BP Bonus: Halloween Chat with Monster Fuzz Podcast

EXPLICIT Language warning! Lots of F-bombs in this one. The boys of Monster Fuzz Podcast are back! David, Rob, and Eamonn discuss stories and topics of Halloween, including favorite films, costumes, and near-deadly experiences. Rob and Eamonn bring favorite films and TV shows to talk about, while David tries to pick a favorite. The boys also discuss scary life moments and costumes. Flora shares a couple of harrowing experiences from his childhood as well as his most embarrassing costume choice ever. It's a fun, light-hearted and relaxed conversation between Irishmen (well, one quarter Irish for Flora)! Make sure to give them some love wherever you listen to Blurry Photos! Find Monster Fuzz here!    

Episode Transcript

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Hey, welcome to Blurry Photos.I'm David Flora. Here's a little Photober
treat for you. The boys atMonster Fuzz podcast just head me on a
chat about Halloween times, things likemovies, costumes, old memories, and
just getting ready for the best holidayof the year. This one's just us
sitting around chatting and if you liketheir style, go check out Monster Fuzz

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on the podcatchers. And here's alittle Photober update. I'm still working on
the research for the next topic,which means I've been reading furiously and taking
notes and man, there's just aton of ground to cover, so I'm
not optimistic I'll get it out beforeOctober is over, but that means Photober
will extend into November and the annualghost Stories episode will follow, so November

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is going to be extra fun.Thanks for your patients, though, while
I try to bake a big cakehere, I hope you guys have a
great Halloween and hope you enjoy mychat with Rob and Aiman over at Monster
Fuzz. Gentlemen, what's up?Hello? Hello, Rob, It's it's

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it's it's your boy Aim And we'reused to me, but we're not so
used to David David's here as welland on the party. Yeah that's good.
How are you. We're getting readyfor spoky season. I'm sure you
are as well, are you?Yeah, yeah, things are kicking off
around here. We're trying to fightaway the Christmas aisles in the department store.
Yeah yeah, yeah, to tryhim. Also, what to though,

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is to give you like a weekof Halloween. I'd like to start
of October and they're like, yeah, here's like a full range of Halloween
and then like it seems like everydays they're like inch away from that and
put in like Christmas stuff, right, oh, yeah, that's exactly.
Yeah. Yeah, they dangle thatthat little bait of yoh, you guys
are going to enjoy this. Here'sall this fun stuff. Nah, just

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kidding. Everybody's just very once Lightsin Garland and yeah, so today,
guys, for this episode, aswe know, it's getting close to Halloween,
so we just thought we would havea conversation about our favorite films to
get in the mood for Halloween TVshows. You know, maybe we might
have some Halloween stories. It's justa general spook chat. I suppose to

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get everyone in the mood. ButI suppose we'll talk first about films,
lads, um amon, what isa good Halloween film for you? What?
What always put? I think Halloweenitself. I'm always partial too,
Yeah, but I do. There'sone called Trigger Trees, which I'm a
massive fan of. It's like alittle apology, but it's all self contained,

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if that makes sense. It's allthese different stories happening in the same
place. It's kind of like pulpfiction. Pump pumpkin fiction maybe is the
best last name for it. Butyeah, it's it's a really really good
little anthology. I think there's likethree I want to say, there's three
stories in it, and they allkind of take place in this town,
and there's the same characters and thedifferent stories and stuff. And it's actually

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I think it's by an Irish guywho he's the same fellow who did Crampus.
Oh yeah, speaking of rushing towardsChristmas. Yeah, so it's a
yeah, it's it's a really goodIt's probably one of my favorite little Halloween
Halloween numbers to get me in themood. Nice. Have you seen that
there? Crampas or both? Um? You know, I haven't seen I

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haven't seen Trick or Treat, butI have seen Crampas. I actually saw
it in the theaters. Oh wellit was. It was better than I
thought it would be, but Ididn't have a very high standard for Yeah
it's it's not an intent classic.Yeah yeah, I like that. It
was comedy. I like that thekind of sort of fucked around rather than
just stread up like trying to beserious. Yeah, laught, let's off

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a little bit. I would liketo see a legitimate Crampas film where it's
like the more the folklore and thethings that you know are involved with Crampas
as opposed to kind of a Idon't know, goofy cgi romp. Yeah,
yeah, yeah, no, forsure. It was definitely more leaning

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towards that. But no I haven'tI haven't checked out the Trick or Treat
so I think last year m andthat might have chemo, So I definitely
must give that a watch. That'swhat it's. It's really like, I
had never seen it. I neverheard of it, and then someone was
like, oh, this is actuallya really good Halloween film. And generally
speaking, when people say that toyou're like, yeah, sure it is,
you know what I mean? Likelike You're like, yeah, I

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don't know about it. Sure itis, like, but it turns out
it's it's actually a really really greatmovie and it really does get you in
a good Halloween buzz, right,Yeah, because it is tough trying to
find spooky films to actually recommend topeople. Um, And I feel like
when you actually sit down with someone, there's like a fifty fifty chance with

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a lot of hard films that they'lljust say, they'll just turn around to
you halfway through them and go,this is absolute bollocks, Like I'm not
aching to shite. Um, Sothat is always a risk. Um,
I suppose yourself to Haven't you gotany goal to spooky films? Go to?
Not really? Um, there's nothingthat I watch year after year,
like you know, die Hard forChristmas or something, but which is sad

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because I enjoy Halloween a lot more. But UM, I would say there's
a couple I'll I'll throw out therethat I'm thinking of for right now.
Um. One is I have neverseen the scary stories to tell them.
The Dark movie, I haven't.I haven't heard great things about it,
but I am interested to watch it, So I think I'm going to try

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and watch that sometime soon here,right, um. Yeah. And I
just watched um, The Woman inBlack, which was first a nineteen eighty
nine British made for TV movie thatthat premiered actually on Christmas Eve and really
fucked some people up. Um yeah, and then they remade it just a

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couple of years ago with Harry Potterhimself. Dayah and uh. And so
I watched both of those. Thefirst one you could probably take a pass
on, but the second one wasactually pretty good. I thought they did
a lot more with the story andreally up the creepiness factor of it.
And it's a it's a fun one. It's not perfect by any means,

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but you know it might be worthwatch for you guys. No, I
think you're right. Yeah, Isaw it years ago. It's a mud
children make an appearance in that,right Yeah yeah, yeah, No,
I I it was the same Iremember watching. I watched it by myself
years ago, and I think Ihad like a I don't know if I
had a particularly heavy night the nightbefore. It's having like a partial panic

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attack as I was watching it waslike Jesus Christ, I need to turn
this off. But yeah, theyget the atmosphere. Yeah, it's really
really good in that like, yes, spoogy little number, Yeah, yeah,
so not bad. How about yourub Yeah, I think for me,
like if if I I suppose,and that's a question and of itself
that will ask in a minute,like why is your your the film that

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scared them most? I suppose,But for me, I think Insidious is
probably one of the ones that reallyfucking scary. Is that one about a
demon? Yeah, it's a hauntedhouse type of film, you know.
It's the way you remember the guythat kind of looks a bit like Darth
Maul is in at that demon guy, and there's like I think at the

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time people were sort of call themlike the Darth Maul demon. Um.
He's one of my It's one ofmy favorite films for like frightening the shit
out of me because I'm not veryeasily scared, and there was just something
about that the true me off.I think it was so busy, it
was just it never gave you timeto actually rest or like anticipate what was
next. I think, you know, interesting, it's it's I don't know

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if it's on like streaming services,it definitely yeah, it definitely used to
be on Netflix. I'm sure theyprobably brought it back in for Halloween or
whatever. But yeah, to yourpoint, it has some there's a few
parts in that, like that partwith the kid dancing around the kitchen that's
fucking terrifying, like and it's justit's like it's shouldn't be terrifing because he's
a little over twistfer. He's noteven like he's not even physical, you

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can he's just like the stupid ghost. But it's still the way they build
the tension on that is like,yeah, things when they portrayed demon stuff
in films that that tends to getto me. I don't know why.
Demons, you know, are arekind of the creepiest thing to me,
but just I guess the thought ofpossession and there's not much you can do
about it, and yeah, yeah, you know we're actually doing funnily.

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You should mention that, like thereally yesterday we recorded an episode about alleged
possessions Jordan murders and stuff like that, and also like when someone says all
the devil made me do it likewhich largely is a pile of bollocks conclusions,
but a fascinating topic to kind ofget into because you can sort of

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figure out some of it, whereit started and all that type of thing.
But I think, yeah, insidiouswas one for me, and as
well, one that I don't likewatching on my own in a house is
The Strangers. Oh yeah, man, the first time I saw that,
that's no bueno. It was thefirst time I saw that. I was
in the cinema and years and yearsand years ago when I first came out

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so as there were a girl Iwas dating at the time, went to
Seaton Cinema Grand stuff, and shewas like, right, I go home
to mind, you go home toyours grand grands. I went home.
Nobody there and all that in theback of your mind are these masked hoodlums
trying to break into your house?Like it was just I don't think I
slept till about six in the morning, Like it was fucking awful. It's
it's yeah, it's it just givesYeah, there's something about that one on

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as well, because it's like realhorror versus like psychological or something otherworldly.
It's like, yeah, it's thesemotherfuckers can Yeah, yea. It was
very That was like a real lifescary type of thing. But I think
insidious. I think if people haven'tseen insidious. Now I have hard some
people didn't like it, but Ithink generally, as far as like horror

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films go, it's pretty well regarded. I think it tracks around the six
to a seven out of ten,which is actually which for Yeah. Yeah,
horror is so subjective these days.You know, everybody's got there because
some people like the gore, somepeople like the this suspense, the thriller
type stuff in it um and somepeople like the jump scares. Like,

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there's so many different types of horror. It's hard to find a movie that
everybody's going to agree. Yeah,this is this is pretty legit. Yeah,
your dad writes, Okay, we'llgo for the scariest film that you've
ever watched. It can be all, it can be new, it can
be a film you watched when youwere twelve or thirteen, left a sort

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of a last American yea, David, is there anything that kind of jumps
out to you where you're like,yeah, film. I do remember the
first time I saw The Blair WitchProject in the theater. Yeah, you
know, I came home and grabbedthe dog and made sure that he was
sleeping in the bed with me thatnight. This was this was one of
my picks as well was the BlairWitch. So I'm glad you actually brought

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it up and you've seen it inthe cinema. In the cinema, yeah,
I was. I came home,it was late at night, you
know, and I was like,God, this is terrible. Did you
in the town that you were inat the time, was there a bit
of an air about is this railor not? Still? Because there was
in my hometown at the time,ye were like, like, we went

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into the rental store with my auntieand I distinctly remember her asking for the
blair Witch, like, and shewas kind of talking back and forth with
the guy behind the counter, andit was like, is this real type
of thing? And he was kindof like, you know, we don't.
I don't really know that. Ithink everyone was kind of leaning towards
it being not real, but mostbut there was that it was so well

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done that the kind of felt itwas those those days of the internet were
so early that like no one couldbe totally sure whether it was really not.
I remember my cousin was like,oh, yeah, these fucking three
people died in the forest and theymade a movie with their camera and like
when you're fourteen, You're just likethat sounds like it's legitimates. Yeah,
we're just like, yeah, it'sonly but I remember I like, like
yourself, David. I went tosee it in the cinema as well,

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with two friends of mine. Andwhen you're with the two your two dogs,
your two bros, you're young.I was about fourteen, I think,
yeah, fifteen, Yeah, andI went to see it and we
were like, oh, sure,that's only scary if you're afraid of sticks
and stones, and then as like, you know, because like the little
stuff they leave outside the tents orwhatever. And then as soon as I

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go home, I was like,yeah, I don't feel I feel kind
of pretty nervous about Timber and feelingpretty bad. How many people do you
think saw that and it saw itbefore? A friend saw it and then
made one of those little stick figures, had had their friend go see it,
and while they were at the movies, they hung those things up around

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their porch or something and for himto get the yeah, the shot of
do you know actually in that filmthat you were supposed to see the Blair
Witch but it was because of Ithink it was, Yeah, so you
were supposed to see the Blair whichin that last scene I believe it was
where he's facing the corners in thewall. Yeah, yeah, but what

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happened was the cameraman actually forgot topoint that. Literally, that was the
mistake. And because of that,and because of the nature of the film
and how it was done, theyjust they didn't have the fodage to all
that, So that that mishap actuallykind of made the film because if you
had seen The Blair, which Idon't know whether it would did any of
you guys see the second like theremake of Blair, which so they do

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show either there which no, no, I saw that one too. That
was on her role. They're allbumbing each other out in the porch or
whatever. That one's crazy, likethey just they all get possessed. They
all, yeah, literally, theyall get possessed by the Blair Witcher like
it's orgy time and Marilyn Manson issinging fucking fucking mechanical animals in the background
or whatever the fuck. But sothey actually remade it though, like I

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don't know, five ten years ago. Yeah, and you do see the
Blair Witch and she's not looking well, but yeah, it's again you don't
years are well hundreds of years behindher, but yeah, it's it's a
that one, Yeah, definitely.And it was the first movie as well
that kind of perfected that, likeit created a whole genre of footage movies.
You know, yeah, it absolutelypioneering that. And I just I

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think it's hilarious that tidbit that shesaid Rob was that that made the movie.
It's kind of like the artificial sweetenersof horror movies. Like they just
stumbled upon it and and they werelike, wow, this actually works.
Yeah, this is more like that. Yeah, that idea, like that
concept can work. So while forhorror film, did any of you guys

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see the fellow who one of theguys who made that, he went on
to make a movie called Exists,which is like a big foot movie.
Okay, when you guys doing thatthat, it's like, you know,
a couple of a couple of cryptidboys here, But that's it's actually not
it's actually really good. Like it'sI saw years and years and years ago.
Because my sister is like mad intospooky movies, or at least was

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before she had a kaiden. Nowshe's like, I don't have time to
be to be afraid. My lifeis constantly being afraid for my child.
So but we we watched that.We would like always watch whatever, you
know, new horrors were out there, especially when you could like stream him
pretty easy. But that's actually likea really good big Foot movie. Okay,
like really really good. Yeah.I didn't even I was other than

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the Parson. Yeah, that waspretty much it. Yeah, no,
I must, I must check thatout. I don't think that's a topic.
Aredre Any gold crypted aside from thisone, dre Any crypted films,
right, that's hired that most ofthem, I'm kind of serious. Maybe

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I don't. I don't think thereare any you know, it wasn't long
ago I watched Bob kat Goldthweight actuallydirect him. Yeah. I think it's
called Willow Creek. Yeah. Um, we actually talked to Bryce Johnson was
one of the leads in that.He's on the big Foot Collectors Club podcast.
Um, and yeah, he wastalking about, you know how cool

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it was to film that and everything. It's it's another one of the it's
not well. I guess it wouldbe considered found footage because they are filming
it and then at the end,you know they lose the camera. Let's
say, um, it's it's interesting, it's worth a watch. I don't
know if I would call it likestraight up horror, but yeah, yeah,
it tends to great. It's allit's all that last that last four

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or five minutes. So you haveseen it or yeah I've seen that.
I've seen yeah, yeah, yeah, so yeah, okay, it's so
hard to watch that. Balt wouldsay, yeah, I would say so
worth worth watch. Yeah yeah,yeah, I'll check it out there.
So yeah, I think I reallyenjoyed Midsummer more recently, just because how
fuck up that film was. Theold pushing as Arson and I'll when he's

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tricked out, when he's on topof your one, the new Midsummer I
don't want to come out like acouple of years ago. Okay, I
haven't seen that. Have you notseen that? Oh? Oh man,
you need to watch that. That'suh it's the same guy who did Hereditary,
who was in Hereditary. Those aretwo films to check out if you
haven't seen them. Okay, they'relike the new wave of what people are
like art horror, Like they're they'rehorror movies, but they're done in ways

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that are kind of you know,it's not like watching a slasher or anything
like that, Like it's I don'tthink, but yeah, I quite enjoyed
and Maid Summer as well. Yeahthat's pretty good. There's like thought provoking
a little Yeah, but I thinkI definitely like that idea. I like
the blair Witch style, and insome ways I suppose Midsummer is a similar
style where it's just kind of itfeels like you're flying on the wall rather

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than they're trying to really grab yourattention with this stuff. It seems like
it just kind of like Midsummer forexample, is very kind of not much
goes on, but a lot goeson. It's one of those type of
things where it's all in the sameset. And I actually think with horror
films a lot of time, theless budget they have, the better they
are. Maybe some of the reallygood, like even the Far Saw,

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I think it is a great film. Yeah yeah, fuck all budget for
that film, the fuck all budgetfor blair Witch. Yeah yeah. Horror
is known to be like the genrewhere the markup is much higher. So
like that's quite a load of becauselike you don't really need a whole lot
to make decent horror movies, youknow, And so like a lot of
guys who are starting out film andlike, obviously you're not going to be
able to make this really in debtaction movie or whatever, but a horror

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movie that's just that because tension isall just camera angles, even when you
think about like music and camera anglesand lighting, and you can create tension
if you're like, there's a guyaround the corner, and then they just
do it in a way where slowly, slowly, slowly, Oh he's not
there. Oh fuck, he's alwaysnot there again, always going to be
there. The music stops, andthen he's there and you're fucking shit yourself.
But it's you know, it's likeso it's a it's a way as

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long as you know, I supposethe language of the lens, then you're
able to create something that's legitimately creepy. Because even the Babba Duke is another
one that's a legitimately unsettling movie.And I think as well, it's another
shoe string budget. Yeah, yeah, paranormal activity that oh yeah, it's
a great one. Me and robsallthat together in the cinema. I think

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they they made that with like twentyfive bucks and like a Starbucks coupon or
something like it, and then it'slike multimillion dollars you know returns. So
yeah, because I think I wasreading I can't remember which day the thirteen
there was, it might have beenthe first one, but it made like
seven hundred times the thing the moneythat went into it. And then by

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the I think, you know,the one where Jason is going around Manhattan
with a machette for some reason bythe end of that so that's scared the
shit out of me as a kid, like a young kid, you know,
but it's it's it is ridiculous.But I think that made like seven
times it's budget, and obviously thebudget must have been much higher, but
they were like, oh, thisis a complete loss. You know.
It's like, well, what didyou think was gonna happen? He's walking

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around Times Square? Like was Horroris the best genre, I think because
there's so much there's a lot youcan do with it. Yeah, well,
you know it even because a lotof the films are shit. It
actually like made another genre within agenre of like Hare's comedy horror films.
Here's like, yeah, there's likelepra con or like the lepracn franchise is

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hilarious. Oh yeah, Leppie andthe holding stuff like that. You remember
that one. Yeah, that's right. He's fighting ice iced tea, isn't
it because I hear Ice cuts icedtea? Yeah, yeah, it was
an ice cub would have been outwith budget, ye, because they wouldn't
have been able to afford them.Maybe it's still iced tea. After cop
killer was looking, people weren't lookingat him too fondly. I think,

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um, but no, I thinkyeah, I think my goal tools would
be insidious. I think Blair,which is a great shout because yeah,
it's but it is like a Marmitefilm for people. Some people fucking love
it and then other people are like, this is a pile of bullshit.
Yeah, some people feel cheated atthe end, but it's like, oh,
what the fuck do you want?Really? Is is anything going to
satisfy you for five seconds at theend of the week? You know,

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it's kind of It's one of thosethings. But I think they're gold.
We talked about last year a TVshot that had actually come out around the
Halloween, and I think it's anothergreat one too. Yeah, have you
seen no, I've heard good thingsthought. Yeah, yeah, I think
that if you can get around toget into it before Halloween or even it's

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a nice little one to watch aroundthis time of year. I think it's
a very good one. It's thesame guy who did it is a bly
house and all that em and yeahyeah, yeah, and Mike Flanagan.
I believe he has that new oneelse, the Midnight Club, I believe.
I saw the first episode of that. Yeah, I only saw the
first one or two episodes. Lookslike that they it's not it doesn't seem

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scary, but it's got a niceatmosphere too, it I guess it does.
Yeah, it's it's kind of it'skind of like what would you do
if you like stranger things up ina house and they just told yeah,
those stories to each other. Butpretty much that first the first episode,
the bit where the girls screaming onthe street and stuff, that was hilarious.
I love it. That was sofunny to me. But was it

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that It's a kind of like,is it it's not supposed to be hard
and right, I think yeah,yeah, it is a little of both.
Yeah, because you know the wayhit like a like when you watch
Midnight Mass and Haunts and Hillhouse andall that. It tends to be a
very like human like it's a harderthing, but there's a lot of sort
of drama and characterization. This isthe similar thing. It's about a lot

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of terminal kids and basically, likeyou're you know, they go to this
place where they're they're sort of expectedto live out the last you know,
a couple of months or whatever theirlives, and they're all just telling each
other ghost stories every night. Soit's right, yeah, it's it's it's
interesting, you know. But againI've only watched, like, I think,
only one more episode than yourself,David, So it's yeah, yeah,
I couldn't have a fully a fullykind of you know, flesh out.

(23:33):
Yeah, exactly exactly. I dolike his other stuff. I've enjoyed
the what is it hunting and Hillhouseor yeah, I thought that was great
and blind manner or whatever it was. I I do appreciate those. I
I would say, there's a coupleof things I'd do different, you know,
if I were directing it, Butyou know, you could say that

(23:56):
about anything. I think overall,I enjoyed it. I love the how
in I think it was the firstone. I think it was the Hillhouse
one. Uh. There were alot of shots where you could see someone
standing in the background and they justanything, They just stood there. I
thought that was really cool. Itotally agree. Yeah, I love that,
and they were so hired to seebecause I remember I heard about that

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and I was watching and I waslike, where are these motherfuckers? And
then I saw like the Battle ofwinter Fell horses. They should have done
that with fucking game. That episodeshould have turned into some type of horror.
Yeah, or that was enough tobe fair at that part where you

(24:40):
stuck between the sort of mountain ofhorses on that and he's like, oh
yeah, that gave me massive anxiety. I was like, yes, Christ,
this is fair. Yeah, Ithink yeah. I think one thing
that popped into me had, whichis a fun question as well, folks,
is I think I'll take a first, I'll let you guys think of
an answer, because it's kind ofan on the spot one. What was

(25:03):
the most scared you've ever been inyour life? It can be it can
be like from watching a film,it can be from like literally scared,
and there can be any reason orcause. I think for me, like
from like a piece of media.It's a really dumb one. I was
like eleven or twelve, I think, and I grew up on Resident Evil,

(25:25):
its Resident Evil when I was akige, you know, and I
was reading the Resident Evil books.Oh yeah, Caliban Cove and all that.
Well, yeah, yeah, theResident Evil books by like st Perry,
I believe. Yeah, she's towrite the Alien books as well,
back in the day, I believe. Yeah. And so I was reading
The Umbrella it's called The Umbrella Conspiracy. Yeah, it's the first one.

(25:48):
It's basically based on Resident Evil one, but it does this really good job
of and look there for the fourteenagers, these books are not really like
fucking you're not going to read them, no, one go wow, it's
started. I have City of theDays Resion Evil two one, and I
started reading it like a few weeksago, a few months ago, and
I was like, wow, thisreally and I was captivated by this and

(26:10):
I was yeah, yeah, no, it's it's like it's in the same
vein as like Point Horror. Yes, yes, remember the Point Hard books.
Yeah, And so that I wasreading that and for whatever reason this
particular night, I was like,there's fucking zombies coming into my house,
I fucked and I just kept inahead. I was like here in the

(26:32):
front door, banging and ship andI was like, something's going down to
and I just called and I hadthe blankets are from a head and shit,
and I just resigned to the factthat that I was going to get
And I don't know why or whathappened, but that particular night, for
some reason, I was able togeem myself up into like a zombie frenzy.

(26:53):
Obviously, I've probably been more scared, like someone was trying to kick
the shit out of me or something, but seeing it every now and then,
it's probably like, so, whichone of you guys wants to go
first? And he's got one.I got. I got so like in
real life. I remember getting stuckin a riptide before, and the worst,

(27:14):
the worst thing about it, Iwas way way way out of my
depth. I was trying to swimback in I couldn't, and only for
the love of God, I hada snorkel on so I was still able
to breathe, but I was like, I couldn't swim forward, and I
was like, well, this isI'm going to die now shortly, and
I think the most listeners hang outof blurry photos. That's a running joke.
Is going to die? Yet basicallyhe has like five raternity stories.

(27:37):
Yeah, I'm constantly nearly drowning.It's just I have no respect for water.
I like, I'm wading it inyour pockets as I as I'm wading
into the water on a summer's day, I'm like, you will answer to
me water, you know, I'mtaking it on. Take the elements.
But yeah, it was stuckman,and I was like, yeah, you're
gonna fucking die here, like youknow, that's it. And the worst

(28:00):
thing about it was that the fearI felt wasn't worse than like other fear
I've had over trivial things in mylife, Like you know when you wake
up and it's like, oh mygod, it's five past nine. I
was meant to fee and work likeminutes ago. Like it was that fear,
and I was like, oh,fuck, are you trying to be
Like the fear I have just ingeneral is like the same fear you have
when you're about to die. Iwas like, this is some bullshit.

(28:21):
So and then I think practicing,you're yeah, I'm prepared. You'll see
me on my deathbed, and I'llbe all like, this ain't shit.
I got this, I got this. I've far backfiring exactly. But I
think like as an actual as ayounger kid, because obviously now you can
watch a scary movie and it doesn'tplay as much on your mind as it

(28:44):
would have, you know, twentyyears ago. But I remember I watched
the the nineteen nineties eight adaptation withTim Curry as the clown, and it
was like the two movies, youknow, back to back. So we
had like two vhs as we watchedas kids, and oh my god,
Like I just couldn't get it outof my head. It was just it

(29:06):
was living there rent free. Everytime I tried to sleep, I kept
just imagining the clown's face rising upfrom beside my bed and I said,
we all float down here, amen. I was like, oh fuck.
And so that one got me.Texas Chainsaw Massacre got me as well,
because I had this thing it's sodumb where I'd be like in bed it

(29:26):
was like thirteen, and I wasjust thinking about, you know, what
the text says are, and Icould like psych myself up to so much
that I think I'd nearly be herein Chainsaw. I was going up like
it was out a chainsaw, butit's far away or is that just the
nice wind? You know? Soyeah, that's but I think, yeah,
Halloween, it's Texas Chainsaw massacre.And maybe when I was really small

(29:48):
there was we have a book shopin her hometown of Wexford called the Book
Center, and they had this bookthat was like Nightmare in Elmstreet and had
Freddie doing you know, those thefucking scissors and kind of in front of
his face, that creepy thing hedoes, and I remember I used to
have to like put my hands overmy face when I walked past it.
I was like hey years old.And they had a little cafe there,

(30:11):
so we go there for some foodon a Saturday, the family, and
then I'd be walking around trying toget to the Batman comics, but I
had to go past Freddy Krueger waslike a gauntlet, so I'd like put
my hat over my eye used tillI got to Batman and then I was
okay again. I got aim andactually reminded me of one, so I've

(30:32):
got two now. The first one, I was probably around six or seven,
seven or eight something like that,and a friend of mine had an
in ground pool and he was havinga birthday pool party, and you know,
a bunch of us were over swimmingand stuff, and then I think,
um, I think his mom calledout that she had you know,

(30:55):
made the frozen pizzas or whatever,and so it's time to come in and
eat, and um, everybody's likegetting out of the pool and I was
like, I'm going to do onelast cannonball or something, and I jumped
into the deep end of the pooland then for some reason just panicked and
I was like thrashing around, didn'tknow what was going on, and you
know, gasping for air. Andone of my friends jumped in and pulled

(31:21):
me out, and I'm I'm certainhe saved my life. It's crazy.
Um. But because everybody else wasalready running away and you know, wasn't
really paying attention, he was thelast one that was leaving the area and
saw me and was like, well, I better deal with this jabrone.
So before I can get high onpepperoni, I do bert pei. Um.

(31:47):
So So that was that, youknow, remembering back that that was
pretty harrowing for me. But inum, in high school, uh,
I think I was probably I let'ssay seventeen maybe eighteen, UM, and
I was driving around one night tryingto impress a girl, uh, and

(32:07):
I was like, Hey, I'mgonna show you the house I grew up
in. You know, way backin the country. There's like no houses
for a mile or two and inany direction, and m it was pretty
you know. I was probably likeeight or nine at at night and it
was very dark, um. Andwe're driving down there and get to get

(32:30):
to the house. I'm like,yeah, well here it is, you
know, really exciting. But thenall of a sudden, the outside light
comes on and this guy busts outof the house full tilt running. And
luckily there was a pretty decent sizedyard. I would say, you know,
fifty to seventy yards um of ofyard space um. And so so

(32:55):
you know, maybe I don't know, maybe maybe a good hundred hundred and
fifty feet for our American friends here. But I saw this guy come out
and I was like, oh shit, like, this guy's just gonna straight
up murderous, like he's gone he'llhave you know, I'm pretty sure he
had a gun and everything. Andso I backed into this There was a

(33:22):
place where cars parked on one sideof the road, and then on the
other side of the road there wasthis little just kind of dive it where
you could park a car or youcould turn around. You know, it's
just a cutout space. Yeah.And the thing was it was kind of
on an incline. So I backedthe car into this space to turn around

(33:42):
and get away from the Psycho,and you know, the car the tires
are spinning, and I'm like,holy shit, this is a literal horror
movie. And you know, thegirl I'm with just like, go go,
go go. And I'm like,I'm fucking trying. What do you
think? And and he gets outtoo the road and he's close enough to
where I can see he's like he'snot wearing a shirt, he's not wearing

(34:05):
shoes. He's just like jumped outof bed, came came a running with
a gun and I was making outorder. This is important to you too.
Has what does he have? Hismaking out His penis no, no,
he had it. It's like he'smore pants or jeans. He's completely
nude. He was just covered inwode paint. He was screaming, like

(34:29):
total berserker coming at me. ButI don't if he has his pins on,
I might wrestle him, but ifhe's got his pins off, I
locked all on the other side,like you know, you're trying to impress
it out of the kop, likeI see the weak point, you know.
Um. But anyways, the carfinally got traction and got out of
there without us getting shot, andI like sped off down the road.

(34:49):
I ended up like turning off,um about a mile or two down the
road and turning into a field andshutting the car off because I was afraid
he was gonna jump in and followus. And yeah, it was.
That was pretty terrified. Did youever hear anymore about that character or anything?
No idea who it was? Yeah, yeah, that sounds Yeah,

(35:14):
I mean, what do you reckonhe was? Was he? Was he
going at you guys specific? Yeah, So I'm guessing you know, it's
a paranoid sort that grows up inthe country down there, you know,
since nobody's around. If you do, if a car comes at nine o'clock
at night and kind of lingers,something's up. So he had every right
to be worried, I guess,even though he really didn't. But um,

(35:37):
you know, you could have acar's getting broken into or people siphoning
gas or something like that, youknow, and and maybe he had maybe
somebody had plagued him before. Idon't know, but yeah, that was
it was pretty terrifying. Yeah,because that's like a real thing to be
afraid of, you know what Imean, Like when you watch a movie

(35:57):
and you're like, oh, maybea killer is under the bad but then
I was like, oh, there'sthere's a semi dressed man chasing me with
weaponry. Yeah, you're like,right, time to go. Yeah,
the gun thing is a fucking game. Like I forget sometimes that, like
guns are like an everyday thing inAmerica, and like I'd probably get shot
in America's really quickly because like overhere there is none of that, Like

(36:21):
it's not even a part of theequation, like you know, um,
and you wouldn't even think of him, like and so all to think that,
like, yeah, a guy likehair, if there was a lad
like that running out of the car, chances are he's going to have like
a hammer or a hatch. Isuppose it is equally scary, But I

(36:43):
take that over a lad with Isn'tthat Isn't that a funny thing? Speaking
of horror movies and and scary movies. Scary movies aren't scary when the guy
has a gun, like they alwayshave knives, they have sides, fucking
nun chucks. Whatever it is whohas which can name a character it has
a gun in there in a horrormovie. Yeah, terminator the guy,

(37:07):
Yeah right, he's a scary mockery. I think the scares When I watched
him as a kid, I wasscared of my shit. Yeah, to
be fair, it was like theultimate bag when I watched Herminatoor two when
I was like eight or nine,and that was as scary as any other
horror film that that to me asa child, And if anyone listens that's
watched as the own person, they'lltestify that film is scary as fuck.

(37:30):
He was a scary character because hecan impersonate anyone. I think. I
think it's I think it's like thesame thing that kind of makes Michael Myers
and Jason Vore he's scary. It'slike it's he's relentless, like to stop
him, yeah, like person,and he can just turn his hands into
knives, you know, which islike Edward Scissor hands, like fucking on

(37:52):
speed or whatever. But it's it'sbut yeah, yeah, like that that
is true. But horror as agenre, it doesn't really fuck around with
people with guns, even though it'sway more scary in real life. It's
like, I think it's something todo with the intimacy of killing you with
a knife. Yeah, do youknow what I mean? Like it's like
he must really want to kill me, Like someone can kind of not really

(38:14):
want to kill you and kill youwith a gun, like, ah,
fuck, I didn't really want tokill them, But here we could be
a slower death too, yea yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, um,
and you can't you know, onceyour shot, your shot kind of
thing, I suppose if you wantto get a bit of abstract again,
not horror, horror, but whileit's kind of the reverse, Day didn't

(38:35):
have guns, but a lot ofguns were in the films, just like
the Alien franchise, I think attimes. Yeah, definitely the I think
the first Alien movie is one hundredpercent horror. Yeah, and I will
say I love and I wouldn't puthim in like Aliens, say, I
think Alien's a fantastic movie. Wouldn'thave it in my kind of Halloween site
movies, But like the likes ofJaws Alien, like those creature movies.

(38:59):
I love those survival creature movies ashorror, you know, Trimmers. Oh
fantastic, Yeah, because that's solike fun as well, Like it's just
such a fun movie, it reallyis. I I man, I grew
up watching that and it The creepiestpart of that movie to me is when

(39:20):
the couple are in the station wagonout in the desert and it like comes
up and swallows the whole station wagonand they've got this far this like you
know, a shot from a littlebit of a distance, and you just
hear him screaming, the radio going, and then the car just tips up,
you know, on its end,and then just sort of disappears and

(39:42):
the lights kind of blink out.That was the creepiest part of the movie
to me, Oh for sure,for sure. Yeah. There's like I
love the way they do a littlebits of foreshadow and that as well.
Like it's it's actually a genius movie, like the way it's put together,
like in its own way, becauseyou know that part at the start of
the movie, there's that thing withthe fridge vibrating when Kevin Bacon and the
other guy are there and then likehe was like, oh, yeah,

(40:05):
it's you know, shitty fridge orwhatever. And then later it's like,
oh, they hear vibrations and itactually comes back into it way later,
like it just it just sort ofsets everything up so well in that movie,
like it's all just such and alot of those eighties and nineties movies,
like I watched the original RoboCop before, it might beat the Citizen Kane
of the eighties, like it's it'skind of a perfect movie, like it's,

(40:30):
yeah, it might be the CitizenKane of the eighties because I read
I read about that movie as faras a Paul Verhoeven and he did like
Starship Troopers and stuff as well.But apparently if you watch RoboCop and you
watch it front to back, soyou play it regularly and then just play
it at the same speed, butin reverse, the shots all line up

(40:51):
and there's there's some name for Ican't remember, but it's like it's a
perfectly balanced movie. The action,you know, Okay, that's interesting,
Like, yeah, what happens whenyou play it to Dark Side of the
Moon. Oh, I think thatno one ever sees you again. I
think that's it. Yes, followedup if you play, if you play

(41:12):
like, here's a root shape Zeppelinhorror who comes out with the screen again?
I got I've got a trivia questionfor you guys. What is the
only horror film to win Best Picture? Oh? Rosemary's Baby? Is that

(41:36):
right? Okay? Okay, giveme a go. Okay, you fucked
off, you fucked Let me see, um, can we have a hint
of which decade? Sure? Masterthe nineties? Okay, it's definitely not
Rosemary's Baby. It's a horror film. Yeah, they call it a horror
film. Yes, okay, right, Oh from then ainties, Jesus,

(42:00):
we should notice Salmon. We shouldreally like the most famous one of the
nineties is Scream, Right, Butit's not that. It's definitely not right.
No, it's definitely not. Inot watched it it last summer,
and it's definitely not Charity Falls.So I'll give you another hid. I
wouldn't straight up consider this horror.Yeah, I would have put it in
probably a slightly different kind of genre, but I can see where the horrors.

(42:25):
Drassic Park is no, no,but you're close. Well yeah,
yeah, Drassic Park was like ablockbuster, and I was thinking, you
know, in a sense, itis kind of horror ish. I mean,
if you're right, Oh yeah,there's part yeah, yeah for sure,
Um, the only one I canI think. I was, like

(42:45):
I said, can't be right,like Jacob's Ladder didn't win Best Picture.
No, no, but you mightbe closer and style with that. Maybe
I can't even remember if I've seenthat. Yeah, I truly don't have
any idea. You'll have to You'llhave to hook us up with an answer.

(43:06):
It is Silence of the Lambs oryeah, so you know, I
Irishman probably called that like psychological thrillermore than I would horror. But but
I mean, yeah, I candefinitely see. Yeah, I can see
it's as close as it's going tobe, right, Yeah, I guess
so. Yeah. But not onlydid it win Best Picture when the top

(43:28):
five, it's one of only likethree films to win director, actor,
actress, writer, and picture.Jeez. I'm trying to think from a
I think from a narrative perspective.I'm trying to think what horror films are
like actually really solid and engaging withoutbeing too trophy. And to be honest,

(43:49):
that's where you kind of run intoproblems with horror because a lot of
it is visual and and tension building, but story wise, I'm kind of
drawn blanks where I'm like, thatfucking Straws story was really good as well.
Yeah, you know they it didn'twin Best Picture was nominated, but
the Exorcist one writing and Sound.I thought that was going to be.

(44:10):
When you said the nineties, thenI was fucked because I thought the Exorcist
might be one ye, that thatwould be considered because it's a it's it's
just such a classic and everyone kindof holds everybody. Everybody is scared of
death, of that. And Iwatched it and left my ass off,
and I don't know. If Ididn't, I'm going to turn into beetlejuice.
But I did say it at thetime. I was kind of I

(44:36):
missed it when I was young,Like I said, early nineties. Saw
you know, you're you're a kidof like I suppose any age after seven
or eight, you're trying to getyour hands on films that frightened, and
Exorcists have been out a long time. I did catch polar guys that frightens.

(44:57):
Yeah. Yeah, it's so awesome, though, when you watch it
and you're older, and it doesn'tscary, and you're just like, he's
fighting a tree. This is awesome. I love the Body Snatchers. Body
Snatchers is really scary. I foundthat that remake that came out even though
your one got or diddye out forthe stuff, you were kind of like,
oh, this is interesting. Butthen she that was a very irish
line. I said, there,David, I'm sorry, but there's a

(45:17):
part where I think a kind ofit's actually kind of well done because it
shows you that this person is nothuman. So for people that don't know
Invasion of the Body Snatchers, obviouslythey're like aliens, right, and they're
and they're inhabiting people, and theylook the same as regular people. But
I think one of the ways thatyou can catch them out is they don't

(45:37):
actually know how to behave like peopleproperly. And saw there's a scene and
that I think where the mac comesin and she's checking in on the kids
or something, and then I thinkshe just whips out or something like that,
and they're like, Okay, thisis a fucking weird. But that's
how you know that this isn't right. Like same thing happened in Terminator too,

(45:58):
must have been the troup at thetime. Was when the liquid terminator
was on the phone as the manand then the camera pans out and she
has the fuck he has the knifethrough? Did she? Did she have
a cycloptic tit out as well?Call it that I can't remember. James
Cameron would want I'm not making thisfield if there's no tits. This is

(46:20):
the lasts, not an odd numberof tits somewhere. He He's like,
he wanted to make, Ah,what's that fucking movie? You know,
the Girl with the three tits withArnold Schwarzenegger. Total total recall. Yeah,
I was gonna say Resurrection. Man. It was like, oh that's

(46:45):
it. Yeah. He goes hometo his wife and she's like a sound
just like another side. Funny enough, Not very many asides from darvious Halloween,
not very many spooky films set atHalloween that are actually gold is really
the titular Halloween? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We discussed have

(47:07):
you seen the new trilogy devis ofI haven't not yet. Anyway, first
one's goals. We discussed it onan episode when he feels a while back
and you know, it's, um, it's great, it's hard to watch.
I would say, if if you'rea fan of the originals, like,
like you know, I'm kind ofa fan of all of those,

(47:28):
and so I thought, yeah,I'll give me a goal. I thought
they would go for what the Warriorbus. I thought, I thought this
new one kind of I feel likethey progressively got worse. Yes, that
went on. How are you withthe Michael Myers type of slasher films?
Really into him? I'm okay withthem. I yeah, I don't seek
them out. I don't think Iwould. I used to be scared to

(47:49):
watch Nightmare in Elm Street when Iwas a kid, and then you know,
I was probably nine or ten,and I was like, you know
what, I'm just gonna I'm gonnarint one. I'm and watch it see
how it is. And then Ithought Freddy was so hilarious that I just
binged them all. Yeah, andI just you know, it's there's something
about it, like there's creepy parts, but he's so funny and I love

(48:12):
puns, so yeah, yeah,he has that great one? Was it?
I can't remember. It's a nightmareand I'm street one or two.
But the Pirates where it's like oneof Johnny Depp's first acting gigs and he's
in the water bed and like themodel on his poster comes alive and he's
like, oh, sexy things aregonna happen. And then Freddy's like,
I'll give you a wet dream andhe like pulls into the into the water

(48:35):
bed that just explodes blood all overthe room. It's so good. Yeah.
I think the one I've been tryingto get a film was when I
was about sixteen. I was gonedown to rent out garden next door so
I can have a wank, andI think that was I think that was
an Eightienes film at the time,So I was having palpitations, probably more
so than ever. You were likethe guy who knows what's up. It's
like, why does this kid whocomes in here and constantly rents Horrors PlayStation

(48:59):
two? Yeah, he's like he'shere getting gar next door. This was
before an internet porn rady saw.You know, you kind of had to
do what you had to do,at least in Ireland. That was it
was the back of the day.We didn't we didn't even have playboys here
to like nineteen ninety six or somethinglike that. Man, Yeah, I
was trying to have a here asa pew best ten people. It was

(49:22):
the fucking smuggle condoms. Oh yeah, England, Wow, because the Catholic
charge was over the Hall of Irelandto say, and condoms weren't loud.
We weren't loud have any condoms.There was literally condom runners. I remember
I went to there was some talkone night and it was like it was
like a story slam kind of thing, and one of the people was telling
the story about how she used toshe was women she was seeing and they're

(49:43):
just getting pregnant, like every ninemonths pregnant, pregnant, pregnant as soon
as their writers. Twins that's thename for it. The which to call
that, Irish twins, Irish twinkids back to back, that the name
for that. Yeah, yeah,because yeah, because we were we were
at it and I'd tell you yeah, but they used to yeah, they
used to. Yeah, any anymarried man in Ireland, like back in

(50:05):
the eighties, like oh he fuckslike like once every nine months. You
best believe um, Yeah, yougo ahead. Sorry, No, I
was just gonna say. Yeah.She was just saying like they used to
smuggle condoms in and give him tothese women and they be because they were
like, Oh, I haven't hada child in fourteen months. This is
great. I love I love theidea of a bootleg condom salesman. He's

(50:30):
just wearing this trench code outside theschool or whatever. Yeah, he just
like opens it up. He's like, what do you guys need? You
need lubed, you need ribbed?I got them all, every one.
First one's free, the next one'sgonna cost you. It was also probably

(50:51):
a lady definitely in or that therewas a lad at some point in time
that was pottonholes and I can't peoplehe didn't like. He was like this
motherfucker, I gotta get him fuckedthere ver. Yeah, will checking on.
But yeah, and also that wasthat was my scariest moment. I
think I was trying to rent theguard next door orny sixteen year old.
Yeah, I think because I'm alittle bit older, and I probably rented

(51:13):
it as a nineteen year old withthe same same most probably, but it
was just like that because like threeyears from sixteen to nineteen is actually a
huge amount of time at that age, you know, So I was probably
like, yeah, and the guywho was like looking at him as like,
you know what's happening here? Bro, here's here's my extra vision guard,
Get out of here. I thinkI was fifteen actually, because it
was the sixteen play, right right, I think I was fifteen. So

(51:37):
yeah, I remember. I rememberone Halloween, my dad rent and Scream
one for me or maybe it wasScreamed too. Maybe it was Screamed too,
And the guy at the video storeI was like, are you sure
you want to rent this for him? I mean that I was like,
yeah, it's grand, like it'slike it's very scary and there's lots of
brutality and that I was just like, look, I don't really give a
fuck about him, so like likeI don't care what do you watch?

(52:00):
That was pretty wild, Like likeI don't know about yourself to Evin,
but I think we had a fairlyunfiltered childhood. So as a matter of
fact, I think that unfiltered childhoodwas probably you know what started the ball
rolling with the interesting like even Cryptisfurther down the line and paranormal stuff,
and you know, for us toeven start the podcast, I reckon it

(52:22):
all came from being kind of Idon't know. They were treated almost as
a treat for us as kids.It's like, oh, you'll be able
to watch, like, oh,we'll let you watch this fucking fifteens film
if you you know, be goalsand you're like, okay, well,
I have friends who's like parents legitimatelyjust didn't give a fuck. They were

(52:43):
like renting them out commanding. Thatwas always Schwartzinger when they were seven or
whatever. They were always the kid. Yeah, they were always the coolest.
Yeah. I just watched see they'relike he realized he rose a pipe
through another man in this and hewas like, ah, yeah, sure
it'll be grand Steve Bennetts. Youpushing too many? Yes, um yeah,

(53:04):
No. My my parents were great. They they they really didn't care.
I was watching, like I said, Trimmers, I was watching the
movie major league quality. Yeah,it's a great movie. I think I
think we we all as a familywatched Lethal Weapon one night, so like
they're just like there's a part atthat beginning, you know, where they're
boning and and my mom was justlike cover your eyes, and I'm like,

(53:30):
how about noh, Like he madethe mistake of bringing me home.
He went on that one time whenI was pretty young, probably like five
or six, and he brought meback one of the old I can't remember
who met the toy line, butit was the Alien toys. He brought
me back Queen Alien. It waslike the flying Queen Alien toy. And

(53:52):
I was like, this is thefucking coolest shit ever. I had never
seen the films, but I waslike, this is the coldest fucking shit.
So then, like when I waspestering him to let me watch Elie
and I need, it wasn't letme. I was like, let me
watch them. You brought me tomotherfucking toys like it's in the film.
Now you don't watch them. Buthe was like not having it's all.
Eventually I got around to seeing allof the aliens. Aliens I think was

(54:12):
the big obsession for me when Iwas a kid, like that franchise.
I had so many nightmares about beingchased by a fucking Zeena morph Like it
was crazy. When I was akid, Like, I was just fucking
shit scared of saying the morphs.It was such an irrational fair time.
Yeah, oh no, there's thefucking saying the morph going to get me
m if you had I don't knowif you're much of a costume fella,
d um We We've talked about itourselves over the years on our podcast both

(54:39):
do you have any costume have youdone that you're proud of? Or oh
yeah, avoid yeah, yeah yeah. Actually the past couple of years,
I've done a couple that I've beenreally really happy with. I don't go
out of my way to dress upor do do a lot of stuff,
but usually I can find one night, you know, near Halloween every year

(55:00):
where I can use that as anexcuse to put a costume together. So
a couple of years ago, UM, I put together the costume of the
motho Man, which was a combinationmoth Man slash Randy Savage. I've got

(55:22):
pictures of that one on the BlurryPhotos Facebook and the photos there. And
then, um, last year Iwent to a they had this like Murder
Mystery dinner party, you know,Halloween fun times bullshit, and everybody was

(55:44):
kind of assigned a character to play. Yeah part of them they're supposed to
be really good. Was that oneof those ones. It was like a
DVD to go along way or No, it was all live. It was
like a it was almost like moreof a play than anything, but it
was really loose and you know,it's people who were just there to get

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drunk and have fun, and soit was that aspect of it was kind
of shit. But my character wasMister Red, which was the devil,
and so yeah, I dressed up. I got all dressed to the nines
and devil attire and that's that's alsoon the Facebook photo album. So I
was really happy with how those twoin particular turned out. So yeah,

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I do love to dress up.Yeah, Sam, like like we had
yeah, like the last pretty much, I supposed the last. In early
ten years, I've bought a lotof effort into us. I think of
my teenagers. That was one ofthose saying. I was like, taal,
Halloween wasn't cool for a while.I was like the Invisible Man one
year, which I think was quiteimpressive. Yeah, yeah, yeah I
did because I had a big ass, fucking trench call and I was like,

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hang on, I could make areally easy started invisible Man style thing.
But that was kind of gross becauseI smoked at the time and I
was small and cigarettes the whole night. True, the bandages, the bandages,
we're getting fucking manky. I justremember taking about that and I was
like, well, they're fucking bandages. Um. But yeah, I've done
a couple of Yeah, like we'vetalked about him on the pod and stuffore

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him. We've definitely shown him onarapads. But I did dart Mall one
year. And I actually properly diddart Mall where I put on a ball
cap, I did, I didthe full face paint, I did everything.
It took me probably three hours orsomething to we're properly. Um,
but it was cool. Um.Do we have any Halloween memories? Do
you have any of them? There? Yeah, anything, I'll tell you

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an embarrassing one. Um, okaywhen I I don't know why all my
stories are involved around me being likesix or seven, but here we are.
So I was, yeah, Iwas maybe maybe four or five actually
at the time. It maybe ina little a little younger, but I
do remember. Um, one year, I was a big fan of the
cartoon Shira, and you know,I loved he Man, and so I

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also loved Shira, and so oneyear I was like, Mom, I
wanna I want to be Sheira forHalloween. And my mom was like,
are you sure? And I waslike yeah, man, like she was
awesome, and so she buys me, you know how they had the plastic
Halloween get ups where it's basically justlike an apron and then a mask.

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She gets me a shero one.And so I go trick or treating as
Shira that year, and um,the town I was a trick or treating
and they had something I remember itwas like at the courthouse or something.
They had a table set up whereyou just you know, lined up got
they handed out candy or something toeverybody. Was just one of those things,

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and they were handing out those waxlips. Yeah yeah, And we
get up there to them and theyhad fangs and they had like huge botox
lips, and they they hand methe huge red botox slips and my my
mom, like I remember the toneof her voice more than anything. She

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was like, he's a boy.So they take it back and give me
the fangs, and I'm like,yeah, I want to pull off the
properly lips. So yeah, Ijust I remember that one in particular,
just how much it embarrassed my mom. She was probably but that would have

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to be like whatever. But backthen, like thanks were a lot more
concert but it was very cool loverto indulge it all as well, you
know what I mean to what toindulge you? And she was great.

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And then we went home and watchedLeath a Weapon, you know, like
it's that's called good parenting. Let'sgo. Yeah, have you any I
think that's the only one that comesto mind, is like your one with
Sheer, except my sister was Sheira, and I don't think I was he
Mail. Maybe it was a turtle. That sounds like the kind of thing
I would have been into at thetime. But what was great is my

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parents' answer to both Sara and theturtles for a costume was just put on
a black bag each, but justfor Sheera. Give my sister Wellington boots.
They're like, there you go,turtle, turtles and Sheering go get
some sweets. Pretty much it islike so like a standard issue Irish costumes

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in the eddies and nineties was justa trash like sort of garbage black bag.
Just put your head through that.Yeah, you know you're spoky now
because you have a garbage bag overyour right so and as well, if
you were lucky, you got coalon your face, that's right, actually
robbed. Yeah, because I didn'treally like nowadays You're go into a shop

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and they have like wigs like todayand we're talking about did you get your
costumes? Costumes? But got thewig, and it's like it's it's so
easy you go in there, likeyeah. The only thing you can't get,
which I found out, was thosecontact lenses that like give your seat
through wise and stuff. Apparently they'renot allowed to sell them anymore. You
can only get them from peticians.Yeah. I had them with the dark

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mall. Yeah, back then thatwas like that's that was you were.
You were back in the all ornothing days before the government clamped down on
wild contact. Look, I nearlydid Department of damage trying to get them.
Shis right, to be quite honest, which like like they were all
those contact have you ever won contacts? Oh, I've won contact, but
I've never won one of the yah, the creepy ones or the yeah.

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Yeah, I just couldn't get themout of my eyes, Like and even
trying to get them in was reallyhard. It talked like fucking age just
for me together them in. Now, I'm really squeamish with my eyes saw
like as a reflex, I'll justlike kind of balls up my eye when
anything ever gets near. But likeby the time I actually got the dark

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Mall contact in my eye, myeye pretty much looked like Dart Mall without
them, because it's just like bloodshotcrying. But yeah, no, I
think for me, the Halloween memorywas pretty actually recently. Just last year,
we um six of us rented outa sort of a Irish kind of
farmhouse, like a really big onein the middle of nowhere, and we

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spent like the Halloween weekend in it, just chilling out, drink and shooting
the ship. We dressed up infancy dress and stuff for one of the
nights. I think that was justa real good buzz, you know.
It's just a good a good nightof Halloween stuff. Like a lot of
the time when I was younger,maybe ten years ago, we'd have like
big parodies and a thals were alwaysfun. We used to like push the

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ball out and do like three daysof drink and leading up the Halloween saw
like basically by that last day,only the strong has survived. But yeah,
I think I've always had good Halloween, So I was trying to make
the make a good time because it'ssomething different, right, Yeah, Yeah,
And You've always been very good atlike putting time into your your costumes

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and stuff like. You have patiencewith that. I get obsessed with it,
Jeff, for sure. So Ithink that concludes our Halloween spooky wrap
up. Just to get people inthe mood, I suppose, I'm or
hopefully people got a couple of recommendationsfor films and TV shows to watch and
stuff out of it, and aswell, you know, I'm sure Dave

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loves hearing from his listeners on aswell with ours. If he's had any
Halloween stories, do send them inthe Spooky or otherwise, you know,
it's always good to hear them.Ye're fairly interesting. But if you've got
anything that had David before we getup out of here, I don't think
so. I think I remembered moreabout myself than I ever thought I knew.
So as monster falls for you're backhere. Um, But yeah,

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guys, thanks for listening over andout