Ep. 209 - Welcome to the Vasarian Wine Mixer - Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman

It's time for a monstrous crossover as this week Nick and Chris are talking 1943's Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man! Two of Universals most popular monsters cross paths in an utterly disappointing tale.

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Episode Transcript

(00:32):
None. Hey everybody, what's going on?
Welcome to big dumb monsters. I am Chris.
I'm Nick. Nick was remote this week, so he
is not currently in studio. It's just Arthur and I.

(00:54):
We can pretty much say whatever we want right now, but I'd be.
So far. Away.
Yeah. Oh, that's right.
You're not actually on Mike. This week, we were disappointed
by Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman.
The 1943 Universal Monsters crossover didn't quite live up

(01:17):
to our expectations. There's a little boring, just
plot was just crap. Just.
It just did not deliver on what we were expecting.
And you're going to hear us gripe about it over the next,
you know, hour or so. But we always try to be
entertaining while we complain. So I hope you enjoy listening to
us talk about Frankenstein meetsthe Wolfman.

(01:38):
That's what we're talking about.Yeah.
Got it. You got there.
I got there. Yeah.
On big dumb monsters. Oh.

(02:25):
Hey. There we are.
We are separate, but still have come together as one.
Actually, the well, this is almost the first time we're all
together. Nick is remote, but we do have
art back finally. It was released from South
Sudan. Yes, in an intricate game, a
legal game of cat and mouse, through various prisoner

(02:49):
exchanges, various acts of public goodwill, we finally
secured his release. And all is well here.
Yes, yes, all is well here in the big dumb Monster Studio.
Except, I think, for our movie selection for this week.
It's not good. No, this is not good.
This was a a real fucking let down man.

(03:12):
We watched Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman.
Yeah. I I was hyped for this, like I
like. The last one we watched was
Ghost of Frankenstein, which waspretty, which was great.
Yeah, it. Was good and son of Frankie.
What's that? It brought a lot of the sci-fi

(03:34):
back to it. Yeah, yeah.
And then The Son of Frankensteinbefore that was pretty good too.
So we were on a hot streak as far as these Frankenstein movies
goes. Then we hit this one.
Yeah, that streak is over. Yeah.
Well, this one actually follows on the heels of the Wolfman.
Like the Wolfman comes out and then this comes out.

(03:55):
OK, OK. So I guess this is more a
Wolfman sequel than a Frankenstein sequel, but it
just, it kind of smashes them together in a way that is
terrible. Yeah, you, it's just like you
don't get much interaction between them.
Like you get a little bit in themiddle of the movie where it's,

(04:18):
you know, it's it's Lawrence Talbot and the monster
interacting. And then like at the end of the
movie, you get about 5 seconds of them fighting before the
castle, like, crumbles down around them.
Yeah. And then like that's about.
It and to be completely honest, like I didn't need them fighting
like they could have been working together the whole time

(04:39):
or or something like that. Like it we it didn't need to be
like these two big monsters now have to fight each other at the
end of this movie because they're monsters, I guess.
Yeah, like it didn't. The whole thing, the whole thing
was a mess because it, it's justlike, I mean, a little ahead of

(05:04):
the the trivia segment, but likethe studio fucked this movie.
Oh. Really.
Yeah, they did a lot of stuff tobasically, probably not on
purpose, but they basically sabotage Bela Lodosi as

(05:24):
Frankenstein from the jump. All right.
But that being said, even if they hadn't done that, it was a
weak movie to begin with. Yeah, no, I was going to say it
just doesn't know what to do with them.
Like the two characters, Like, well, it's basically it's like,

(05:46):
all right, I'm the wolf man. I was supposedly dead, but I
guess I'm alive again. Maybe Doctor Frankenstein can
figure out what's going on with me.
Oh no, he's dead. Which is a weird logic jump to
begin with. Yeah.
Like his whole thing was bringing the dead back to life,
not the other way around. Yeah, not why killing immortals

(06:10):
yeah dead turns into a werewolf like.
It's just bad, yeah. It's just bad storytelling.
It's like one of those things like you'd think Frankenstein,
werewolf, like, how can I not make a great movie out of this?
We found out. Yeah, you know how they did make
a good movie out of it? Abbott and Castello.

(06:34):
Yeah, like I, I'm a little more intrigued, like to keep going,
you know, pressing on with this series, like.
Oh, for sure. You know, I think like House of
Frankenstein and House of Dracula, like are more kind of
what we're looking for. But before we get there, I think
we have another like Frankenstein movie in there

(06:57):
between those between the next one.
I'm not sure. Yeah, let me look that up
because I have a computer right in front of me.
Very nice. There are convenience.
Working remote, huh? Yeah.
Yeah, a little. Bit don't have to wear pants.

(07:18):
No one knows when you're drunk. Well, exactly.
Speaking of which, I should say we are drinking some.
Oh, we have a banner for that too.
You want to run that real quick.Yeah, run that banner.
Drinking some delicious, delicious mirth, which you can
pick up at the Bulenbee Meetery.I thought I had.

(07:39):
Yeah, there it is. I just picked this up.
That code will get you $5 off ofyour online order.
And yeah, this is this is my favorite by far.
The mirth like it's it's that. Hades for me are my 2 favorites
but this one I think is is the best.
It's lavender and lemon. Fucking perfect, man.

(08:02):
Alex is so good. Yeah, Alex is making cocktails
with it the other day when I wasdown there.
That was pretty cool. It looks like after Frankenstein
meets the Wolfman, you have House of Frankenstein, House of
Dracula, and then Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein.

(08:23):
OK, All right, so we, we, yeah, we've, we've already watched
Abbott and Costello. All right, so House of
Frankenstein is next. Yes, OK, Abbott, Abbott and
Costello isn't really like. Part of the series.
Part of the series, yeah. All right.

(08:44):
Yeah, so. How's Frankenstein and House of
Dracula? And then we can go back for like
the other Gill Man movies and, you know, all that stuff.
Yeah, Invisible Man movies. Yeah.
This just really fucking bummed me out.
Like all around. The Frankenstein makeup was not
good. It it there were a couple of

(09:08):
scenes with the back of Bela Lugosi's head looked like it was
made out of rubber, like he he was wearing a rubber like
Frankenstein mask basically. Yeah, that might have been one
of his stunt double s, too. Bella was too jacked up on the
China white to to get a scene straight that day.

(09:34):
Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
Was he? Well, actually at this point I
don't think he was too too crazyon the needle.
Now I think that came later according to.
That came after after he stoppeddoing all the universal stuff.
Let's see, what else is there tosay?

(09:54):
Hey, what's going on? TJ Monster on campus.
You. Yeah.
Hydrate. Don't mind if I do.
No, this whole movie was just clumsy man.
What's the Oh, there we go. Been a while guys, sorry I'm a

(10:17):
little rusty. Did not keep up on his producing
skills when he was housed with. Thank you.
Yeah, thanks for stepping on my joke downer.
Yep. When you're done.

(10:42):
Wow, where is he? Is he on Mike?
He's in the chair. Oh wow.
Oh yeah, I see him back there. I was asked to perform produce a
different type of entertainment.Yeah, yeah, those were not the
buttons he was expected to push,if you get our drift.

(11:03):
Anyway, what else is there to say about this movie?
I just like it's a fucking mess all around.
Like the plot is shit. It is, it jumps around, it
doesn't have a flow like you know, transitions.
Like the monster stuff was good,like him turning into the

(11:23):
Wolfman. Those sequences looked a lot
better than the original Wolfmanmovie.
I mean he looked fine as the Wolfman.
Bela Lugosi just does not do it and his his portrayal of the
monster is really bad but not for the reasons that you might

(11:46):
think. So like, like I said, we'll get
into it in the trivia, but his like arms stretched out like
thing there is a reason for it. But they cut it all out of the
movie, and he had a bunch of andhe had a bunch of dialogue too,
and they cut a lot of that, all of that out.

(12:08):
That's another. Thing did he say anything in
this movie? I think so.
I think he's like grunting like.A little bit, like a little bit,
yeah. It's all makeup and grunting.
Yeah, I guess it's a little morethan that, but that's the other
thing. Like the varying intelligence of
the monster in these movies, like like if we're I think going
off the last movie, he should have like Igor's brain in him.

(12:32):
Yeah. And like should still be a
little bit more like intelligent, but but here's the.
Thing you don't know that in this movie because they they
actually like erased the recordings of his dialogue.
Yeah, it's it's trash. They did him dirty and I, I

(12:54):
don't exactly know why, but yeah, he's the reason for that.
Like Frankenstein walking with his arms out, like this
stereotype. Really.
Yeah, 'cause. Well, think about the previous
movies. He didn't really didn't do that.

(13:14):
He was stiff and he like with lumber, but he he didn't look
like the cartoon version of Frankenstein.
You know, yeah, yeah. Also, I'm really upset because
in the poster for this, like thethe movie poster where they're

(13:36):
fighting looks amazing like that.
It's it's one of the coolest posters.
It's, it's 'cause it's stylized and a little cartoony, but like,
in that like, kind of edgy way, like back in the day.
Yeah, yeah. It's, you know, it's, it's
Frankenstein like hauling back to like really clobber the
Wolfman and like, there's none of that like fluidity or, or

(14:00):
movement in this damn thing. Monster's supposed to be blind
and talking like Igor, yeah. Yeah, and that's that's why his
hands were always outstretched, because he was blind.
But they don't. They don't.
Cover that again because he was blind at the end of the at the
end of Ghost of Frankenstein. That's right.

(14:21):
Yeah, So meanwhile, Bela Lugosi is doing this thing which when
you have context, it makes sensefor him to to walk like that,
but they cut all of the context out so nobody remembers that
he's blind and it's Igor. Yeah, that sucks.

(14:47):
Yeah, but but that's why the monster would know where
Frankenstein or Doctor Frankenstein kept his notebook
in the ruins and all that shit 'cause it was Igor.
Oh, that did not make sense to me.
And now it does. Yeah, like that all makes this a

(15:08):
much better movie and they fucking cut it out for some
reason. Why?
Yeah, this could have been, thiscould have been more like
monster themed drama, which would have made for a much
better movie. When things are explained to you
and you understand the motive behind the weird, you know,
like, what is this guy doing? Yeah, why is Frankenstein acting

(15:30):
this way? Yeah, then it starts to make
sense. But until you know that, it just
looks like crap. I will say Baroness Frankenstein
smoke show. Yeah, it's a giant Teutonic war
goddess. Yeah, absolutely.

(15:56):
I I did like the I like the brief fight we did get at the
end was cool. I just wish it was a little bit
longer and I wish that was like in the middle of the movie as
opposed to that being the climaxof the movie like.
Yeah, how about that non ending?Yeah, it just broke, I guess.
They're dead. The castle's gone.
The end. Let's oh OK blow up the dam

(16:19):
flood the area roll credits. Yeah, really.
Like you don't even, you don't even go like a the end question
mark or. Like we've we've established
that LON Chaney can't be killed.And like the the monster has
survived fires. He survived falling into a
sulfur pit. He survived.

(16:40):
He was frozen. Yeah.
Yeah. Is the water really going to
get? Him drowned.
Get out of here. Is.
Neighborhood fireworks guy stillgoing at it?
Or is he just barking because hecan hear me and can't see me?
That's he's probably barking because he can hear, he can hear
you and not see you. But fireworks guy was going at

(17:01):
it last night. What a doch.
Local fireworks guy fucking sucks.
Yes, he does. See, in my neighborhood, I like
to play a game called fireworks or gunshots.
I too have lived in, not the. Best.
Same here. I've lived in those
neighborhoods. I do not any longer.

(17:23):
The fucked up thing, though, is there's a gun range like a half
a mile away. So I will hear gunshots actually
every now and again. Yeah, but it's not like, OK,
like those are OK gunshots. I can, I can.
Those are supposed to be there. Yeah, I just wish this movie was

(17:44):
at least more fun to watch. Yeah, it didn't even.
Have that going for it. Yeah, it it, it wasn't like I
kept having to like rewind because I kept falling asleep
while I was watching this. Like because it's boring.
Fall asleep. I just.
It just was boring. Yeah, it's boring, there's not
enough monster like stuff in it.It's just it's a fucking mess.

(18:07):
Did not enjoy. It yeah no, they I don't know
they just yeah they just let me down.
They like they finally did one that I'm like, I didn't enjoy
this. Yeah, which I I guess like
you're gonna have that every nowand then, right?
Like nobody can be making awesome movie after awesome
movie and not miss every now andthen.

(18:31):
But it seems like a lot of just dumb studio decisions really
like boned this movie. Yeah, this should have been like
a slam dunk because it's the first time, like these monsters
are meeting up in in like one ofthese movies.
Like, this should have been a huge, like, event.
And it's just a boring, boring movie.
Yeah. This could have had all kinds of

(18:54):
stuff in it, like, all right, yeah.
Bring back like the gypsy mysticism kind of kooky stuff
from the Wolfman. Awesome.
I like that. But actually do something with
it. OK, now we're in.
We're in the ruins of Frankenstein's castle.
OK, Just give me more of the science stuff.
But they, they just drag it out into this like, you know

(19:20):
Wolfman, you know, Larry Talbot is on an adventure.
Kind of thing there's. No adventure to be had.
Yeah. This was the last movie to have
Dwight Frye in it. Yes, he we're getting a little
ahead of ourselves, but he was Renfield in Dracula.

(19:45):
He was not Igor Fritz, he was Fritz in Frankenstein as well.
Yeah, yeah. I'm pretty sure anyway.
A little bit, TJA, little bit. It's almost like we have a
structure man respect the structure.
Respect the structure. I don't know.

(20:09):
It's yeah. Yeah, there's like it's.
Just it doesn't hit like that's really all there is to it.
Like it's set itself up to be really cool and conceptually
it's awesome, but in practice like they they botched it.
Yeah, yeah. To go back what you were just
saying a minute ago, like you have this cool, like magic

(20:32):
versus science, like conflict, Yeah, play into that a little
more like, yeah, of course it doesn't.
You know, it's, it's just, yeah,it's just bad news all.
Right. I think we can.
I think we can throw some ratings on this bad boy you.
Want to throw some ratings? I'm going to be really sad.
I'm going to be really sad giving my rating on this movie.

(20:54):
Same here. Yeah, just just so you know.
I'll I'll leave this one off. It's for sure below the line of
rewatchability for me like I don't I don't need to see this
again like I got everything I'm going to get out of it.
I was going to go with 4-5, but talking about it more like makes

(21:18):
me realize how much I really didnot enjoy this movie.
Like it's it just doesn't justify its existence.
It doesn't get to its full potential.
Like you've got all these cool like chess pieces on the board
and you give us the blandest version of the story you
possibly could have. So I think I'm going to oh,

(21:38):
sorry, I think I'm going to go with a four.
But you were going to say. Yeah, well, I.
Was going to say it's it's like.Less.
Than. Like.
You know, something can be like greater than the sum of its
parts, and this just is not. It's got all these great parts
and awesome elements of of things that you can do.

(22:01):
In this whole. Universe and they just like just
give us dog shit with it. So yeah, it's got to be.
I mean like. I've I've been teetering on
44.5. I think we're going to go 4.5.
Because there are. Things in this that I do.

(22:21):
Like, you know, like I liked thetransformation scenes better in
this than the original Wolfman. I like, you know, the casting
was cool, but like, but they also do the the the thing again
where they're in a like Germaniccountry populated by dudes from

(22:46):
Chicago. Yeah.
And I missed the name of the country, too.
It was different, I think, than what, you know, like what
they've been using previously. Vesalia.
Or something. I think that's it, yeah.
Vesalia Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because they didn't want to use
Germany because, you know, it was the early 40s.
It was the Germans, yeah. You wolf shit, not dog shit.

(23:12):
Yeah, you had chocolate and peanut butter, and when you put
them together, instead of getting a Reese's Peanut Butter
Cup, you get a giant ball of shit.
Yeah, yeah. It's like somebody.
Ate chocolate and peanut butter and then this is.
Like they used. It and now you have it.
Yeah, Vasaria, that's disappointing.

(23:36):
Yeah. But anyway, you you.
Want to move on to trivia? Yes, let us.
Move on to some trivia. Oh yeah, of course that's set
down or off. Boy, he's.

(24:01):
He's really shitty tonight, huh?Yeah, he's been.
In the mood all day. All right, let's move on to
trivia and this debacle of a movie.
Several photos exist showing thedeleted scenes, the fireside

(24:21):
chat between the monster and Talbot beneath the icy catacombs
of the castle, for instance, where Talbot and the audience
learned that the monster is still blind.
This has been confirmed by several sources, including
screenwriter Kurt Seyad. Mac.
That's a weird name. In the mid 80s a search was made

(24:42):
through the Universal Studio vaults for a print or a negative
of the cut pre release version. As of this date, it has not yet
been found. It's a bummer because.
It there could possibly be a really good movie buried like in
this somewhere they cut the goodstuff.
Out, yeah. Like.

(25:03):
You hate that shit, man, because, like, COD Mac.
Thank you, TJ. Look, we've, we've talked about
movies like this before where like, the the studio just
chopped the shit out of it. And then, like, all the stuff
they cut is the stuff that seemsinteresting.
Yeah, Let's see here when the monster's dialogue was deleted.

(25:28):
See alternate versions. Also removed were any references
to the monster being blind, a side effect of Igor's brain
being implanted in the monster at the end of Ghost of
Frankenstein from 1942. As a result, Bella will go see's
sleepwalker like lumbering gate with arms outstretched is not
explained and became a subject of ridicule.

(25:49):
It also established the Frankenstein monster walk
stereotype. See, that's another thing like.
Bela Lugosi. Was not doing a bad
Frankenstein. No, he was playing.
The character like if you have all.
The information, he was fine, yeah, but like I I just don't

(26:11):
understand that I. Don't understand that.
Decision, yeah. Yeah.
It just doesn't make sense. Yeah.
Let's see here. This film marks the first time
that 2 Universal Studio Classicsmonsters appear on screen
together. So this should have been like a
historic moment and then insteadthey turned it into just crap.

(26:33):
Should have been a. Slam dunk like they like.
Could not have been. Easier to to get really write an
awesome movie out of these two characters.
But yeah. I mean they they nail it.
Later, I guess, but yeah. The inappropriate song.
Prompt. To song.
Yeah, the musical. Number, I forgot about that.

(26:55):
And we got a hydrate also, yeah.Like, apparently Chico.
Marx shows up to sing it. LON Chaney, Junior, Jesus
Christ. You know what, actually?
Pissed me off about that is. OK.
So maybe 10 minutes earlier in the movie, The innkeeper

(27:21):
bartender guy is walking throughthe streets carrying that dead
girl. And then he's at the.
Wine fast going ha ha ha ha. Ha, everything's so great.
Yeah. Yeah, it looks like we fucking
stumbled into the Great Escapes,like Oktoberfest, like in the
middle of this monster movie. Yeah.
But again, like you, you need consistency.

(27:43):
So OK, is this guy terribly broken up and seeking revenge
for the death of this woman who they don't explain she either
just works for him? Is his daughter what We don't
know. He's carrying.
Her through town like obviously distraught because her neck has

(28:04):
been ripped open. And then?
He's like happy go lucky at the wine fest.
Yeah. Oh.
Fuck it, it's wine fest. It's only once a year so yeah,
not going to let this ruin it for me.
Yeah, oops, the. The the fucking.

(28:25):
The mixer. The mixer.
The mixer. From.
Step Brothers. Oh, the Catalina wine mixer.
The Catalina. Wine mixer?
Yeah, the fucking. Catalina.
Wine. Mixer the Viseria.
Wine mixer. Yeah, yeah, man.

(28:47):
That's got to be a. Sticker.
The. Motherfucking Viseria wine
mixer. Hey, boots, Boots what's?
Going on man this I also thoughtof this one because fucking LON

(29:07):
Chaney is like. He's just like a.
Cowboy in this movie, basically he's wearing a cowboy hat.
He's driving a coach like. So but he's also.
Incredibly emo and sad the wholetime.
So I just wrote down. Like I texted myself this note
Sad cowboy werewolf which also now has to be a sticker.

(29:29):
Yes, yes it does. Let's see here.
The film was shot during World War 2 amid A notorious anti
German public campaign by the United States government.
Screenwriter Kurt, However, you're supposed to say that a

(29:50):
German Jew himself, who had fledhis country after hearing
anti-Semitic speeches there in 1937, deliberately changed the
location of Frankenstein's castle from Germany to the
fictional Visaria. The name.
Translate the loose loosely to the water place in German,
obviously correlating to the dam, waterfall and hydroelectric

(30:12):
turbine that are integral to thefilm.
Which they're not. Integral to the film, they're
integral. To the botched bullshit ending
at the end. They're integral.
To your lazy fucking ending. Yeah, it's Oh my God, I think
that's what pisses me off the most.
It was just so lazy. It's his.

(30:32):
Writing and he was like, I've got good ideas, I've got great
ideas and the and the studio waslike, fuck your ideas, we're
changing this. And he was like, fuck it, I
don't care anymore. More likely, he just.
Ran out of cocaine or was this pre cocaine?
In Hollywood, this would have been.
Probably like morphine, maybe like got shot like, you know, in
the early parts of the world, you know, World War 2 got a few

(30:55):
fucking Hollywood was. Hollywood was big on opiates
until probably the 50s and then cocaine took over.
Yeah. Like fuck, I had something that
I forgot. Cocaine.
Morphine gone. No.

(31:18):
Yeah, boy. May.
Yeah, so the dialogue spoken by the monster in the film was
edited out before the film's release.
His dialogue in the film spoke of his desire to control the
world, but Universal executives feared that World War 2

(31:40):
audiences would find it too close to Adolf Hitler's own
rhetoric. It's a goddamn.
Monster of the movie like. Seems to make.
Sense to me to leave that in, even if it wasn't intentional,
right? Like it just like that because
that's the ending of Ghost of Frankenstein.

(32:02):
Like that's what he was trying to do was take over the world
through the body of the Frankenstein's monster.
And that should carry through into this movie regardless of
like what's going on in the realworld.
But again, like it could have been.
It could have still. Been relevant.
But they could have like. Watered it down a little bit,

(32:23):
you know, and like, we were talking about the movie last
week where like, the message is too on the nose, OK.
And so if you want this to be like maybe a little bit of
social commentary about the times, you can keep that.
But it doesn't have to. Be like the main focus of the
movie. Yeah, it doesn't have to hit.
You over the head with it? Yeah, Yeah, good question.

(32:47):
TJII believe it was at the end of the first movie because it's
when like all the townspeople storm like the windmill.
Find out that Frankenstein made the monster it it's just known
somewhere between bride and Sun.I thought they found.
Out in the first one, that's what I.
Thought at the end of the first one they found out.

(33:12):
That would make sense, no? Because a bunch of.
People stormed the windmill. They stormed the windmill.
Because the monster was in it. They chased the.
Monster through town they actually saved.
Frankenstein. You're right, huh?
Yeah. That is a solid question.

(33:34):
I don't. Remember it's it's been a little
too long since I've seen it. It must have.
Been between bride and then Yeah, son it's.
A spin off movie that was. Lost to the anal time.
Anal. Of time.
Oh yeah. All right.

(33:55):
Couple of more trivia facts hereand then we'll get out of here.
The matte painting of the town of Viseria is lifted from
Universal's My Little Chickadee from 1940.
OK, that's. Recycling at its best, man, I
guess because those matte paintings are, well, they should
be expensive. Back in the 40s they were

(34:17):
probably like, I'll give you $5 and keep you on contract.
Here's a sandwich. Yeah, do you like ham?
And then there's our final trivia fact.
This is the only film in which the monster kills, no?
1 Yeah, yeah, that is true. Yeah, the body count.

(34:43):
Was actually kind of low in this1A.
Lot. Of things have.
Been lost in there. Lot of.
Watches. Lot of watches.
Rings. Rings.
Watches. Dignity.

(35:10):
I saw a requiem for a dream. I know what happens back there.
Gross. It's not a good movie.
People just like it because it'sshocking.
And I will I. Will stand by that exactly.
All right, let us move. On to the trivia.

(35:33):
No, no, that's. Not it.
Let us move. On to 1 star reviews.
Oh, that's right. Shit, do we have a sound?
Effects. It's not, not yet.
It's not a new segment anymore, yeah.
There's no sound effects. For it yet?
Yeah, I've had a lot of mirth. Arthur Sing a.
Jingle Dance monkey. And would I do this?
All the time. Sing songs with my kid.

(35:54):
I can't think of anything right now.
Yep. Terrible.
That's that's fine. We only have one one star review
for this movie. It's shocking because this.
Movie sucks. Is it 1 star?
Shitty though I don't think it'sone star shitty NO87.
Star Good. Is that what it got?

(36:14):
It's got a 646.9. 6 four, yeah. 28.4%, the largest percentile
said that it no. That's not true.
That's not true. All right, here we go.
This is entitled Greed Inspired Universal Time Waster, which

(36:36):
sounds like a yeah that sounds like a super villain like
weapon. Sad to see.
The Larry Talbot character resurrected in such a ridiculous
fashion. This gets Frankenstein Meets the
Wolfman off to a bad start, although the production
certainly looks better, more expensive than the Wolfman.

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Patrick Knowles returns, but in a different role, which leads to
some confusion. You cannot go by this actor,
play this role in any of these because it's a revolving door of
like, I'm going to play this character and then the next
movie I'm still going to be in it, but totally different
character. Yeah, that's like, not.
Realizing LON Chaney isn't Frankenstein in this movie.

(37:18):
Yeah. Let's see here.
Maria Ospenskaya is also back asthe gravestly serious gypsy,
though she hasn't much to do Poor LON Chaney Junior has to

(37:39):
sweat this whole thing out again, and although the
transformation scenes are much better this time, the flimsy
plot is a House of Cards leadingup to the battle between the
monsters. The film makers waste time on
Horry details and fancy talk. And what about Bela Lugosi as
the Frankenstein monster ish calling Ed Wood?

(38:02):
I. Agree with most of that, except
I didn't see one whore in this whole movie.
That was your take away. You heard that?
I heard Horry. Yeah.
Yeah. I don't know, Baroness.
Frankenstein, hey. You keep her name out your
mouth. That is a classy giant Amazonian
blonde. I don't know she's got.

(38:24):
One of those like things on her face, She's not into it.
Yeah. The Cindy Crawford thing.
Looks like a bug. House of Cards had Kevin Spacey
as the monster. No no no.
Reality had Kevin Spacey as the monster.

(38:49):
Sexual. Predation Laws had Kevin Spacey
as the monster. That got so weird.
When he was like, he was cuttinglike wrestler promos as that
character. Yeah, it's.
Like holy shit. Dude, it's.
Like when it's like Donner fucking.
Wrap up. It's like when Warren Beatty

(39:11):
will pop up as Dick Tracy like every couple of years just to
keep the rights as Dick Tracy. Like to keep the rights of the
movie, Yeah. What the fuck?
What, what can you possibly do with the rights to that movie
now? Yeah, like, like.
Nobody's looking for a Dick Tracy movie with a 95 year old
Dick Tracy Warren. Like, relax.

(39:33):
Got to be completely. Honest, nobody's looking for a
Dick Tracy movie. If they made it cool, old people
are. Yeah, I would.
Say no. Yeah, if they made it like a.
Sin City type of like detective noir type of thing.
Like that'd be fucking cool. That would be.
You know who's going to watch that?
Just us 40 year old dudes, yeah.Yeah, it'd be like a bunch of

(39:56):
fucking just yeah, weird dudes sitting in the theater.
I remember that movie. Instead of like.
I remember this comic or like syndicated TV shorts thing did.
You ever watch those? They used to show them on like
fucking TCM, like the old schoolDick Tracy stuff, yeah.
Yeah, yeah. All right.

(40:20):
Now we can move on to the betterknown as I know.
You. I know you.
I knew I knew you. I knew I knew you.
We. Will start off with the director
as we always do. Let me get on to the right tab

(40:40):
so I can actually do this properly.
Roy, William Neil. There really.
Isn't much else like worth of, you know, note that he directed.
This is probably the biggest movie that he did.
He did a lot of Sherlock Holmes movies.
It looks like Sherlock Holmes prelude to murder, Sherlock

(41:02):
Holmes, the woman in green, the spider woman I know is a
Sherlock Holmes movie. Sherlock Holmes faces death.
So that's like where he kind of fucking Sherlock Holmes faces.
Of death, Sherlock. Holmes Faces of death.
Yeah. Sherlock just stayed home one
night, like, rented the movie like again, shut up.
Some opium. Fucking yeah.

(41:23):
He's like. I swear to God, it's real.
All of it's real. Yeah, the dude ate monkey.
Brains, man, I saw it. And yeah, not really anything
else like evening. If I'm not pulling any names out
of here, I'm sure nobody else isgoing to.
So we're just going to move on. We're going to do that a lot in

(41:45):
these because I, as much as I love watching these old, like,
classic horror movies, I fuckinghate doing the better known as
because every one of these motherfuckers has like 300
credits under their fucking name.
Yeah. Because they were all.
Like, contracted through Universal Studios.
So they were making a movie a week?

(42:08):
Yeah, basically. Up next, LON Chaney junior, who
we have talked about before so we don't need to go too far in
depth, but he is of course knownfor being the wolf man and for
being the son of LON Chaney Senior.
The man of 1000 faces most. Probably most notably Phantom of

(42:29):
the Opera, Yes. Yeah, I think that's.
Probably his like #1. We mentioned that he shows up in
an episode of The Monkees, I think as a werewolf if I'm not
mistaken. Probably.
Yeah, and Westerns also Rawhide,also known for being a.

(42:51):
Raging drunkard. Yes, that.
Too. I think I said this.
He's got the. He's got the sickest profile
picture on IMDb though. Like it's it's.
It's pretty choice and it's pretty dope.
He. Looks insane, yeah.
I think I said this. When we watched Ghost of

(43:13):
Frankenstein, like he didn't so much look like Frankenstein so
much as he looked like a gym coach wearing a Frankenstein
costume. Yeah, yeah.
That's that's pretty accurate. The Ghost of the Ghost of
Frankenstein makeup looked like a Frankenstein costume.

(43:35):
Yeah, he was so shitty. Up next, Ilana Massey.
She was Baroness Elsa Frankenstein.
Yeah, fucking step on me. Donner agrees, aside from.

(44:01):
This. Not really much else.
Hey buddy. Step on me.
Essentially a sticker. Yeah, really nothing else.
I think I just saved her so I can make that joke.
That's what she's famous. For And that's enough for me,

(44:22):
God damn it. All right, moving.
On Patrick Knowles was in this movie, He was Doctor Beyoncé's
grandfather, Yeah. Wait, but that's.
Actually possible, yeah. He liked.

(44:44):
Beyoncé's grandma and he definitely put a ring on it,
yeah. He.
Was in the first Wolfman movie. He was Doctor Frank Mannering in
this movie. In the Wolfman, he's Frank
Andrews, so yeah. I guess he can only.
Respond to the name Frank. It'd be terrible from Naked Gun.

(45:07):
Yeah. Which I watched today, the first
one. Because you knew you needed to
go down a Naked Gun rabbit hole today, Cuban.
No Dutch, Irish. My father was from Wales
actually. God.

(45:36):
Aside from those movies, he there's a fucking reason I saved
him. Hold on.
He was in the adventures. Of Robin Hood 1938, the one with
Errol Glenn. He was Will Scarlett.
Yeah, in the hell yeah, but I'veseen those in a long.

(45:56):
Long, long time. But yeah, I've.
I have fond memories of watchingthose movies.
Yeah, like. My, when I was younger, like, my
godfather always made it a pointto like, sit down, like whenever
we came to visit, like we'd sit down and watch a movie.
Like on AMC. Like, this is when they still
showed, like, old movies. Yeah.
When AMC was basically TMC now. Yeah, and.

(46:17):
Like, I think that was one of them.
Yeah, TCM, sorry. And that was one of the ones we
watched. He was in the original.
Maverick TV series for two episodes.
Like everybody. In this, there was a lot of
Westerns wagon train. I think we're going to move on

(46:38):
from there. Yeah, let's do that.
Up next we have Lionel Atwill, who we have also talked about
before he was, he was Inspector Crow in the Son of Frankenstein
movie. He's the guy with the weird,
like, wooden arm. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

(47:00):
The guy who's in a comedy movie while everybody else is in a
monster drama. Yep.
Well, yeah, yeah, he, we've talked about him before, so we
won't go into him too much, but he is in a bunch of these
Universal horror Movies, House of Dracula, House of
Frankenstein. He was in the Captain America,

(47:23):
like the 40s version. Probably like the serials, I'm
going to say. Oh yeah, Sherlock Holmes.
And the secret weapon? He's Doctor Theodore Bomer and
the Ghost of Frankenstein. Anything.
Else worth mentioning, Charlie Chan in Panama, which I'm again

(47:43):
sure was done with all of the, you know, racial sensitivity
that 1939 could muster. It was the film.
Equivalent of doing this, you know?
Yeah, pulling. Your eyes just pulling your.
Eyes back, you know. Buck teeth.
Very Mickey Rourke of you. I don't think anybody knew.

(48:10):
What? I don't know.
Think anybody knew what race Mickey Rourke was for like from
now up to like what, 10 years ago?
He's like completely changed himself three times over and now
he's an. Elderly white woman somehow
like. Yeah, I.
Haven't seen recent photos, I'm very interested.

(48:31):
Oh, you haven't? Seen him?
Yeah. I just, I just saw a meme
yesterday that said like Steven Tyler and Mickey Rourke with
Vicki, they look like they couldbe like a lesbian couple that
owns an antique shop in Portland.
His. Hair is so fucking weird now.
Like it's got to be a wig, I think, because.

(48:53):
It's like chunks. Just like start in the front and
like it doesn't look like it grows there, it just exists
there. We'll have like a weird.
Like braid or like strand of yarn every now and again.
All right, Anything else from Lionel Atwell?

(49:14):
I don't believe so. We're going to move on.
Up next, Bella Lugosi we have also talked about before
multiple times. He is, of course known for being
Dracula and quite the fan of Smack in his later years.
Yeah. And Bauhaus won't stop telling

(49:34):
me that he is dead. Yeah, this.
We got to be reminded every now and again, I guess.
Yeah, every now and. Then he.
Was of course also in Plan 9 from outer space.
And bride of. The Monster 2 Ed Wood movies and
Glen or Glenda also. That's right.
Yeah, he was in. I think starting at Glen Glen or

(49:55):
Glenda. He was in.
Everything that Ed Wood put out until Bella died, probably.
Yeah. I think so.
Glenda bride of. The Monster and then Plan 9.
I don't know if The Black Sleep is an Ed Ed Wood movie.
Probably. Not, No, it was not.

(50:20):
All right. Yeah.
I mean, he's Bela Lugosi. If you're watching us, you know
who Bela Lugosi is. I would hope so.
Yeah. So we're going to move onward.
Maria Osmanskaya. She, of course, was the old
Gypsy woman reprising the role she had in the first Wolfman

(50:43):
movie. Maleva.
Let's see. Freaking hard.
Hard GS, man. Yeah, we're.
Just racist as fuck. Anything else worth mentioning?
Probably not. It helps at all on the racist

(51:07):
front. I did actually mean Mickey
Rooney, not Michael Rourke. Yes, Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, I agree. I also.
Mix up white people, yeah. Because they all look.
Alike. They all look alike.
I'm sorry. You also meant Mickey Rourke,
not Michael Rourke. Now you're mixing up Michael
Rooker. Oh my God.
Yeah, I'm blending these Mr. Names have got me.

(51:32):
Mickey Rourke. Michael Rooker and Mickey Rooney
walk into a bar. My headache clothes.
Dwight, we're getting the DwightFrye, TJ really fucking LAX,
man. Dude.
Lord. Let's talk about time.
Yeah, Dennis. Hoey first, I.
Mean. Jesus Christ, we talked about
Dwight Fry twice now. Yeah, yeah.

(51:55):
They said Hori, Yeah, Hori, Hori, whatever.
Who were they got there? Yeah.
This dude played Inspector Lestrade in a lot of Sherlock
Holmes movies. Probably.
The ones that Director directed?I'm going to guess so.
It's a fine bet. Yeah.

(52:23):
There are a lot of fucking. He was in She Wolf of London in
1946, Tarzan and the Leopard Woman also in 1946.
He's a national. Velvet 1944 The spider Woman.
He plays the Strat in that Sherlock Holmes and the Faces of
Death. Of course he plays Lestrade in

(52:45):
that Sherlock Holmes and the secret Weapon.
Anything else worth mentioning? Chu Chin Chow.
It was a movie from. 1934. It's probably very culturally
sensitive. Yeah, yeah.

(53:08):
All right, TJ, you can, you know, relax your butt hole.
Here we go. Dwight Fry is up next.
We have talked about him before.He was Fritz and Frankenstein.
He is Carl and the bride of Frankenstein.
He is Renfield and Dracula. He is Wilmer Cooke in The

(53:29):
Maltese Falcon, and he was Rudy,and he was he.
Was. So good as Renfield.
Yeah, it's unbelievable. Unbelievable.
Was really. Good.
He was a. Villager in the Ghost of
Frankenstein that was uncredited.

(53:50):
The blonde from Singapore. Kind of guess she's either not
really from Singapore or not really a blonde.
Not impossible, yeah, just. Improvable.
Yeah, yeah. Very improbable.
This has got to be our most racist episode.
Yeah. God, I don't like that sound

(54:12):
bite. The implication alone, She's
going to start. Talking like Boss Hog for the
rest of the episode. I mean, I'm a bigger.
Fan of Buford D Justice, But youdo.

(54:32):
You he was. A reporter also credited in The
Invisible Man. And we're going to move.
On from there, yes, boots. You.
Absolutely Ken clip Chris sayingthat, however.
And I will clarify, I spoke on our behalf that we prefer you to

(54:54):
it's gonna. Happen.
Eventually, but. Look, just because.
This is our most racist episode.Doesn't mean that all of our
episodes aren't racist. Hello, Wash.
Anyway. Harry Stubbs is in this movie.

(55:17):
Oh, thank God. You didn't say the name Harry
Stumps. I would have murdered you.
Harry. Stumps.
I mean, you've got to say that name at least once.
It could be. Worse, it could be Harry Stumps.
Guno is like Harry Stumps. His name is.
Guno GUNO this. Bitch is.

(55:40):
Fucking guno stunk. He was.
Also Inspector Bird in The Invisible Man.
Hey Donner. Reverend Norman in The Wolf Man.

(56:01):
Also, he's in the Mummy's Hand as a bartender.
Invisible. Man returns.
That you would love to see. What else is in the mummy's
hand? London by night, 1937.

(56:22):
And I think that's real. You saw?
Yeah, we mentioned the InvisibleMan.
We're going to move. Well, we're going to, yeah, move
on. I thought that was good.
It's not. It's not gross.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I believe it was.
Christina Aguilera, who said it's about time for my arrival.

(56:50):
Oh, Christ. God damn it.
I miss having all of us. This show just gets extra weird.
Yeah. My commentary doesn't.
Help you? Me No.
It does. It does.
I. Should probably tell you this
guy's name before I start rattling off his credits.
His name is Jeff Corey. He was in some pretty big

(57:17):
movies. Some of the lesser big things he
was in was an episode of the series Charmed in 2000.
Also an episode of the series Brimstone in 1998.
Perversions of Science 1997 from95 through 97.
He was the voice of Silverman inthe Spider Man animated series

(57:39):
Fox. He was like an ancient.
Like mafia boss and like the spider man lore?
See. He was in the Beauty and the
Beast TV series for an episode with Ron Perlman.
He's a bird on a wire, also in 1990 with Mel Gibson and Goldie

(58:02):
Hawn. Now we're bringing in Mel
Gibson. This show's just getting more
and more racist. Oh God.
Off the rails, yeah. He was just don't say anything
about a. Pack of yeah.
They're getting in the Jacuzzi. He was in the 80s War of the

(58:27):
Worlds TV series which wasn't good but I did watch it.
I don't. Think I've seen a single War of
the Worlds movie adaptation. Yeah, I remember.
Yeah, I've ever like, I saw the 40s one when I was a kid, so I
was like really into the TV show.
He's in Conan the Destroyer in 1984.

(58:48):
He's the grand vizier. That the fucking like gorilla
wizard who kidnaps the girl? I don't.
Remember. Yeah.
I think he's the dude that like pony and has to kill by like
breaking the mirrors. Maybe I don't.
Know. Aside.

(59:11):
From Pony and the Destroyer. It shows.
Up in things Fantasy Island I I thought there was something else
he's in Oh God, 1977 with Yeah, I thought you.

(59:31):
Recognized the movie and it was that bad.
No, no, no. I'm just trying to sell it.
He's in three episodes of the short lived Richard Pryor Show.
That was 1977 as well. Bionic Woman A.
Lot of 70s. TV Pojack McLeod Starscream
Hutch $6 million man Streets of San Francisco is.

(01:00:00):
There a fucking. Reason I saved the season 2
episodes at night Gallery. I mean 'cause.
He's in rad shit. Yeah, I think.
There's like one more. Oh, he's in True Grit.
Sorry, 1969. Oh hell yeah.
And sorry. Also 1969, he's in Butch Cassidy
and the Sundance Kid. Oh, nice.

(01:00:20):
And then? Like the usual stuff, Gunsmoke,
Wild, Wild West and last but notleast, Cyril Dellavante is in
this movie. He's one of the grave robbers in
the beginning. Aside from this, he is in

(01:00:40):
Soylent Brain in 1973. The sci-fi classic also shows up
in an episode of Night Gallery to Bedknobs and Broomsticks in
1971. Movie about fighting Nazis with
magic. Yeah.
Hey, I don't know if. You knew this.

(01:01:01):
But. It's interesting fact about
Soylent Green is that it's people.
It is. Yeah, made.
Of people, Yeah, yeah. Spoiler.
Alert some of us haven't found out.
Oh, sorry. Should read the ingredients
list. It's like #1 it's right on
there, people. Paprika, it's in.

(01:01:22):
No. There's no way that shit sees.
Well, the white people. Version is seasoned, of course
not, right? Yeah.
It's got it's. Got ketchup on it but be born.
It's a little spicy. You get mayonnaise.
Or ketchup if you're into spicy.Cumin.
What the fuck is cumin? Whoa.

(01:01:47):
Fun fact. It's the main ingredient, Taco
seasoning. That is going to do.
It for the better known as and we can move on to the.
Crapshoot I. Saw the new Jurassic Park when
it came out Thursday night. Thursday night it looks fun.

(01:02:11):
Yeah, it was. Fun.
It's a fun, enjoyable. I mean, it's a fucking movie
with dinosaurs going crazy and killing people.
Like that's fun. It seems a lot like a like a
rehash of the first movie with acouple of like things from the
book thrown in like the T, like the like the raft scene from the
book as part of this movie. Have you read the book?

(01:02:32):
Yeah, I read it like in. The fucking 90s.
So I barely remember any of it, but it was, it was entertaining,
It was all right. You know it.
It's a low bar to clear with those Jurassic Park movies
because they're not great past the first one.
It's fair, Fair. Assessment, yeah, although I did

(01:02:53):
like, I did like the first of the newer ones, yeah, Jurassic.
World's pretty good Jurassic. World.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it was, you know, nice
seeing in a movie like that, like in a big theater with a
bunch of people. That was kind of cool.
Like, it's always good to see a movie like that there.
Oh T JS going to see Superman tomorrow.

(01:03:13):
Oh nice, I'm going Thursday. Yeah, I.
Typically don't like care about Superman, but that looks good,
yeah. I cannot wait for Superman.
I just sorry. Go.
Ahead I Yeah, yeah, I know that they're making jokes about it,
and there's jokes in the movie, but Guy Gardner's bowl cut

(01:03:39):
should have been left out of this movie.
Because it. Takes anything, anything you
might find serious about that character and throws it right
out the window, but there is nothing.
Serious about that character though, like he's just a
douchebag. Right.
But he's a Green Lantern, so he's got crazy amounts of power.
Like he's like, just like. You didn't.

(01:04:04):
Need to go that far, You know what I mean, I guess, Nathan.
Fillion was the one who, like, insisted that he have the bowl
cut. Oh.
Really. God.
Damn it. Like if they were making.
If they were making like a less serious kind of movie, then
yeah, you know, like I, I can see that, you know, something

(01:04:24):
along the lines more like a Deadpool movie.
Yeah, But like you're trying to do like the the Superman thing
where he's, you know, like you've got this like ultimate
righteous guy in that like it's a very serious story all the
time. And then the most atrocious
comic book haircut ever. It's like Guy.

(01:04:50):
Gardner and Doctor Octopus, like, right in, you know, neck
and neck, yeah. Oh, like TJ, don't get me wrong.
Like, I love Nathan Fillion, andI think he's probably going to
do a great job as the character that just looks too ridiculous
to take seriously at any point. But hopefully.

(01:05:15):
They it overshadows the haircut it's.
It's entirely, it's not going tobe in this movie, but like with,
you know, James Gunn, like helming the DCU at this point,
like it's entirely possible we can get the Batman knocking out
Guy Gardner in one punch seen ina movie.
Like I would fucking kill to seethat.

(01:05:37):
Yeah, one punch his haircut. Will be better than Ryan
Reynolds gossip I started. Reading a pretty rad fucking
comic series this week. Yeah, I've been meaning to get

(01:06:01):
my I keep seeing it on Instagramand I've never been able to get
my hands on it. I think you can get like the
first three or it's issues like 0 through 3 I got for free on
the company's website and then Ibought four and five.
It's called Mark Spears Monsters.
I was actually going to bring out issues 4:00 and 5:00 to have
it on the table and I forgot. It's pretty fucking cool.

(01:06:26):
It's all like classic monsters. So you have like Dracula,
Creature from a Black Lagoon, Frankenstein, The Wolfman, The
Mummy. It's set in the 80s.
So it's almost kind. Of like an adult, like monster
squad type of movie. Like there isn't like a monster
squad though, but like it's thatsame type of vibe, you know, 80s
like and you know classic monsters.

(01:06:49):
It's all painted so it looks fucking beautiful.
It, you know, let's the monstersjust be vicious, bloodthirsty
monsters. Like doesn't sugarcoat them,
doesn't make them like cartoony.It's really good.
You know, my only criticism I would say is that it is a.

(01:07:09):
Little. All over the yard, there's so
much shit going on that like the, like the the like the dude
who's creating it. Mark Spears really should have
just been like, OK, like we can fucking maybe hold this off for
a little while or like doesn't need this storyline to it
because you have like monsters. You have like there's like this

(01:07:34):
like weird eye patch, like Nazi lady going around doing things.
There's like a like a like a, a weird like Asian ninja lady.
Like like the like one of the main characters is this dude the
Slayer, which is pretty cool, who's basically just he's like
this guy, he's like legendary. His job is just go around

(01:07:56):
killing these monsters, like allthese like, you know, legendary
universal monsters. You think they're?
They're sprinkling in too many through lines before they.
Yeah, just like. There's like a like a side plot
with like kids and like, and it's just like, there's too much
going on. Like there's government stuff
going on. There's like things with the
kids going on. There's things with the monsters

(01:08:17):
going on. There's like flashbacks to like,
you know, things in the 1800s, like slow up just a little bit.
You have a lot of awesome stuff,like just fucking doled it out
because it like at the same timeall the shit's going on, but
like nothing is happening much story wise.
Yeah, because there's just we'rejumping from all over from place

(01:08:39):
to place. It's like if you just focused on
like a cohesive story a little more like it would be perfect.
But I as it is right now, I fucking, I love it.
Would highly recommend checking it out.
Sick. Yeah.
TJ seems to think it's awesome too, so yeah.
Yeah, they're definitely. Working towards something, but
it's just like we're getting allof this shut, like shit at once.

(01:09:00):
But it is, it is. It's so, it's so good.
It's like I keep saying, I just want like somebody to use these
characters, like to make them scary again, make them like
monsters again. And like, this is what they're
doing in this. Yeah.
Yeah, that's why that. That.
Now what studio was doing the? The Universal.

(01:09:23):
Monsters Comics. Oh.
Oh, is it dynamite or is it image?
I think it's image, Yeah. I just got the newest mummy.
It's image. Yeah, it is image.

(01:09:44):
Yeah, the Slayer does apparentlysuck at his job.
But I think it is a. Cool character because he's
like, you don't know anything about him because he always has
a mask on. Like the the costume is kind of
cool. He like he's at, he basically
came out of retirement because like something happened like a,
like a, a girl he knows got killed or something.

(01:10:06):
We don't really know yet, but it's, I like where it's going.
I I I like the. He's like the he's the.
Charles Bronson of Monster Slayers.
Kind of pretty much. Yeah, yeah.
But it's cool. I'm I'm digging it.
I'm digging really really digging it.
Yeah, I. Haven't really taken in too much
media this this week I. Kind of really busy.

(01:10:31):
But like, super fun weekend for the 4th.
Nice. Yeah, We took the kids to the
the park in one of the state parks and they they shoot
fireworks off like real close tothe park.
So it's like extra exciting. Yeah.
So we did that and I got in a foot race with my brother-in-law

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and he fell down and broke his collarbone.
Yeah, I won the foot race. But at what cost, you know?
Yeah, he'll be fine. But then Saturday we we took the
kids to Six Flags New England. And it was like a.

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Really, really nice day for it 'cause it was like it was warm,
but it wasn't like excruciatingly hot out like it
was today or Sunday. Sunday was fucking brutal, Yeah.
But that was. Rad like we spent like. 7 1/2.
Hours just walking around that park, and there's still more

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stuff for us to do when we go back, all right?
Yeah, I don't know if you. Guys have been to Six Flags New
England I. Honestly, I think I may have.
Yeah. Yeah.
They brought us because I think they changed their name at some
point, like in the early 2000s. Yeah, yes.
So I have been there because like, they took us there in high

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school on our junior bus trip maybe.
They just brought. Us all to Riverside for the day.
Donna was just going to go nuts.And they had, I remember.
They had a cool like thing whereit was like one of those like.
Well, like, yeah, there's. Like a row of like tennis ball
cannons, like against this like big pool of water.

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And then in the water was a submarine that fired cannon, you
know, tennis balls back. And like, if you wanted to, you
could go in the submarine and, like, be the person who fires
the balls, or you could fire theballs at the submarine.
Yeah. It was really awesome.
Yeah. TJ the one in Springfield, not
Lake George. That's that's.
Great escape. Yeah.
Yeah, it's well. Yeah, Six Flags owns that now.

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So it's it's Six Flags Great Escape, but the one in
Springfield is 6 Flags to England, which is like.
At. Least twice the amount of park.
It's really fun. Yeah, I remember being small.
So they must have expanded. It was like. 30 years ago I was
there so I'm sure they've expanded yeah the only.

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Time I've been is when they're opening a new roller coaster
that was the tallest and fastestin the world.
Only time I've. Been.
There was this one. Ride that we kept going on.
It was like the Viking ship, butinstead of like swinging on a
pendulum, it was like 4 posts. So you were just swinging like
forward and like up and around instead of like side to side.

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And it was run by this Mexican dude with a really heavy accent.
So all day we were just laughingevery time we heard.
Thank you for running the Sling chat.
Oh, it's. Great, every almost every ride
operator there has some sort of accent.
Like and. They're all over the place

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there. There was like Eastern European
sounding ones, you know, Hispanic accents.
It was all of it was crazy. But that was really fun.
I I really like the amount of DCstuff they have there.
All right? Because they have one section
and it's just like Gotham City and then another section, which

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is like the rest of DC. Really.
Yeah, That's pretty cool. That's.
Yeah, that's like where they have the Superman ride, which is
like been. Voted.
Like #1 steel roller coaster like.
I don't know 5. Or six times.
But yeah, it was it. Was good, like I liked it.

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I got on one ride not knowing what it was.
Turned out to be a spinny ride and spinny rides are not good
for me. Your boy.
Your boy has a jacked up equilibrium and is not good.
Is not. Good.
Pretty much, yeah. Do this there.

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Are like things you see in your life that are going to like
stick in your head till the day you die.
And one of these things. For me, it's going to make me
laugh like I could be dying of the worst, like injury or
disease, and if I think of this on my deathbed, I am going to
laugh. This has got to.
Be like sometime in the mid 80s.So I'm probably between like. 6

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and 10. Years old at the time and I
think like we were waiting like for my mom and my aunt, my
grandma. It was like me and my dad.
I even think this might have been for my kindergarten
graduation. This is how long ago this was
Jesus Christ. We were sitting on a.
Bench outside of Chipper's mystery ride hell.

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Yeah, right. But anybody doesn't.
Rambler in the. Dome the best ride.
Ever what Chipper's mystery ridewas, it was the Scrambler
Magical mystery. Ride Yeah, it was the.
Scrambler inside of a Dome wherethey were like turn the lights
out and like like put on strobe lights and like all kinds of
music and shit. Yeah, so my.

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Dad and I are sitting there waiting for my family, the rest
of my family to come out and again, this is like the 80s.
So like this punk dude fucking we just like we're sitting there
fucking door to the thing just boom busts open right?
This fucking punk dude in a leather jacket like stumbles out
I shit you not turns green, barfs his fucking brains out

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right in the. See but the.
Scrambler is awesome because it just moves in straight lines and
people don't realize that. So I love a scrambler, but you
get me on like the teacups or this thing was like the rodeo or
something, something. And so it started off doing a

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spin thing and then. Turned into a.
Scrambler and then went back to a spin thing.
I was toast. I had to take a Dramamine.
I don't have a bones creaking sound effect, but just imagine
it's not old. It's not.
Old OK, it's I used to drink myself sick all the time so now

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my body goes, we're dizzy, throwup.
Fairpoint, I never thought of that.
Yeah, we did this to us, yes. This is my.
Fault I would like to blame. Somebody, but this is clearly my
fault. The consequences of my own.

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How dare they. But yeah, no, it was a it was a
really good time outside of thatone ride.
Yeah, I had AI, had a great time.
Nice. Yeah.
Oh God, there's. I could turn myself sick.
On insurer these days, yes. This is another time, Amanda.

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And I were at California Adventure and, and obviously
California fucking the other Disney park out there and they
have this gigantic fucking Ferris wheel and the cars are on
tracks like they're enclosed cars.
So you're sitting across from people instead of like like a

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normal Ferris wheel, like you'reon a bench.
And like, what happens is when you get to like a certain point,
the car starts sliding down and then like when it gets to the
bottom, it'll hit and then swing.
And like it's, it's constantly like sliding back and forth as
you're going up and down. Fuck all that.

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Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So like I like I'm, I'm like Amanda's like I don't want to go
on that. I'm scared.
I'm like, all right, that's fine.
I'm like, just wait, like, you know, wait with me.
I'm like, I want to go on. It looks cool.
Like, you know, she's like, well, if you're going to go on,
I'm going to go on. I'm like, no, you don't need to
like, yeah, you know, it. It got to the point where I'm
begging her. I'm like, please do not go on

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this ride. I'm like, she's in line.
Just going to have a bad. Time.
Yeah, she's like crying. Already in the line like and
with anxiety, I'm like, please do not get on the ride.
Like do not get on this ride. You're not going to have fun.
She's like, no, no, I don't wantyou to go alone.
Like I'm totally fine. Like you should not go on the
ride. So she ends up going on the ride
of course and is like freaking out the whole time while I am

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just laughing maniacally like the joke.
There's so at. In, in Six Flags New England,
they have, you know, like the swing, you know where like
you're on the, you're in the seat on the cables.
Well, it's that, but it's massive and it goes up like, I

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don't know, it's got to be a couple 100 fucking feet.
So you're. Swinging like a crazy amount.
Watch somebody's shoes fly off of that.
Like there there. Are rides where like I cannot
even look at them without my butt hole just like clenching

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like immediately. Look, I don't.
Love heights. Like I can do things at a
height, but I don't want to travel that height.
Yeah, and I don't want to like. I don't want to not.
Be in control of the height, youknow what I mean?
Yeah, yeah. So when I went to the.

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Sears Tower in Chicago. They have these glass.
Boxes that like push out from the side of the building so like
you can stand in them and then like look down and you're just
looking straight at the fucking St. like 100 and something
stories below you. I literally like I'm like look
down, like Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope.
Got right the fuck yeah. Not.

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Going to do this? Nope.
Yeah. Fuck all of that.
Nope. But yeah, no.
That's that's pretty much it forme.
Like I didn't. No, I.
Watched anything I don't think Iwatched.
Anything. Yeah.
Doug, I like there isn't shit onto watch lately.

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I was going to say I spent the 4th over at the Bull and B with
our friends there enjoying some delicious mirth and some other
fucking delicious delicious Meads you had.
Joy, you had mirth. We.
Had it all yeah yeah, absolutely, but yeah no, as the

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runway as the scroll says, you can head over to their website,
get $5 off it is absolutely worth it yeah, we'll.
Have more? Stuff.
Oh, I forgot. That's an after show.
Thing I forgot to ask, ask Alex about that, that gaming thing he
was talking about last time. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

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yeah. So we.
Might have more stuff coming with the Bull and B folks coming
soon. Anything else?
Arthur, you got anything? It's been a while.
Oh shit. What?
No. No.
I've got. Nothing.
That's not how this. Show works.
I don't know what to do. This isn't the show I talk on.

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What's? Coming up on the show that you
talk on. Oh.
At a date yet to be decided, we're doing evolution.
Doctor Brooks will. Be guesting in.
Ah, as it turns. Out tuki tuki cacao.
Cacao does not work. No, I think it's.
I believe we've established. Oh, whatever.

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I saw that movie once. I've seen it. 16 years ago, I
think that's the most agreed upon movie and amongst my family
members that everyone would be willing to watch.
Really. Yeah.
Across all genres, everything, everyone's interests, that's the
one we can all go to Evolution. Let's see, we we have a bunch of

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stuff coming up at the end of the month, July 30th, I think
through August. It's either August. 1st through
the 3rd or July 30th through the2nd.
I will be at Tampa Bay Comic Conin Tampa Bay, New York.

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God damn. It you're.
All over the place. No, it's because.
TJ Lamb was trying to do links because he's an asshole.
I don't know what I'm going to be doing yet there, but they
just added a bunch of awesome stuff to their lineup.
Fonzie. I might get to talk to Fonzie.
I know. That'll be so cool.
I like I. I think I said this maybe in our

(01:23:42):
group text. I said it to somebody like there
are few people I will ever spring to like get a picture
with or like want to talk to. I fucking want a picture with
Henry Winkler, the Fonz. I want to say Keith David's

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going to be there. I would love to talk to him.
I want to say a lot of Yeah, let's see.
And then the first weekend in September, I believe it's

(01:24:26):
September 6th, the 1st Saturday in September, you can find us at
the Dark Forest Oddities Expo that is in Peabody, MA, that is
right near Salem in Boston. So there is no reason not to
travel out there. You can go see us, check out the

(01:24:46):
show, and that's over. You can go check out Salem, you
can go check out Boston. It's great times all around.
I mean, you're probably. Going to have a better time in
Salem than Boston because Bostonis a butthole of the town.
Boston's a nice city. Man, hey, it's a nice city.
Pardon me and. Then I got to remember these

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fucking dates. I think it's October 25th.
We are going to be at the Expo in Seekonk, MA.
This is the Halloween Cannabis Expo that's going to be again
October 25th, right before Halloween.
Chris is. Not going to survive, Yeah, no.

(01:25:29):
It's it's the boy's going to be in in Ruption.
But that looks like it's going to be a really, really fun
event. I was looking at some of the
pictures from the past ones. Looks like it'll be a crazy good
time. So don't miss out on that.
What the hell else? We're around.

(01:25:51):
We got things cooking. You'll be hearing news soon.
That's right. Donner, of course, is plugging
himself. Now he's just barking away.
I wish you would just. Plug himself and get it all,
Christ. All right, you ready for some
socials? Yeah, what the hell?

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