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December 18, 2023 • 30 mins
Today we review the worst and wierdest movies made, while going through Propstores catelog.
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You were now listening to the podcastfor Geeks and the Stuff they Love,
where each week we'll talk about everythingfrom anime to movies, games and prop
collecting, but the people who createand love it. I'm Jeremy, I'm
Vince, I'm James, and Vinceis your geekis So I mentioned last time
that prop store actually contacted us andsaid, hey, you know we have

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this other shee context is pretty frequentlyactually, and so, hey, we
got this thing going on, canyou promote it? And then we even
if we do choose too, it'sjust say too late. It's all good
life flights await. Yeah, everythingI'm gonna be showing you actually technically sold.
But the purpose of this one isnot just what they had just so

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I can share it here for you. What they had wasn't just a a
an auction like they normally do withprops and stuff. This one was of
movie posters. And the movie postersare movies that that are classics. I

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mean, I'll say that they areall classics, some of them cult classics,
and uh you know, I meanI've shared before, I have my
Forbidden Planet. I love I lovesome of the posters that are like Forbidden
Planet or or even King Kong thingslike that. You know, they're they're

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real classics, classic movies that youknow, we're kind of big deals and
so uh. At the same time, some of these are kind of funny.
Can you You can see the posterI have up right now. Yeah,
so this is do you know themovie, Well, it's SASA.
Since you only live twice, oh, it does give it up at the

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type I put it up there.Yeah, yeah, you only live twice.
Have you ever seen it? Though? No, I I saw back
in the day. My dad's ahuge James Bond fan, so you know,
I saw every single James Bond,even even the ones that I probably
shoudn't have at the same time.So I've seen this for I had vague
memories of it, but uh thenI heard, you know, I was

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I was watching I think it wasBroun Japan and uh and Chris on there
had brought up this movie because itwas it's filmed in Japan one hundred percent.
You know, these are it wasfilmed in really famous locations as well,
and stuff with with famous actors.They're Japanese actors, I mean,
you know, so they you thinkthat they would go all out and making

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sure that it was it wasn't offensive. I guess you could say, if
you watch it now, you'll beplug away at at at what this movie
is like. So let me seeif I can let me see if I
can switch this over here real quick. So it's like everybody all worse.

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Well, that's part of it.So what's funny about this is they they
have this scene where, you know, because he's going to go undercover where
we're basically lee ninjas are being trainedand stuff. So anyway, they so
of course they say, well he'sgot to become Japanese. So this is
Sean Connery by the way, thatthis is the double so that we're talking

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about. So they take Sean Conneryand they put a really bad wig on
him. They put a little bitof makeup at the corners of his eyes
and then they use saltee to pullback his eyes. Oh wow. And
then and then you know, keepin mind too, this guy is like
six to two, right, soevery compared to everyone else in the movie,
and he's trying to blend in thewhole time. He'll like hunch over
and he has a hat on hereand there. But for the most part,

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he's trying to blend in with people, and he never changes his accent
and barely learns Japanese, so he'slike, yeah, like the whole time
he keeps us basically barely says thewords, right. What's funny is so

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this is this is I well,okay, so I think the reason why
I had a hard time finding thisis actually I've got to I'm gonna try
and find the better originals of this. But at the same time, oh,
can you hear the sound too?I know it's okay because they want
to keep that out. But what'sfunny about this is so he's trying to
blend in right here, and youcan even see every time I watch it

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now you see people reacting to him, and I picture they're thinking to themselves,
is he really Japanese? That guy'snot Japanese? Is he every single
scene that comes up and stuff,it's kind of it's so it's so bad

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sixty seven or something. Yep,yeah, there he is right there.
Oh yeah, they also darkened hisskin. They like add makeup on it,
uh and stuff. But uh yeah, the whole time I'll like a
picture is just every time they sawsomebody looking at him, so they're thinking,
is this guy really Japanese? Yeah, look at that. That's oh

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wow. They yeah, that's right. And he has Chris. They can't
get rid of his standard ibras.He has a big thicks. But anyway,
there is walking along with everybody else. You see how much bigger he
is than that everyone else man an. Yeah, it's pretty funny that My

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dad was also very so I thinkI might might have seen my my first
changeble movie was licensed to kill.Oh yeah, oh really, yeah,
so that's great that dates be Iguess that's funny. Yeah, I mean
that's that's an example of of youknow, some of the some of the
stuff that they had the other theother onesies that they had probably my guess,

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oh yeah, but again but again, I mean, Japan didn't have
the boom yet from the eighties.Like it's the same joke they make in
the Back to the Future where DocBrown says, oh, it's Jeoparanese and
then Marty says, oh, theymake the best stuff, you know,
right, I think. I thinkalso it was it was very unknown for
people to actually get there and filmthere initially. Oh yeah, how to

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handle those things from a from apersonal perspective. I mean, you have
a lott of technical people and scriptwritingpeople and and you know, all people
are kind of out of plation,out of touch, you know what's funny
speaking of like Michael J. Foxand Family Ties. Family Ties became a
big hit eventually in Japan, likemore very fairly recently. And I remember

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saying several every interviews when people askon the news, they would ask people
from America, uh, you knowabout America. One of the questions they
would always ask is is it isit really true? Like do people wear
shoes and said the house like theydo in family because they just walk around,
you know, walk around the house. They see them walk around the
house of their shoes on there likewhat these people? But anyway, but

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yeah, here's here's another example ofone of the posters. Wow, so
this one says Jeeper Scoopers. Thismovie is actually very important to me because
when I was a kid, uh, this was a this was a movie
that the I was born not evenclose to when this was made. This

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has made you know, several severalseveral years like back when my parents were
even when my parents were kids thatthey would have been too young. Yeah,
but uh at the same time,I Haven't Costello was still like you
would watch those movies at your friend'shouses for for like sleepovers and stuff.
This movie, though, is abig, big deal because it's it's actually

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it's known to be one of thebiggest classic movies and horror movies ever because
of everybody that they got to bein it. It wasn't just you know,
I'm in colleged Costello meet Frankenstein,which they don't technically meet Frankenstein.
They meet Frankenstein's monster. Just toclarify for all the geeks out there,
they're gonna make some moment the monsterare they do? Oh yeah, where

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is that at? Oh wait isthis? Did you see the current one?
Oh? Yeah, yeah you doso. But at the same time
they also get to meet the wolfMan and they get to meet Dracula,
who are all the original Like whenyou think of Dracula and you think of
Frankenstein stuff, and you think ofthe original movies that were made, these

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are the original actors, Bella Lagosiand stuff like that. And the makeup,
most importantly all done by the sameperson is you know, it came
to do the same makeup for thismovie. And like the legacy actor movies
that we'shi right now? Right,yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
it's this is almost their their universekind of thing. Of course in this

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movie, uh, Frankenstein belongs toDracula, and Dracula owns and then and
then, uh, the wolf Manis like a friend. As I remember,
I didn't watch the full movie recently, just to kind of give you
a little a little view. Issomething that I only know if I cultural
as moss. I've never seen anythingof them. I just from pop culture.

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Really, Oh, you got towatch this though. This is a
this is a classic. So here, here's a same thing with the with
the march Bruns and the three Stooges. I've never seen ever seen that,
you know, I always like thathaven't cost all the most. But like,
here's so we're watching a scene rightnow. So here Castillo is we

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got him, she's he's uh ishe a postman or a chief for a
He's supposed to be a policeman,all right, and then Abbage shows up
here in a few minutes. Butin fact, most most likely the whole
seat is actual pink and blue andyellow and all that kind of stuff.
Oh yeah and white and yeah,and it changed to it. The the

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I mean, this is so,this is Belgosi playing Dracula. He hypnotizes
him. He they do the classic. They even do the exact shot that's
from the original movie of Dracula rightthere where you got the close up of
the eyes and mouth in his noseand stuff. And then uh, he'll
go. He goes and he wakesup Frankenstein next and when he the way

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that he wakes up Frankinston also wellthe Frankston Monster or whatever, you guys
just leave me on. Uh.He goes in and does it just like
saw the movie too. So hedoes the little the little thing out the
sides to get it electrically charged,and then and then resetting the eyes.
So there he is got some goodeffects going on there. Ohow yeah,

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yeah, going I've gone in andpainted after the fact and uh and the
superimposed it which soon was super imposition. It was a big deal. You
had to be cut out and everythingelse. But yeah, here he goes
and he's waking up. But they'sI mean, yeah, what a classic.

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That's a great, great movie.If you haven't seen it, honestly,
it holds up. I just Igot to watch it again. Just
recently with my family, and Iwas surprised because I was like, Oh,
they're probably not gonna hang there inthere and watch it. And even
though it's black and white, itkind of needs to be black and white
because it really does come across asas the original movie did. And then

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it throws in some of the someof the humor pieces, uh too.
That that's something that you know,people of are and younger generations then't know.
But there's like an old fout ofgood movies that are maybe you know
by public knowledge, like as Isaid before, with cultural suppose you know

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about Dracula, but have you seenDracula all right? And and all that
kind of stuff. So there aresometimes like the Criterion Collection and they try
to make sure that those movies areavailable for everybody. Yeah, some of
them are are public domain. Youcan watch just everywhere basically. But cinema
was actually really good in the bestso with special effects, like I watched

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Corridor Crew like the Corridor, Yeah, and they have like visual artists react
and then you see like some insanescenes that they have managed to do with
the technology of the day that yeah, would most likely be impossible to do
nowadays. So yeah, that kindof stuff is really interesting. Speaking always,
I mean, this would be thenext movie is one that they would

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talk about now, Unlike now,this one's been remade more recently, and
it's a good example of what you'resaying, Like they remake can't touch this
original, so the original used onlypractical effects. Did you ever see the
original American Werewolf in London? Ohit's a classic, And I'm gonna tell
you all the reasons why. Theposter seems really simple and honestly, and

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so unless you were into and knewhow special this movie is, it'd be
hard to be able to to thinkthat it was it was that great.
This is the post that they havefor sale right there. But let's see
here I want to show you.Isn't nineteen sixty one? Geez. I

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saw this when I was a kid. Again, probably shouldn't have. I
had a friend who had who hadcable. But at the same time,
my parents also told me about itbecause it was that unique. So what's
great about this version is is,first off, it doesn't just follow the

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standard Oh yeah, he's you know. The story is, you got these
two tourists, they go to London, American tourists from New York go to
London, and then one of themgets both of them get attacked by a
werewolf and and one of them getskilled. The friend gets killed, and

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and then yeah, and eighty one. That makes more sense because it was
it was in my lifetime and Isaw I saw it not too long after
it came out, but some time. So so the friend gets killed.
But in what what I like aboutthe movie, and one of the clever
things is that one of the firstthings that happens before he first changes is

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that the friend keeps visiting him,and each time the friend visited to him,
he's like decompensating, like he knowsthat the friend's dead. But at
the same time, you know,so first time that the friend shows up,
he's late, and the friend's hilarious. He's the kind of the comic
relief. Aside from the fact thathe you know, he's showing up and
he's dead, he's funny. Youknow. He tells about his about his

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uh, his funeral, that hesaw the funeral and that his girlfriend went
and had an affair as the nightof his funeral and stuff and things like
that. But at the same time, it's it's a clever idea. It's
it's fun how how they did thatpiece. And then so this is the
transformation scene, which is what Corridorcrew I bit you the Corner crew,

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I'm pretty sure did do a thingon it. We have to censor out.
There's a little bit of new toyhere for a second. But at
the same time, this is practicaleffects only, and and so everything had
to be done in stages upon stagesupon stages. So puppetry like this right
here, So they show his handstart stretching things. So they had this

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this mech, they had this,uh, puppeteering hand stretches. This is
by the same effects artists, bythe way, that did the thing.
So you know, if you youwere aware of the original movie, yeah,
the original of the Thing movie.Yeah, yeah, they made that
one thing. Uh, then you'reprobably familiar with the kind of effects and

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what this looks like. Like hisfeet are stretching out, the hands and
stuff. They do an effect too, where they they filmed hair being pulled
into the into the body that theyhad and then they reversed it so it
looks like the hairs growing out ofhim and then they have like muscles and
things like that. They had allthese puppeteers to be pushing stuff, and

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then they'd had them acting again inmultiple prospects, multiple this took. This
took months to fill a scene inthis location. Uh oh yeah, this
part you can tell. It's throughthe floor. He had They have him
his body through the floor and thenthe rest of the body's all stretched out
and pull off, uh and stuff. And then the big the big famous

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piece is still coming up. Butso he's getting really hairy at this point,
he's got the claws and stuff,the teeth are the things are growing
out. And then all of asudden they got Mickey watching them. Mickey
Mouse is in his room. Yeah. Another I think they did some stop
motion here. Yeah, but alot of this is just them pushing they

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you know, they have rubber foamand latex. This is just being stretched
out. But any rate, wow, yeah, it's pretty crazy. Look
at the ribs and stuff like thatand stuff. I mean, yeah,
if you haven't seen it, uh, that's another one, another one to

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check out. But any rate,so, yeah, I got that one.
Then if he's sticking on kind ofthe the spooky uh realm of things,
let's see here here we go.Uh, then we've got uh,

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let's see we already did we didthat one. We did that one,
then we got to move on toAttack of the fifty Foot Woman. Yeah.
I did a one off for Dand D called the Attack of the
fifty foot Werewolf. That that's thesame thing without the were wolf. That's
what did you ever see this movie? I think bits of it because it

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was so yeah, the whole thingabout it that Yeah, basically it's what's
on the poster that that that bit. I gotta say, share the audio
on this because the audio is partof what's funny about this one. This
is a classic. They they investedactually a bit of money into building a

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city, a miniature city and stuff. Basically picture Godzilla, except they just
got a model and she came inand they had her, you know,
destroyed. The whole thing too,was that she slowly gets bigger. So
the storyline is Carol, open upthe video first here, let's see uh

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Carrier. So oh yeah, thereit goes. Wait wait wait wait wait
wait wait wait hang out. Okay, it was running for me as a
as a as a movie buff andthe collector that kind of stuff, you
know, the auction of setting offmovie posters. It doesn't have that much

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providence, you know, putting itback to something like this was the thing
on there there. This auction iskind of twofold one. So this would
be like going to buy a comicbook if you're really being into comic books.
That's a first print. So theseare first prints, okay released then

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yeah, yeah, and the coupleof them were also one of the ones
I saw at least was a wasthe basically the the template for the for
doing the layers. It's pretty ifyou're into this is like the holy real
stuff. Yeah, yeah, Imean it's yeah, it's truly for people

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that that are collectors of that,which is that I mean, that's why
they do what they what they do, right is is it's not for me
because I'd just rather buy a printor period. Right, It's like I
can get that online, you knowwhat I mean. But on the side,
yeah, I would have it.I would have it signed by the
author and the money going to theperson who made it, right, which

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was just you know this this wasa movie post made back in the day
for a million cinemas and we justhave two of them or something, right,
Boy, I wish I could sharethe audio on this one. So
so yeah, so shocked. Ilove the stuff that says sock devastation.
Of course, it's just first perspectto some of them too. Her hand

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in front of the camera and soit looks bigger they did. Yeah,
they have a lot of models.My favorite though, is this hand.
They have this hand of the monsterthat touched her the first time, that
gave her. These made hers startto grow. She met this giant thing.
Because they never saw the giant thing. There's just a big orb dell.
But check out that hand. Soyeah, they built one prop.

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There was a big rubber hand andat one point time it grabs a car
and it literally just kind of likegets thrown onto the car. Stuff.
But yeah, so she's she's slowlygrowing. People think she's just crazy and
and this is all about the factthat her boyfriend has a girl, this
girl right here. What's funny aboutthe scene, if you could hear the

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sound, is there's no music playing, but there's a couple of the background
dancing. It's that that's the guywho do this this thing. You're like
get out or something. Oh no, no, no, no, he
uh he yeah, he's he's he'she wants to put her away so I
can get her money because she's,uh, she has money. But on
the flip side, yeah, there'sthere was a couple of the other ways.

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But yeah, there's a scene wherethe people are dancing in the background.
There's no music playing during that dancing. I think they meant to put
in music later on, but he'sa black and white movie. Yeah,
I sue for the thib, thatwould be very spicy to see her where
I brae theikini kind of thing likethere would be very adult to show.

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I guess. Oh, yeah,this is the era of the drive in,
of the drive in cult movies,right all right, and so so
yeah, trying to dract a tractusing you know, the the sexiness factor.
But on the flip side, uh, it also had to be you
know, it was campy and cheap, so you know, something that probably

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probably took them a month to filmfor teenagers to smooch during the movie is
still get yeah yeah, yeah yeah. And then so of course they house
some you know, like hot scenesand stuff like that time. But at
the same time, yeah, it'sa classic, though it's been remade,
remade a billion times, it's it'syou know, made fun of all the

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time. It's it's for such amovie that I think was probably not a
big movie even back then, justa good notoriety of the name and the
actual yeah you know, way,that's exactly it. So you see this,
Oh wait, you don't see anythingyet. So the one of the
last ones I want to cover thatI like that they had, which I

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couldn't believe that they actually had thisposter because I don't think that many people
know what it is. Have youever seen this poster before? Finncer,
do you know what movie this goesto? Uh? Like I said,

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an Asian Movie's that the Bikens.It's Attack of the Mushroom People, which
they renamed for the English version.They named it. It says it on
this trailer. But and and honestly, the English version's awesome to see because

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it is so badly it's not justbadly translated. They decided to change a
lot of things in it. Butsome of the stuff that they'll say is
funny. Can tell you some ofthe stuff with American golf Zilla like that,
like the other actors that are originalmovie, that kind of stuff.
If anyone's ever watched The thing Ialways liked about Power Rangers Now this is

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that that was a TV show madeyou know that that they made over you
know, in in Asia. Butthen when they bring it over here,
they filmed they filmed scenes that wereyou know, the the American based scenes,
but whenever they grew up, wheneverthey turned into the you know,
into the what what do they callthe thing I guess or scenes were also

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from from the series. Just theybasically sticks together all the fighting scenes in
the big which was a problem becauseyou know, they were supposed to be
in like in like Orange County orsomething like that, and then when they
cut back, you know, they'dbe fighting inside of some city that was
obviously it was like a Godzilla moviecity, or where they'd have like,
you know, they'd have things thatare obviously not not in California based better

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the same me as a Dutch kid, wasn't really bothered by that because I
loved it. The bits, yeah, and I never found out until I
was deep into like history and youhad like a secret galaxy like Dan rom
Doy Galaxy or Secret Galaxy now doingthe bits about the history of until before

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that, or the toys toys thatmade us or the movies that made us
before that, I didn't really knowanything about that, about most of those
things. Well, listen, likeI said that med Tango, that's that's
what they renamed it too. Soif you're trying to find this to watch
it in English, it's probably underthe name Matango. But the original version
was called was called Attack the MushroomPeople. And so that basically this group

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of people, Oh yeah, soyou eat fish and total things anything we
can eat, as well as snakesand lizards. Just finished, Just let
me finish. There's a lot ofgrass growing around here. You can eat
the roots, you can eat theroots of a lot of plants. The
thing was that they're not allowed toeat any of the mushrooms. So they
tell them, you can eat anythingyou want to survive, but you can't

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eat the mushrooms. And eventually peopleare like, I can't eat anything,
and so they're starving themselves and theystarted to go a little bit crazy.
They start attacking each other, andeventually, of course somebody has to eat
the mushrooms, and then you knowit results and this monstrous thing that occurs,
and uh and so classic, classic, classic movie that you enjoy every

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second off because it's it's so badly. The thing is, you see them
mate with makeup making a bit morebill than they are actually just do it
here to the Hollywood dibe, rightyeah. Yeah. I don't know how
long after they made it that theyfinally released it in the US or where
they re dubbed it. But again, this would be one that you'd probably

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go to see anything that says Attackof probably was a drive in movie.
Yeah yeah, uh, you knowtype of thing on the island, on
an island of doom. There theyare, that's a mushroom person right there,
there's another person. But yeah,this film never ceased. Did you
see that part? Go let go? Yeah, yeah, that's there.

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Is also good what they call theWu Tang Collection, and I assume someone
associated with that grew or whatever theycall it. They have like they didn't
do. Yeah, they I believe. I'm not sure what the history is,
but I saw some of them onYouTube. It's a channel where they
have like read dubbed Agent Kung Fumovies most most often, oh yeah,

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and and and they have like theGrace So I think they imported them and
just read up them themselves. Butsome affiliation with the Wu Tang clan,
like the rep group is there,but like some some of those voices is
just serious and it's like super seriousfight scene and people are talking about this

(28:37):
it's great but yeah, that kindof stuff. But then then then you
know, half serious, like it'sit's they take it to the to the
level that they want to dub everythingcorrectly and then the text should work,
but the voices, it's just liketwo people basically having to do like an
ensemble cast and they just have touse the voices that they can do and

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the Yeah, it's if anyone's everwondered what's inside this catch because the bottom
of this couch is the storage area, and the whole storage area is kung
Fu movies. Because I'm a hugecollector now and now you know, now
I would probably just do it allonline, but in some of the stuff
I have done here you can't evenget online. But I love, yeah,

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I love old kung Fu, theold ones, the old kung Fu
movies, and so they just can'tbe beat. But yeah, just thought
I share some of those things,so that I did tell Popster. Hey,
yeah, well we'll talk about talkabout the posters and things, and
at the same time these movies.I just thought, man, we got
to talk about these movies. Peoplehave to check them out. If you
have a movie that you like,or if you just saw one of these
movies, or you're gonna go,you're gonna go check it out. Comment

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