock blockin half.
She sure did no time.
She told Elvis that Jack washer quote assistant and
chauffeur as he shuffled away togo sleep in his car.
She then said you know what?
That's a?

Speaker 1 (26:31):
bro, that's a peep.
He's like that's a good friendyeah.

Speaker 2 (26:34):
Well, he's there for her gig anyway.
He basically got like that'strue, you know, yeah, he's been
partying.

Speaker 1 (26:39):
He's been there.

Speaker 2 (26:40):
He kind of just has to roll with whatever happens.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (26:42):
He's like sure, sure, sure, sure, sure.

Speaker 2 (26:45):
All right.

Speaker 4 (26:46):
I'll see you in the morning ma'am.

Speaker 1 (26:49):
But she said you'll have to excuse him.
He gets confused when he drinks.
I love it.

Speaker 2 (26:58):
And then Elvis serenaded Myla, but it was an
odd choice of song for the quoteor something she was
anticipating.
He strummed the guitar and sanga church hymn called the old
rugged cross no, I know thatsong.

Speaker 1 (27:13):
Oh my god, my religious trauma just smacked me
in the face.
That is not what the fuck?
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (27:25):
I mean, I guess that's like his roots and
everything, but just like also,you could do better.
You're Elvis, yeah, you'reElvis about to explode on Life
Magazine.
I'm pretty sure you gotsomething else up your sleeve,
bud.
Anyway, what a choice.
What a choice.
It was awkward, but it didn'tstop them from doing what they

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could to make the Lord blush.
Myla wrote in her journal.

Speaker 1 (27:57):
Oh God, okay, what did she write?
She wrote Awkwardly.
We began to make real musictogether.
The overture was thrilling, thecrescendo was breathtaking, the
climax fell flat.
Elvis, for all of his greatbeauty and magnetism, was

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sexually inexperienced.
When I knew him, Was I tobelieve his onstage, pelvic
swivels and thrusts were only atease?
He made love like an adolescentschoolboy.
No Scathing, no scathing review.
Okay, I realized he was not yeta man, still a boy, with

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pimples, barely 21.
Nonetheless, he had thisalluring energy about him,
indefinable really, but anundeniable presence.
I knew he was going to be a bigstar, that the world would
recognize him as a musicalgenius.
God sent me to cheer elvis andI did.

Speaker 2 (29:11):
Mylon ermie is nothing but a great sexual
cheerleader.

Speaker 1 (29:14):
She sure is.
I love her.
Listen.
She's racking him up at thispoint.
She is how old is she?

Speaker 2 (29:23):
She's like in her 30s I would say like mid-30s at
this point.

Speaker 1 (29:27):
Okay, well, as someone who just slept, as
someone who's a woman in hermid-30s who slept with someone
in their early 20s recently.
I didn't know, yes, you did.
I didn't know how early 20s, Ididn't know.

Speaker 2 (29:43):
I mean, yes, you did, I didn't know how early 20s, I
didn't know, I didn't know I, Iknow, I know it's a fling, I
know it's a fling, but also I, Ijust want I want it to be more,
just so that I can like neverlet you live it down.

Speaker 4 (30:05):
I can like never let you live it now.

Speaker 2 (30:07):
But like it would just be like, oh like, do you
have a serious problem or likeissue in your relationship that
you want me to take seriouslywith that?

Speaker 1 (30:17):
That's the thing.
That little boy like I couldnever I could never seriously
date.
I was like ugh.
So when I say I connect withMyla Nervy, I know this woman
intimately.

Speaker 2 (30:31):
I am her.
She is me as intimately as sheknew Elvis.
Oh yeah, I have to say my joke,though, that I said when you
told me you slept with a23-year-old.

Speaker 1 (30:41):
Say it to the crowd, say it to the masses.

Speaker 2 (30:45):
Just when I was peaking in high school, he was
playing peek-a-boo.

Speaker 1 (30:52):
Oh God, it makes me think of that SNL sketch.
Oh yes, meet your second wife,meet your second wife your
second wife and one of them'slike a fetus yes, yeah, oh god,
disturbing except it's you, it'syou know.

Speaker 2 (31:11):
Oh no, oh no, okay.
Um so myla didn't stop cheeringelvis there.
She continued to hang aroundand cheer him on.
There's a picture of himpretending to choke her that was
taken during his photo shootwith movie mirror.
And hold on a second.

Speaker 1 (31:31):
I need to see this.

Speaker 2 (31:32):
I know I can't find the.
I couldn't find the book justnow, so I've got to find it.
Hold on, all right, you seethis.
Oh, that's so fun.
Yeah, so he's like kind oflooks like, he's like playfully
wait, what's the one right nextto?

Speaker 1 (31:47):
it I want that.

Speaker 2 (31:50):
Oh yeah, that's sweet yeah, so this was during like
his rehearsals um and yeah, soit's just like they like movie
mirror, whatever that is likecame and she was in the photos
with him a little bit, and Mylaalso tagged along with Elvis and

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his band to the desert aroundLas Vegas to hear them mess
around with their own renditionof Hound Dog for the very first
time.

Speaker 1 (32:20):
Wow, it was like when he heard the original song and
then was like playing with it.
I want to do something withthis yes, and that was like.

Speaker 2 (32:29):
So that was a big moment.
But towards the end of theirtime in vegas, elvis started to
ignore my love.
And when elvis ghosting her inreal time, real time, in her
face, yes, and.
And when Elvis came over toLiberace's table at the Sands
Casino, where Myla was alsoseated, she pulled, no pun

(32:50):
intended, an unusual stunt toget back at him.

Speaker 1 (32:55):
Elvis came over and I grabbed his.
What Say it?

Speaker 4 (33:05):
say it.

Speaker 1 (33:07):
Elvis came over and I grabbed his divining rod.
His fury knows no bounds.
Elvis made a speech to me aboutthe next time I go out with you
, etc.
All the times we were togetherhe never let me see his pee-pee.
So I told him he had no guts.
He now hates me and isproclaiming it loudly.

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So she sexually harassed him.
Yeah, she sexually assaultedhim.
Yeah, excuse me, that was clearassault.
You're right.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
Just grabbing someone's genitals, just clear
assault Grabbing someone'sgenitals, just clear.
Assault, grabbing someone'sgenitals In the middle of a
casino, just like with.
Liberace at your side.
And Liberace's probably like.
I've done that, I'm like yeah.

Speaker 1 (33:55):
All the candelabras I've grabbed.
That's what he said Damn, allthe times we were together, he
never let me see his pee pee, sohe was like secret.

Speaker 2 (34:04):
He was a weird guy.
Did you see, priscilla?

Speaker 1 (34:07):
no, because as disgusted as I am with myself,
with the whole age gap thing,that whole grooming situation,
yeah, it's disturbing sodisturbing, but the movie is
really good.

Speaker 2 (34:22):
Well, it's sofia coppola.

Speaker 1 (34:22):
But the movie is really good.
Well, it's Sofia Coppola.
I know she's the right person.
Yeah, I expect nothing less.
Yes, but there are certainthings like I don't.
There are certain beautifulthings that I can miss.

Speaker 2 (34:37):
That's fair, because it's just, it hits you in the
wrong place.

Speaker 1 (34:41):
Yeah, I get it.
It hits too close to home.
I'm kidding, I'm kidding, Imyself.
He was legal, he was legal Imyself have never been groomed,
and that guy was legal by quite,not quite, a few years, by a
few years by a few years.

Speaker 2 (35:01):
A few meaning like what?
Three to five, shut the fuck upundisclosed years it.
This is all really just a bighumble brag, like you realize
that really?

Speaker 1 (35:14):
yeah, I don't think it is.
I was just making fun of myselfI.

Speaker 2 (35:17):
I mean it's true like you could.
You're just like it's.
I still got it is what it is.
I better, I'm only in my midthirties.
I know, but like I still got itfor like, for you know, like
you you have your, your thingwhere you're like oh, I'm not in
my twenties anymore, no, no, nowoman you can go outside right

(35:46):
now, it's true, and catch a dick.

Speaker 1 (35:48):
it's true, in in your teeth, in your teeth in 10
seconds or less.
It is, it is, it's not, it's.
I don't want to say, it's nothard, it's.
You know, I don't know what Iwant to say, but I I know what
you mean.
I'm not, it's not a humble brag, I'm making fun of myself.
But I will say, you know, aliWong just came out with her new,

(36:08):
not just but her new special,and she talks about, like the
spread of ages that she is, thatshe discovered after her
divorce, like she also went, youknow, I think think she it was
like 25 to 55 or 65 yeah, yeah,interesting yeah interesting no,

(36:31):
I love it honestly.

Speaker 2 (36:32):
I'm here for it.
I love it.

Speaker 1 (36:33):
I just love to make fun of you oh, yeah, same, yeah,
yeah, for sure love you, youlove you um okay.

Speaker 2 (36:40):
So coming back to los angeles, myla wasn't worried
about elvis's wrath because shehad re-signed a contract to
reappear with liberace onbroadway whoa the following
november back to new york that'sright, and the vampire show was
soon to launch at khj.
Although they were less popularthan KABC, they paid Myla more,

(37:05):
giving her $3.50 per week.

Speaker 1 (37:08):
Well, as we established before she gave away
.
What was it?

Speaker 2 (37:12):
It was nothing 45% of the Of the rights.
Yes, crazy.
But Myla was unhappy that theprops and set pieces for her
show were all cheap imitationsand claimed that the show
writers were inept idiots whowere unfamiliar with her
character.
So she started off the show bygoing off book and making her

(37:36):
own joke.
This is live television mindyou.
And the joke Myla led with wasI must tell you about my sister.

Speaker 1 (37:46):
She's dead now.
Lucky girl it seems.
She was lynched for raping asnake.

Speaker 2 (37:53):
Oh, it's a oh my.
It sent the censors off, to saythe least.
To say it just sent me.

Speaker 1 (38:01):
Yeah, I know I'm shocked.

Speaker 2 (38:01):
Now I'm trying to oh my it sent the sensors off, to
say the least, to say it justsent me yeah.
Oh, my God, I'm shocked.
Now I'm trying.

Speaker 1 (38:05):
I'm trying to.
What is the joke?

Speaker 2 (38:08):
I know it was.
It's.
It's just a lot.
It's like a shock value thing.
Yeah, you know it's raping asnake.
I don't get it.
I guess, like the snake is the,is it supposed to be a penis, I
guess you know?
Oh, my god, I have to tell youthis when I worked at like okay,
so this is another odd job Ihad.
I was a cocktail waitress in myearly 20s at a blues bar in

(38:32):
chicago yes yes, I know this.
Yes, and there was a guy there,um, named leslie something, and
he was like one of the musiciansand he had a song called blind
snake and it was like I got myblind snake ain't got no eyes,
ain't got no teeth, and then hewould be like he's like you

(38:53):
better watch out, my snake gonnaspit on you and you tell me
this man never got a record dealno, he was a lecherous old man
one time one of the otherwaitresses was like leslie, let
me just check your like searchhistory.
And she just like checked itreal quick to see what the last

(39:15):
thing he looked for, and it wasdefinitely porn like while he's
you just while at work?
Yeah, oh my god leslie, whereare you, leslie?

Speaker 1 (39:26):
leslie, where you at, also myla.
What is this joke?
Girl I'm, I'm on, I'm on teammyla but what the fuck?

Speaker 2 (39:34):
I know, I think it was a little bit of a desperate
reach yeah, like trying to belike I hate this so I'm gonna go
even farther into a weirddirection.
And it's a weird direction, itjust is so.
Milo wrote ouch censorship.

Speaker 1 (39:50):
Seems I said a dirty word Rape, fcc.
A watered-down vampire follows.
Question mark.

Speaker 2 (39:59):
Yeah it's like, but were you ever making rape jokes
before?
I know the thing like I'm notsure it's.
It's maybe they didn't, maybemaking here's the thing.
I think back then it's like ifyou were gonna have shock value,
maybe there was just like notit like.
Now it's like the shock valueis more honed, I suppose where

(40:22):
it's kind of like that issomething that we can reach for
and feel like that we're shockeda little bit, but it's fun.
And then there's the stuffthat's just like not fun.

Speaker 1 (40:34):
Or funny, right, it's just not.
Yeah, because here's the thingIf she would have done a rape
joke and it landed Mm-hmm, Ithink it would have been a
different story.

Speaker 2 (40:45):
It would have been a different story.
That's really hard to do,though, and I think most people
know that Especially back then.
Yeah, and I mean People didn'teven make jokes about like
people being pregnant back then.

Speaker 4 (40:56):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know like it's it's just it's.

Speaker 1 (41:00):
It's a it's a hard reach.

Speaker 2 (41:01):
Hard reach Bad all around, bad, all around.
Not her best moment.

Speaker 1 (41:07):
Where's the wise woman that was in Elvis'?

Speaker 2 (41:11):
after party.

Speaker 1 (41:11):
Where did she go?

Speaker 2 (41:14):
You're wiser than this, Mila.
Yes.
So she was fearing that she'dbe watered down, and that's
exactly what happened.
So the network covered up hercleavage with a scarf after this
and made the writing safe andsterile.
The ratings floundered, butsomehow Myla got a raise and

(41:34):
started earning $425 per week.

Speaker 1 (41:37):
Way to fail your way upwards.
Yeah, I guess so.

Speaker 2 (41:41):
But it all quickly fell apart.
Sponsors started pulling awayand the Vampire Show ultimately
only completed 12 of its 13episodes.
And that was the wooden stakein the Vampire Show's heart.
All right, Courtney.

Speaker 1 (41:59):
I see you, I see you.
I see you, I hear you, Iappreciate you.

Speaker 2 (42:04):
Thank you so much.
By August 3rd 1956, it was deadand gone bye show.
Through this time, myla hadbeen involved with a young lover
speaking of young lovers namedchuck, beetles with a d with a d
, beetles, beetles.
Chuck idolized jimmy dean andtried to mold himself in his

(42:26):
image, but his attempts weren'timpressing anyone.
Still, he managed to reel inMyla.
She was 33 and he was 22.
Cute, he never got a real job.

Speaker 1 (42:41):
He was a house boyfriend.
I'm like cute, he never got areal job.

Speaker 2 (42:46):
He never got a real job.
He stayed out late and hung outwith musicians who Myla
referred to, as you say thisGutter punks who drank codeine.
Somehow he had money, but Mylanever used it, even when she was
low on cash, because shesuspected it came from sketchy
sources such as drug dealing.
So she was hardly surprisedwhen he got arrested.

Speaker 1 (43:09):
Myla writes of this time it distresses me that Chuck
has adorned himself withJimmy's image, for I assume I am
to Chuck, then, only a symbol.
I have mixed feelings.
For Chuck reverence for hisidealism, philosophy.
For Chuck, reverence for hisidealism, philosophy and

(43:33):
tenderness, and disgust for hismoral schism and his hero
worship of Jimmy, which seems tome irreverent coming from a
pipsqueak.
Like him, chuck has those samemixed feelings.
For me, reverence and oradulation because I am a
motherly celebrated heroine, anddisgust because I am a holier

(43:54):
than thou victorian prude whosetempered bar is heroine so she's
basically like I draw the lineat heroine and and, and you
think I'm like a prude for thatyeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (44:07):
I mean I don't think Milo and Ermiah was a prude.

Speaker 1 (44:12):
I don't think she was .
But you know you are always aprude to someone else, that's
true, she does have like momentsof it actually, but she wasn't
of course, but like she hasmoments of it, but like yeah.

(44:35):
Like also I just want to telleveryone you're not approved
because you you can't do heroinum, I think or don't know, or
don't want, not, can't or justdon't want to do that or like,
or entertain that life in theleast.
Never once have I been like youknow what I want to try just
once yeah, that's because haveyou no, no god, what do you do?
I feel like there are somepeople out there who are like I
will literally try anything onceno, you don't do that with

(44:55):
heroin.

Speaker 2 (44:56):
Everyone knows you don't do that with heroin yeah
yeah, you've definitely donemore drugs than me.
What are you even talking about?
Why did you think that I wouldhave done here?

Speaker 1 (45:04):
I have not done more drugs.
Yes, you have.
You have done ayahuasca I wouldnever.

Speaker 2 (45:14):
That's like a spiritual journey that I did in
Hawaii.

Speaker 1 (45:15):
Some people would say so is heroin no.

Speaker 2 (45:17):
There was a shaman, was there a?
Shaman when you did heroin whenyou shot up in a freaking flog
house.

Speaker 1 (45:23):
That makes it sound like I did, heroin no.

Speaker 2 (45:27):
To be clear.

Speaker 1 (45:28):
I have, have never, nor do I ever want to do heroin
in a flop house or any housecourtney.

Speaker 2 (45:44):
Neither do I.
It's no, no, I can't believe.
You asked me if I would eat adog treat.
She sent me this link aboutlike petri dish meat or whatever
.
Yeah, meat grown in a lab and Iwas like oh, would you, because
Courtney's vegetarian.

Speaker 1 (45:59):
So I was like would you ever eat this?
Meaning like lab grown meat?
But I just I didn't read thewhole article.
It was like in the headline.

Speaker 2 (46:07):
It was like dog treats made from lab-grown meat.
And you texted me and saidwould you ever try this?
And I said would you Did?
You just ask me if I would eata dog treat?
And now you just asked me if Iwould do heroin.
Who do you think that I am?

(46:28):
What's wrong with you?
Oh my God, I'm so insulted.
Do you know me at all Like?
I have some sort of likestandards.
You know Some sort ofself-respect?
Marissa doesn't think so, but Ido.

(46:50):
I do some sort of self-respect.
Marissa doesn't think so, but Ido, courtney has standards, oh
my god, oh yes, I'm boundaries,my temperance also bars heroin
and dog treats mylon therelationship only added stress
to myla's life with chuckbeetles.
If we have to keep, just keepdoing, these really yeah, that

(47:12):
relationship with chuck beetleswith chuck the heroin drug
dealer, addict.

Speaker 1 (47:17):
Uh, we don't know.
Maybe both.

Speaker 2 (47:18):
We don't know either both, but it just yeah.
He was no good for her, justlike heroin is no good for you
if you're doing it.
Um, the relationship only addedstress to Milo's life and she
once again shaved her head indistress.

Speaker 1 (47:32):
This is like.

Speaker 2 (47:32):
Brittany, she's such a Brittany.
This is the second time thatshe's cut off all her hair.
Her good friend Marlon Brandoimplored her to go to therapy,
and he even paid for it.
Wow, an enlightened man.
Marlon.
Back then an enlightened man,marlin, and he back then mr

(47:54):
brando.
Say what you want about marlonbrando, but he was a man who
believed in therapy in the 50s.

Speaker 1 (47:56):
That's a goddamn miracle um, however.

Speaker 2 (48:01):
So she goes to therapy, but how?
Her diagnosis was unhelpful andvague.
The therapist said she wasemotionally disabled.
That was the diagnosis, wow.

Speaker 1 (48:13):
So myla stopped her treatment because the sessions
were too painful and the busride too long.

Speaker 2 (48:20):
Fair, fair yeah, you know what everyone does remote
therapy.
Now myla, and like we couldn'tdeal and we goodness gracious
you had to get on a bus fortherapy, like you need therapy
just for the bus ride.
No, anyway, for Halloween thatyear.
Myla and Chuck attended amasquerade party at the home of
astrologist Carol Ryder.

(48:41):
Chuck's costume what a funHalloween.
Yeah, for sure I would love togo.

Speaker 1 (48:48):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah or like any astrologists
out there that want to invite meto your halloween party.

Speaker 2 (48:52):
Absolutely, a hundred percent we'll come as a really
fun couple's costume.
A medium, oh yeah.
Like can you imagine if thelong island, that's a whole
other thing anyway, yes, yes,but I would go that I would do
so.
Chuck's costume drew attentionto them in the worst way, as

(49:16):
Myla said.

Speaker 1 (49:18):
I went as Veneria, the name I gave to Chaz Chaz.

Speaker 2 (49:28):
Adams, little girl girl.
Yeah, like Charles Adams, likethe, the guy who wrote the Adams
family oh, yeah, so I thinkthat it's supposed to be
Wednesday, but like he didn'thad at this point, none of the
characters had names oh, okayyeah.

Speaker 1 (49:43):
I went.
I went as Veneria, the name Igave to Chaz Adams' little girl.
Chuck insisted on satirizingthe latest James Dean is not
dead madness which was thensweeping the nation.
He's not dead, only maimedsomewhere.
After plastic surgery he willreturn, so the rumor legend went

(50:04):
.
So Chuck got into a rebelwithout a cause outfit and got
bandaged out of sight all butunruly hair and horn-rimmed
glasses.
All evening he did a sulking.
I want to be a lone thing inthe corner.
People were terrified.
They pretended to ignore him,but of course they were

(50:24):
uncomfortably aware of him atall times.
Yeah, I'm gonna see if shebasically went as wednesday
adams and he went as an undeadjames.

Speaker 2 (50:35):
That's what she said like this, actually this photo
she looks like she's wearinglike a blonde wig and a witch
hat, so I don't know who she wasgoing as, but he, that's what
he did.
It's in taste.
He has bandages all over hisface and he's got glasses on
over it, but other than that,he's like wearing the James Dean
.
You know, get up.
And he went with her.

(50:56):
Yeah, they were.
He was her date and she was,and she had that relationship
with him.
No, she lost all of herjudgment at this time, cause
that's just.
No, she lost all of herjudgment at this time Because
that's just no.

Speaker 1 (51:09):
I guess she had to wear a wig because all of her
hair was shorn off.
Oh, that's true.

Speaker 2 (51:13):
Yeah, but why the blonde wig?
Maybe that's all she had.
Courtney, that's not all shehad.
She dressed as vampire all thetime.
I guess that's true.
Yeah, maybe that was too closeto her own thing.

Speaker 1 (51:23):
Yeah, I get it.

Speaker 2 (51:24):
Yep, she's trying to branch out but not really so.
For taking part in this poortaste costume that mocked her
friend's death, Myla was addedto the Hollywood's worst taste
list of 1956.

Speaker 1 (51:42):
Yeah, and I mean kind of rightfully so.
I mean, it's not like taste andwe still have like we don't
have that.
We have a worse dressed.
Yeah, we're still worth, butworst taste is I kind of.

Speaker 2 (51:52):
Is that it's kind of yeah it's like like Jerry
Springer show yeah, that's wild,yeah, and it didn't do her
public image any favors.
Shortly after this, myla made acareer decision that was just
as dastardly as throwing herfilm contract in a wastebasket
in front of howard hawks likeshe did.

Speaker 1 (52:12):
That was back in episode one.
Guys, yep, yep, yep, go back,go back.
Part one, part one, not episodeone.

Speaker 2 (52:17):
Part one part one she reneged on her tour with, she
did not yet to go to broadway.
There is no explanation forthis other than the fact that
her mother wouldn't be able totake care of the cats for while
she was away performing onbroadway.
It's like, girl, your friends,you got friends, girl, as I once

(52:41):
had somebody who I worked with,like at universal take care of
my cat and like stay in myapartment and I didn't really
know him that well, but like Ijust pretended I was like an
Airbnb situation yeah, you know,you do what you gotta do, you
guys yeah, the show must go on.
The show must go on if you're onBroadway like with Liberace.

Speaker 1 (52:58):
Come on, and the first time around went so well
too.
Like what are you doing?

Speaker 2 (53:03):
oh girl, this was a very weak excuse.
So it's more likely that Chuckprobably had something to do
with it.
Chuck, the fuck, the fuck,chuck, because he served no
other purpose in Myla's lifethan ruining things.
This was a very, very low pointfor Myla, but she still managed

(53:24):
to squeeze a few more jobs outof the Vampira oeuvre to make
ends meet.
Oeuvre, oeuvre, oeuvre, oeuvre.
She did a what is that word?

Speaker 1 (53:36):
Okay, just so you know.
It's spelled O-E-U-V-R-E, it'spronounced Oeuvre and it means
it's like the canon, mm canon,the vampire canon, the vampire
character, the vampire, je nesais quoi yeah, the vampire

(53:57):
essence yes, she did aconvention, a home show what
does that mean?

Speaker 2 (54:06):
a home show a show in someone's home, no, probably
like the hgtv of their time oh,okay, okay, okay okay, like,
probably like a homemaker showokay, which is also funny.

Speaker 1 (54:17):
I was like that's hilarious, but I was like a home
show.
She just showed up at like likea private, like party, like
what okay, yeah, no, I thinkthat.

Speaker 2 (54:28):
I think that's what that means and a safe driving
campaign for the national safetycouncil with a hack comedian
named doodles weaver wow, yeah.
So other than this, her incomewas largely from unemployment
checks.
Girl, we all been there.
However, one of the gigs mylagot during this small potatoes

(54:49):
period proved to be one of hermost fascinating and on brand.
She was hired as the liveaction reference model used by
Disney animators to create thecharacter of Maleficent for
Sleeping Beauty.

Speaker 1 (55:02):
I did know this, you did.
Yes, I did know this from oneof the many animation
documentaries like I've watchedthat that, yes, that this was.
It's coming back to me thatthat, yeah, she was, she modeled
.
That's so cool super cool.

Speaker 2 (55:18):
So she just did one day of work doing her signature
scream and dramatic twistingmotion.
Though myla did not supply thevoice, her body movements and
facial expressions were used tocreate the character.
So I want to stop here and lookat this, because this is like a
little clip of Maleficent fromthe original Sleeping Beauty and

(55:41):
we can play this.
It's not her voice, but youknow just.
We'll describe.
There she is, there she is.
She's got the eyebrows, forsure.

Speaker 4 (55:51):
What does she?
Want here it's a firstappearance royalty nobility the
gent, the hands, I feel like thehands are hers, yes, hands and
eyebrows, yeah, so it's.

Speaker 1 (56:07):
It's there definitely , the eyebrows definitely the
hands.

Speaker 2 (56:08):
I feel like the hands are hers.
Yes, hands and eyebrows yeah,so it's.
It's there definitely, theeyebrows definitely the hands um
, basically like, because thisis pretty much her in drag, I do
feel like disney, this isn't.
You know, they use divine toinspire ursula, like yeah they
like people who have thedramatic look to play an evil
person.
It's just like it.
Just you know it makes sensefor like creating a dramatic

(56:29):
villain yeah, and villains arethe most dramatic.
For whatever their faults aremany of them, I guess.

Speaker 1 (56:35):
Anyway, and now they're.
They're like no villains arejust normal people like in
frozen.

Speaker 2 (56:41):
It's just like the guy that caught me off guard.
Oh, it's not coming from a mileaway I was watching it with
iris, to be fair, that's when Istarted.
That's I saved that movie forher.

Speaker 1 (56:52):
You did we watched it together.
How did I watch?

Speaker 2 (56:56):
I watched it with the kid too, first time yeah, I I
never had that, so I was likeI'll probably watch it when it
makes sense, and then it, yeah,and then we watched it together,
that's cute.

Speaker 1 (57:05):
Yeah, no, I knew that guy.
I was like this guy he's too,he's too eager, he's too love
bombing love bombing red flagred flag.
So yeah, now they, they, theydress them, they, they animate
them to look like just normalpeople.
Because that's what evil peopleare just normal people, it's
true.

Speaker 2 (57:26):
It's true.

Speaker 1 (57:31):
So, anyway, that was a good one, but, but just one
day of work.
Yeah, but cool it's cool.

Speaker 2 (57:36):
So now that the last droplets from her career faucet
had dribbled away, it wasfinally Fun fact.
Yep, it was finally time.
Time to dust off that oldscript from Ed Wood and take
that B-movie moolah.
Let's do it.
As luck would have it, wood hadfinally secured financing and
the film was a go.

Speaker 1 (57:58):
God damn it.
It takes so long for films tohappen, especially bad films.

Speaker 2 (58:02):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (58:05):
But sometimes good films too, it's true it's like,
yeah, between someone gettingthe script and saying this needs
to be a film or a, the book,the source material and saying
this needs to be a film and itactually getting done it could
be five, ten years, yeah filmsjust take so long.

Speaker 2 (58:26):
Totally it's a lot of money.
However okay, so like thefinancing is a go, but a very
interesting donor had stepped upto fuel Wood's latest piece of
shit.
The benefactor was, of allpeople, a pastor.

(58:46):
What, yes, why?
I don't know his name was, whyI don't know?
His name was j edward reynoldsand he was the pastor of the
first baptist church of beverlyhills.
Okay, reynolds had agreed tofund the film, but he had a few
conditions.

Speaker 1 (59:02):
Oh, here the here we go yeah what what pastor
reynolds?

Speaker 2 (59:06):
first of all, he wanted to change the name of the
film to grave robbers fromouter space.
From grave robbers from outerspace to plan nine from outer
space I, I guess honestly bettertitle.
Yeah, I mean, motivations forthat are unclear, but uh, you
know, maybe he was offended bythe grave robber, maybe it was
sacrilegious I don't know, Idon't know, but uh, it's a, it's

(59:28):
a better title, it's a betterOkay.
I'm with the Reverend on thisone.
Plan nine from outer space.

Speaker 1 (59:32):
Yep Is it?

Speaker 2 (59:33):
a Reverend.

Speaker 1 (59:33):
Yeah, yeah, pastor, yeah, pastor.

Speaker 2 (59:41):
I'm with the pastor on this one all of the actors to
be baptized together in a totalimmersion.
Can you imagine that's part oflike your contract, Like we just
do this one little thing.
Um, myla was furious.
Yeah, I would be too, she toldher friend and soon to be cast

(01:00:01):
mate Criswell bring me to him,bring me to wood right this
minute.

Speaker 1 (01:00:09):
He will know that I am already baptized and
confirmed.
My name is in a time capsuleburied in the cornerstone of the
Finnish Lutheran Church, and ifhe insists on pursuing this
travesty and force me into abaptism, I will sue him for
stealing my goddamn immortalsoul.

(01:00:31):
Whoa.

Speaker 2 (01:00:35):
Metal.
I love too that.
She's just like I'm mad becauseI'm already baptized.
I do feel like this is one ofher like pure moments, one of
her like demure, but didn't shenever didn't.

Speaker 1 (01:00:48):
She never lived in, she never lived in finland.
No, no, but it was like afinnish church like remember
everything her family did waslike was finished.

Speaker 2 (01:00:55):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay so that was what it was, oh
my gosh yeah um, and so mylawas not required to participate
in the baptism, but she sworethat if she were forced to,
she'd wear her dominatrix catsuit.

Speaker 1 (01:01:10):
Amen, amen yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:01:20):
On November 27th 1956,.

Speaker 1 (01:01:23):
Myla headed to Quality Studios Yep, which I
would put money on it, not, not.
Yeah, being quality, you'reright, you're so right.
The film studio.

Speaker 2 (01:01:35):
it was the film studio equivalent to a budget,
yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:01:38):
Pretty much.

Speaker 2 (01:01:39):
Yeah, um, and she headed there to begin filming
plan nine from outer space.
She dressed herself and she didher own hair and makeup.
Of course, there was no budgetfor those departments Right
before she left the house, bythe way, she did all of this,
and her dress was so restrictivethat her deadbeat young
boyfriend had to oh, my God,she's still with him.

Speaker 1 (01:02:01):
Yes, jesus.

Speaker 2 (01:02:02):
Christ.
So he had to carry her on andoff the bus because she couldn't
walk.

Speaker 1 (01:02:08):
Well, you know what?
He wasn't good for anything.
Yeah, make him do something,something.

Speaker 2 (01:02:13):
Something so Bella Lugosi had already filmed scenes
with wood.
He's coming up again Longbefore the actual production had
begun.
Hmm.
Sadly he had since passed away.
Oh, bella, so Mila would besharing top billing with a dead
man.
Okay, that seems correct.

(01:02:33):
That seems right.

Speaker 1 (01:02:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:02:35):
However, he was a dead man.
She nearly, she dearly loved,so perhaps there was some
consolation in that I love thatfor her yeah.
Ed would always went after hasbeen actors with recognizable
names to add clout to his crap.
And for that top billing Myladidn't even have to say any
lines, she had insisted upon it.

Speaker 1 (01:02:56):
She writes I truly believed my only saving grace in
making this film was thatnobody would see it.
I'd received permission toperform mutely.
My lines were so insipid, soinane, I couldn't even speak

(01:03:16):
them privately to myself in myown home.
Scathing Girl, I've been there.
I have been there, girl.

Speaker 2 (01:03:26):
Where you just quietly change the dialogue.

Speaker 1 (01:03:29):
You're like maybe it was better because this is so
bad.
I love that she just refused tosay anything.
Quietly, change the dialogue.
You're like maybe it was betterbecause this is so bad.
Yeah, I love that she justrefused.
She's like no, if you'regetting my name.
You're getting nothing else,nothing else.
Yes, my name, my image, not myvoice, that's right.

Speaker 2 (01:03:43):
The set was a hazardous maze, and the carpet
that was intended to look likegrass was was something that
Myla had to navigate in platformheels.

Speaker 1 (01:03:53):
Listen, navigating anything in platform heels is
crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:03:58):
Yes, and then just the real grass Lumpy, insane.

Speaker 1 (01:04:02):
Fake grass.

Speaker 2 (01:04:04):
It's like all lumpy.

Speaker 1 (01:04:05):
A death trap yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:04:06):
Like, like hasn't been laid down properly.
No, like all rushed and likeshitty All rushed yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:04:11):
Like a non-union crew oh yeah, for sure doesn't know
how to do anything for sure,safely, or right?

Speaker 2 (01:04:16):
right.
So plan nine from outer spaceis a terrible movie, but it's
definitely in the so bad it'sgood category so I want to play
at least a couple examples ofits terribleness, in addition to
a scene with myla, at least oneokay, so let's start.
She start First of all, shelooks amazing.
Yeah, this is like a freezeframe of her, just like looking
like she's going to like clutchyour throat and take your soul.

Speaker 1 (01:04:38):
Um and and, and I'm looking at her and I'm saying,
take it girl take it.
This is the whole movie, thewhole movie's on YouTube.
I'll include a link, butalright, so this is where find
the link to this terrible moviein the show notes.

Speaker 2 (01:04:52):
This is just to show you the production value.
Wait, hold on a second.
Here we go.
Look at these flying saucers.

Speaker 1 (01:05:01):
They're just like little they look like they look
like and this sound.
It's just like.

Speaker 2 (01:05:09):
Honestly, they're just hovering it's just shit.
It looks like they're like lookat these flying they look like
little tin sombreros yeah theylook.
I'm trying to think what theylook like.
Yeah, they're made of tin foiltin foil sombreros floating okay

(01:05:33):
, so now I'm gonna show.
Oh yeah, so this scene, this isgreat.
This does not have myla in it,but it's really good.
So I just want to show you thisto like give you an idea of of
this movie and the dialoguebecause, she wouldn't say the
lines, okay, but other peoplehad to, and this is what it was
like he understands thedifficulties of the earth race.

Speaker 3 (01:05:52):
what do you think will be the lines?
But other people had to, andthis is what it was like.
He understands the difficultiesof the Earth race.
What do you think will be thenext obstacle the Earth people
will put in our way?
Well, as long as they can think, we'll have our problems.
But those whom we're usingcannot think.
They are the dead brought to asimulated life by our electrode
guns.
You know, it's an interestingthing when you consider the

(01:06:13):
Earth people who can think areso frightened by those who
cannot the dead.
Well, our ship should beregenerated.
We better get started.

Speaker 2 (01:06:22):
It's so bad, what the fuck?
It's just like really bad, justreally bad.
Really like circular dialoguethat, like it's just all burned
over place.
Okay so let's see myla.
Now let's see her.
Um, hold on, this is like alittle.
I think I'm starting this.
Oh, so this is like a littlebit of bella lugosi.
Oh, I want to see him but alsolike I don't know if this is

(01:06:43):
bella lugosi or when they startum, like they have to like do
all these shots with him, solike he died before they
finished making the movie.
So they just have someone Ithink it is edward walking
around like covering his facewith his sleeve, just like it's
like he's like in a dracula-likeway kind of, but so you can't
see his face, but he's supposed.

(01:07:05):
So I yeah let's.
so that's, I believe, whatyou're about to see at the start
here.
So she's just like going to bed, da-da-da-da.
This is my laugh.
No, no, no, this is just likethe boring joke.
So here he comes, yeah, so Ithink this is Ed Wood pretending
to be the one.

(01:07:25):
He's just fully covering hisface, oh my God.
And she's like, oh, oh, like,bad acting, like, oh no, I won't
even scream.
There's a man who just enteredmy room and I'll scream like so
much later.
What hell?

Speaker 1 (01:07:43):
yeah, so then he just slowly follows her out the door
, and now they're in a cemeteryImmediately, and this is Bella.

Speaker 2 (01:07:54):
I think so yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:07:59):
So here's Myla.
She's peeking through some somebrush Hedges, yeah, dead hedges
, yeah, just the girls runningaway in the nightgown, bella
Lugosi.

Speaker 2 (01:08:10):
Yeah, wandering through the graveyard,
Something's coming away in thenightgown, bela Lugosi.
Yeah, wandering through thegraveyard, something's coming up
from the earth.

Speaker 1 (01:08:20):
Is she supposed to be an undead brought back to life?
Yes, of course.
Of course.
I don't even know why I askedthat question.

Speaker 2 (01:08:29):
So there's that.

Speaker 1 (01:08:31):
So that's pretty much her throughout this entire
movie she's just looking andwatching and, yeah, and turning
on sexily, yes and then I wasgonna show, okay.

Speaker 2 (01:08:42):
So this is chris, well, her friend, that like is
in this movie, but his beginningmonologue is better, because
the end is bad and so is thebeginning, but I think the end
is bad and so is the beginning,but I think the beginning is
better, bad, um, so this is,like, famously, one of the
famous bad parts of this movie.
Okay, okay, and this is how itstarts.

Speaker 4 (01:09:06):
Greetings, my friend.
We are all interested in thefuture, for that is where you
and I are going to spend therest of our lives.
And remember my friend, futureevents such as these will affect
you in the future.
You are interested in theunknown, the mysterious, the
unexplainable.

(01:09:27):
That is why you are here andnow, for the first time, we are
bringing to you the full storyof what happened on that fateful
day.
We are giving you all theevidence, based only on the
secret testimony of themiserable souls who survived
this terrifying ordeal.
The incidents, the places, Ijust don't understand.

Speaker 1 (01:09:52):
Is he supposed to be a news anchor?

Speaker 4 (01:09:53):
he's like dressed in a full I think, a tuxedo, my
friend and it's a very can yourheart stand?

Speaker 2 (01:10:03):
it's so unnecessarily long my friend, um.
So I just want to like, I wantto I want to pause on this guy
for a second.
That was chris.
Well, so that when we talkedabout her being angry about like
having, yeah, yeah, about beingbaptized.
This is who she was talkingabout so I believe that he was

(01:10:24):
like the amazing chris well,that was his stage name.
He was an american psychic andhe was known for his wildly
inaccurate prediction.
So like full movie full ofhas-beens and hacks.
And so he's like.
That's why.
That's why they got him to belike the future, the future, the

(01:10:44):
future the future I, theamazing chris, well know about
the future the future.

Speaker 1 (01:10:49):
I am a psychic and we're all gonna be living in the
future.
Yeah, it's, that's so.
It's like a crazy bad movie.

Speaker 2 (01:10:55):
But she was right to just like be like, I'm not gonna
you know, I'm not gonna speak,but I will say no one's gonna
see this.
We're gonna get to this in thenext part, but like this is I
mean because we talked aboutthis like the.
The footage from her show islike lost pretty much in most
ways this is the thing that mostpeople have seen her in.
So this is like no, this islike I know no, her cult.

(01:11:19):
She has an entire cultfollowing, just where she says
nothing and just wanders arounda graveyard slowly, just looking
iconic, I know, kind of amazingwhat I know.
So oh, I love her yes but shewas like she was embarrassed to
be doing this, so, anyway, Iwould be too.

(01:11:39):
Yep, myla's stupid boyfriend.
Chuck, chuck the fuck as werefer to him made a scene on set
uh and threatened edward acouple of times when he'd used
his bullhorn, one time too manyif you've seen the movie edward
like they're.
They kind of show it him beinglike action like just in a
bullhorn all the time just beinglike over the top.

(01:12:01):
So I guess he was annoyed bythat rather than be embarrassed
by him.
Myla was pleading with him onthe night of the last shooting
day and saying him on the nightof the last shooting day and
saying, why don't you love me?

Speaker 1 (01:12:16):
she even said herself that night that once she got
home and out of costume, I waswashed up.

Speaker 2 (01:12:19):
I was no more myla continued to desperately try and
gain chuck's affection why,girl, I know it's just like what
the heck?

Speaker 1 (01:12:29):
what?
Yeah, I don't even making him.
Do you think she was doingdrugs?
At this point?
I really don't think she was Ithink she just like then what is
it like?
I just don't think dick can'tbe that good, he's 22.

Speaker 2 (01:12:43):
I just think that, like I just think that I he's 22
, I think she's in a, I thinkher self-esteem is is tanked and
yeah, it's not good right nowand you do bad things when that
happens she's in a totally toxicrelationship and can't get out.
Yes, oh my so Myla continued todesperately try and gain
Chuck's affections, even makinghim donuts at one point and

(01:13:07):
accidentally causing a grease.
Fire Chuck, oh, no, chuckimmediately.

Speaker 1 (01:13:11):
I was going to say donuts are hard to make, yeah
they are.

Speaker 2 (01:13:13):
I've never even attempted.
I can't boiling oil, no, no.
Chuck immediately fled theapartment because he's a fucking
coward.

Speaker 1 (01:13:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:13:24):
And Myla stayed behind to stomp out flames and
rescue her cats.

Speaker 1 (01:13:28):
Well, she better rescue those cats that she
didn't do Liberace's show for.
She better stay and rescuethose cats.

Speaker 2 (01:13:38):
Shit.
Chuck had chosen himself, as healways did, and Myla's arms
were badly burned and had to befully bandaged.
In fact, let me find this photoagain.
Here it is.
She's got her cat whose namewas In fact, let me find this
photo again.
Here it is.
Yeah, so she's got her catwhose name was Rat Face.
Her cat's name was Rat Face.

(01:13:59):
Hell, yeah, and her arms arecompletely bandaged.

Speaker 1 (01:14:02):
This is a Getty image , guys, yeah.
They're completely bandaged andshe's just like trying to give
her like creepiest vampire smile, trying to give her like why
does she have Vampire smile,creepiest vampire smile, but no
Vampire wig or makeup, so it'sjust her hair growing back From
when she shaved it.

Speaker 2 (01:14:20):
Yeah, because this is just Because this photo, just
so you know, this is justbecause the how Like there was a
fire.

Speaker 1 (01:14:27):
So they took a photo.
So there's news.
Yes, for like the news about it.

Speaker 2 (01:14:29):
So that's the only reason.

Speaker 1 (01:14:31):
I was like why is there a photo of her Like, okay,
that's why.

Speaker 2 (01:14:33):
Okay.
So even though a doctor hadtold Myla not to use her arms
because, as you can see from thephoto, they are completely
bandaged, yeah, from fingernailsto shoulder.
Yeah, chuck had insisted thatshe clean the apartment or he

(01:14:53):
would leave her.
What a fucking dick.

Speaker 1 (01:14:57):
I don't fuck Chuck, I fucking hate this.
I know, I know he's the worst,and so Myla swept no girl With
her bandaged arms, and Chuckleft shortly after that anyway.

Speaker 2 (01:15:03):
Well, you know what?
Good riddance, goodbye yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:15:07):
No girl.

Speaker 2 (01:15:08):
With her bandaged arms, and Chuck left shortly
after that.

Speaker 1 (01:15:12):
Anyway, Well, you know what?
Good riddance, goodbye.
Yeah, no, he's the fuckingworst.

Speaker 2 (01:15:18):
But then he came back to break in and steal her
things.
What?

Speaker 1 (01:15:23):
He was truly that's true addict behavior.
It is, yeah, this dude was aheroin addict.
I mean, like she's implied it,that's addict behavior.
She, yeah, this dude was aheroin addict.
I mean, like she's implied itbehavior.

Speaker 2 (01:15:31):
She didn't even imply she basically just said it like
he is so um.
By this point, sophie myla'smother had moved back in and had
seen chuck fleeing theapartment, and the newspaper
wrote an article about theinstance and, true to form, they
listed myla's full address inthe piece uh like, just they

(01:15:52):
doxed her yes, they did and theydid that when she got like
attacked in her apartment in newyork too yeah, they like
keeping like and this is whereshe lives, like she's not making
any money for her fame.
They're just being like, but youmight have some creepy stalkers
, so let's make sure that theyknow where you live.
Oh, the media yeah terrible,but Sophie didn't stay for long.

(01:16:14):
In fact.
She sadly passed away,supposedly of exhaustion.
What she had like only recentlystopped working because she was
not able to and very shortlyafter that she died.

Speaker 1 (01:16:32):
This is why you retire, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:16:35):
And you rest.

Speaker 1 (01:16:37):
Although I don't ever plan on retiring, I plan to
Betty White, that shit.

Speaker 2 (01:16:42):
Oh yeah, you like what you do, so it's different
Than cleaning a hotel If I wascleaning a hotel day in and day
out.

Speaker 1 (01:16:51):
I would retire as soon as possible.
As soon as possible, or die atthe hotel and haunt it.

Speaker 2 (01:17:00):
Yeah, yeah, there you go, that's a good one, that's
good, I'll retire.
Yeah, because then you couldjust be like I'll live here now.

Speaker 1 (01:17:09):
Yeah, for free.
Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 2 (01:17:16):
That's a good idea.
Um so, myla was a reallydevastated.
She was very close with hermother obviously, um, and the
funeral was the point at whichmyla next saw her brother and
niece, who is aka the author ofthis book.
Thank you Again.
Thank you, sandra.
She would see Sandra again inlater years, but she would never

(01:17:37):
see her own brother again.
This, this was the last time,just at their mother's funeral,
that's awful yeah.
I think she was just like theblack sheet.
I mean, she definitely was theblack sheet yeah.
Her family, so it was just likethey did.
Yeah, I don't think he had muchto say to her after that, but

(01:18:03):
that is where we are going toleave Myla for now.
I didn't want to leave her herebecause it's a sad moment, but
I think you know you get a tasteof where we're going.

Speaker 4 (01:18:11):
Yeah, it's're going, yeah it's not great.

Speaker 2 (01:18:13):
Great, but I think you know there's also other
things worth talking about forsure.

Speaker 1 (01:18:18):
So we will get to that Well, hopefully Chuck is
gone for good.
Oh Chuck, oh yeah, but nexttime the final Vampyra
installment.

Speaker 2 (01:18:30):
Yeah, and I feel like we might call it Vampyra
installment, yeah and I feellike we might call it Punk
Vampyra.

Speaker 1 (01:18:35):
Ooh, I've got my reasons, okay.

Speaker 2 (01:18:39):
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podcasts, but write us a review,Tell us what you're thinking.

Speaker 1 (01:19:04):
Dead and Kind of Famous is written, researched
and produced by CourtneyBlomquist.
It is co-hosted by MarissaRivera.
We tag team on socials JesseRussell and Courtney Blomquist.
It is co -hosted by MarissaRivera.
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Speaker 2 (01:19:13):
Blomquist, do our editing Until next time.
You might not be famous, butyou got a story to tell and
you're not dead yet.

Speaker 1 (01:19:23):
Okay, bye, bye.