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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind production of My

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Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is

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Speaker 1: Rob Lamb and I'm Joe McCormick. In. Today we're addressing

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Speaker 1: the nineteen seventies six genre mash up film Devil's Express

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Speaker 1: also known as Gang Wars. Did you know about this

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Speaker 1: alternate title? Rob? Yeah, yeah, I'd run across some sort

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Speaker 1: of alternate trailers for it. I guess you see this

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Speaker 1: a lot with with with films that came came out,

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Speaker 1: especially back in the in the nineteen seventies, where it

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Speaker 1: comes out, maybe it doesn't play as well, or maybe

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Speaker 1: something else happens in the zeitgeist and you want to

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Speaker 1: you want a second shot at it, so you just

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Speaker 1: retitle it and put it out there again and see

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Speaker 1: if you catch any any viewers. So the claim that

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Speaker 1: I came across, uh, we should maybe it's best to

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Speaker 1: start with the elevator pitch. The elevator pitch here is

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Speaker 1: that when an ancient Chinese demon is released the subway

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Speaker 1: arts named Luke Curtis must summon all his courage to

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Speaker 1: defeat the Underground Evil. So it is a martial arts

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Speaker 1: demon horror movie, but it also has elements of like

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Speaker 1: gang fighting in the streets. And according to a write

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Speaker 1: up by Code Red, which I think did the Blu

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Speaker 1: ray rerelease of this movie, that they said that when

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Speaker 1: The Warriors was released theatrically, which I think would have

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Speaker 1: been in nineteen seventy nine, so three years after this

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Speaker 1: movie came out, they say, the distributor of Devil's Express

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Speaker 1: re titled it Gang Wars essentially to make it look

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Speaker 1: like a Warrior's type movie. Of course, if you haven't

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Speaker 1: seen The Warriors, that's just it's a movie about all

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Speaker 1: these weird, different little gangs in New York that have

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Speaker 1: their their own interesting costumes and quirks, and they're running

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Speaker 1: around fighting each other and all that. And I think

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Speaker 1: they wanted to cash in on that that Warriors magic. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, The Warriors is is a fabulously weird film

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Speaker 1: in its own right, because when we say weird gangs,

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Speaker 1: we mean if you haven't seen it, it's like there's

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Speaker 1: a baseball gang, there's the Baseball Furies. That's right. The

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Speaker 1: first time I saw that, that was the funniest thing

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Speaker 1: it's as if it's said in an alternate reality where

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Speaker 1: you just have a bunch of wacky, wacky gangs with

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Speaker 1: all these wacky themes. Uh. So it's definitely worth worth

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Speaker 1: checking out superior movie to what we're talking about here today.

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Speaker 1: But the one we're talking about here today, Devil's Express,

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Speaker 1: is just a wonderful mash up of of different genres,

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Speaker 1: knifing around each other in a way that that is

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Speaker 1: ultimately quite entertaining. Yeah. So they retitled at Gang Morris

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Speaker 1: and there are gangs in this movie, and the gangs

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Speaker 1: do fight, but this movie really has more to do

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Speaker 1: with its star Warhawk ten Zania down a demon to

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Speaker 1: fight in the subway tunnels. Yes, and you know, we

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Speaker 1: can we can introduce war Hawk Tanzania all day and

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Speaker 1: and we're going to get into war Hawk Tanzania in

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Speaker 1: a minute. But why don't we go ahead and listen

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Speaker 1: to the trailer. The original TV trailer for the film

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Speaker 1: because you really need a narrator's voice to introduce Warhawk

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Speaker 1: Tanzania to the world. To take a ride on the

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Speaker 1: Devil's Expressed. What happens when two thousand years of evil

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Speaker 1: Devil and those the Devil has possessed to Ford monsoon

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Speaker 1: take a ride on the Devil's Express. It may be

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Speaker 1: your last star rated R. See now, are aren't you

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Speaker 1: completely on board with Warhawk Tanzania the either the next

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Speaker 1: salesmanship in this uh, in this particular trailer. One thing

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Speaker 1: as a horror movie. I think, what do you think

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Speaker 1: about that? They definitely stressed the monster movie aspects of this,

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Speaker 1: New York City martial arts gang war movie. No, there's

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Speaker 1: also some sort of a subway monster in it. There's

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Speaker 1: of course there. But stylistically this film has a lot

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Speaker 1: genre that has has a very complicated legacy. Of course,

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Speaker 1: But then also like the term black exploitation actually was

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Speaker 1: And in a similar way, of course, you also have

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Speaker 1: this is a This is a grimy seventies grindhouse film,

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Speaker 1: but it also borders on one of our favorite genres

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Speaker 1: that we've discussed before. Of course, this other genre we've

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Speaker 1: which it was a really fun movie to talk about. Uh. Here,

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Speaker 1: Like Warhawk, Tanzania must confront not just corrupt cops and

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Speaker 1: So many movies have elements of martial arts in them.

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Speaker 1: Pascal Vacuire, Ceotis Robinson, and Bobby Saberstein. These are the screenwriters.

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Speaker 1: you can tell like this is a guy who who

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Speaker 1: gets some of the the intricacies of acting in ways

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Speaker 1: that the martial artists maybe do not. It's always an

429
00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:42,199
Speaker 1: interesting dynamic in martial arts films where the main cast

430
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Speaker 1: is full of martial artists, people who you could say

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Speaker 1: are martial artists first, an actors second, and then they

432
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Speaker 1: will often try to round it out just by filling

433
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Speaker 1: in like great character actors, to bring in that kind

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Speaker 1: of personality and texture that's not always there in people

435
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Speaker 1: who's whose first thing is martial arts. Yeah, yeah, and

436
00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:04,200
Speaker 1: so yeah, Teddy Teddy Wilson definitely stands out talented actor.

437
00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:09,800
Speaker 1: He lived through Um he played Sweet Daddy Williams on

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00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:12,000
Speaker 1: Good Times, and he did a lot of additional TV

439
00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:15,879
Speaker 1: work popping up on big TV shows from that era, including,

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Speaker 1: but not limited to, by any means, All in the Family,

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Speaker 1: Sanford and Son, The Bionic Woman, The Jefferson's, the nineteen

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Speaker 1: eighties Twilight Zone series l a Law, Alien Nation, family Matters,

443
00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:30,159
Speaker 1: and even Tales from the Crypt. He was in the

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Speaker 1: episode Fitting Punishment. I don't know if you remember this one,

445
00:24:33,119 --> 00:24:36,480
Speaker 1: but this uh, this had a uh it involved a

446
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Speaker 1: black funeral home and you had the wonderful actor Moses

447
00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:45,120
Speaker 1: Gunn playing this tyrannical funeral director there like being being

448
00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:48,119
Speaker 1: just like a just really hard on his nephew. No,

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Speaker 1: I don't think I've seen it. It's it's a good

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Speaker 1: It's not like Top Shelf, uh, Tales from the Crypt,

451
00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:56,960
Speaker 1: but it's it's pretty good. And Teddy Wilson shows up

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Speaker 1: in it. Um. But yeah, Teddy Wilson was He isn't

453
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Speaker 1: a bunch of stuff. He was in films by John

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Speaker 1: Cassavetti's Blake Edwards, and he was in the nineteen eighties

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Speaker 1: Steve McQueen movie The Hunter. Alright. Some other names of

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Speaker 1: note and also names that are barely worth noting. There's

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Speaker 1: an actor by the name of Stephen DeFazio, who plays

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Speaker 1: Sam the lugheaded cop Um a memorable character in the film,

459
00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,800
Speaker 1: but this is his only film role. Um. But yeah,

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00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:25,800
Speaker 1: he's he's pretty fun as a lugheaded conspiracy theory spreading

461
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Speaker 1: a police officer. Wait, is he supposed to be a lughead?

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Speaker 1: I get that he's like the butt of jokes, but

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Speaker 1: I thought the whole point was that he's kind of

464
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Speaker 1: like Harley Stone's new partner. He's like the he's I've

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Speaker 1: got a criminology degree. He's, you know, bringing this kind

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Speaker 1: of like smooth academic sensibility that's actually stupid. I mean,

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Speaker 1: maybe that's what they were going for. I got more

468
00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:50,520
Speaker 1: lugheaded conspiracy theory spreader. Uh. He he is the guy

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Speaker 1: who keeps saying that the murders caused by the demon

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Speaker 1: and the subway tunnels are actually caused by mutant cats. Okay,

471
00:25:58,160 --> 00:26:01,040
Speaker 1: but but he's fine. Clearly the they ended up like

472
00:26:01,119 --> 00:26:03,399
Speaker 1: ending on a note from him with the film, so

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00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:05,399
Speaker 1: that they clearly like the character once they got it

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Speaker 1: on the screen. All right. Uncredited, but Ron Becks is

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00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:13,800
Speaker 1: in this as a martial arts student. Uncredited in this picture,

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Speaker 1: but he went on to direct, produce, and star in

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Speaker 1: several low budget movies. I think is still making low

478
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Speaker 1: budget movies. Um, starring in pictures that he directed opposite

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Speaker 1: such names as One Time Bond, George Lasenby, and even

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Speaker 1: Eric Roberts. And you know Eric Roberts won't just appear

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Speaker 1: in anything. Um. Here's another one of note. Paul Glickmana

482
00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:39,400
Speaker 1: was the director of photography on this. He was also

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Speaker 1: a cinematographer on some other famous seventies genre films, including

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Speaker 1: The Stuff and God Told Me To Now, as far

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Speaker 1: as music goes on this film, I don't think it

486
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Speaker 1: really has a score per se, but they do feature

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00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:55,800
Speaker 1: a number of different musical bits, and it features several

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Speaker 1: tracks from a music group called Rising Sun like Son

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00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:03,639
Speaker 1: and Daughter Rising Sun, which which didn't mean anything to

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Speaker 1: me until I started looking into it a little bit.

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00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:12,359
Speaker 1: And these songs were written by Harlem disco legend Patrick Adams. Now,

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Speaker 1: if you haven't heard of Patrick Adams, you'r you can

493
00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:18,320
Speaker 1: be forgiven for that. Apparently he's he's often um forgotten

494
00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:20,959
Speaker 1: or not recognized outside of the genre, but is what

495
00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:24,880
Speaker 1: is is very well respected within the disco genre and

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00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:28,280
Speaker 1: in DJ circles. Uh. There was a two thousand seventeen

497
00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:31,080
Speaker 1: Guardian profile about him that described him as quote the

498
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Speaker 1: underground disco super producer whom DJ is still at doore. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So even if you don't know the name Patrick Adams

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Speaker 1: off the top of your your head, you've you've probably

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00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:44,119
Speaker 1: heard some of the songs that he worked on. Uh.

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00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:47,000
Speaker 1: Some some of these songs were prominently featured in other movies,

503
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Speaker 1: including Uh, Touched Me All Night Long performed by Fonda

504
00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:53,680
Speaker 1: Ray and the band Wish from four, which is a

505
00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:55,480
Speaker 1: minor hit on its own, but then it went on

506
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Speaker 1: to be featured in A Nightmare on Elm Street to

507
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Speaker 1: Freddie's Revenge. I know that movie well. Other tracks that

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00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:05,920
Speaker 1: he had a hand in include Dance Dance Dance by

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00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:10,439
Speaker 1: Martin Acuna, in the Bush by Music, Keep On Jumping

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00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:13,280
Speaker 1: by Music. Um that's also the name of the seventy

511
00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:17,120
Speaker 1: eight album and you can look that up in Spotify.

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00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:21,120
Speaker 1: It's it's great stuff, just wonderful seventies disco vibe. Also

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00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:25,680
Speaker 1: Till You Surrender by Rainbow Brown and many others. So, uh,

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00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:28,200
Speaker 1: this ended up. At first, I thought there wasn't gonna

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00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:30,320
Speaker 1: be anything special with the music on this picture, but

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00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:32,159
Speaker 1: it turns out it was very special. So if you

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Speaker 1: if you're not familiar with the work of Patrick Adams,

518
00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:36,800
Speaker 1: look it up. Uh, you've heard it before, you said,

519
00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:39,680
Speaker 1: didn't realize you've heard it before. But yeah, he had

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00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:41,280
Speaker 1: his hand in so many great tracks, and I think

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00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:43,800
Speaker 1: he's still making music today. I also really enjoyed the

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Speaker 1: soundtrack on this, and one of the things I liked

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00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:51,600
Speaker 1: was the sudden transitions between like really great uh pulsing

524
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:56,959
Speaker 1: U disco or or funk music immediately cutting to like

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Speaker 1: throbbing deep sea sound effects when it was trying to

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Speaker 1: get the demon in your mind. Yeah, all right, well

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00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:14,240
Speaker 1: let's get the demon in mind on this episode. Let's

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Speaker 1: jump into the plot of Devil's Express. Alrighty well, the

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Speaker 1: very first thing we see we get a little title.

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Speaker 1: It says China two Where in China? Just somewhere in China,

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00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:32,680
Speaker 1: Though it quickly becomes a parent that any scene in

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Speaker 1: this film that's supposed to take place in China is

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Speaker 1: clearly still New York. Specifically, I think they shot this

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Speaker 1: at Harriman State Park, Bear Mountain. Uh so, yeah, it's

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00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:46,520
Speaker 1: it's very obviously not China, but it's supposed to be.

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Speaker 1: What do you think the scene of the plane landing

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00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:51,720
Speaker 1: in Hong Kong. You think that was real stock footage.

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00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:54,800
Speaker 1: I think it was real stock footage all the way

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00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:59,480
Speaker 1: now here at Harriman State Park in in China, we

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Speaker 1: have some monks who are disposing of some kind of

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Speaker 1: fearful artifact. That's the first thing you see him in

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Speaker 1: a train sort of not a train, like a locomotive.

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Speaker 1: That they are walking in a row carrying this big

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Speaker 1: box like a sarcophagus almost, or like they're carrying the

545
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Speaker 1: ark of the covenant. And uh, they are also there.

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Speaker 1: They're being watched over by this kind of head priest guy,

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Speaker 1: and they have in their possession a mirrored amulet, and

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Speaker 1: they take this big box and the mirrored amulet deep

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Speaker 1: into a cave in the forest, and they deposit the

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Speaker 1: amulet in the box in the cave, and then I

551
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Speaker 1: guess it's Quentin time. And once it's quit In time,

552
00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:40,719
Speaker 1: they are all beheaded. I think this is presumably so

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Speaker 1: they take the secret of the amulet to the grave

554
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Speaker 1: with them. So their their leader, after beheading each of

555
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Speaker 1: them in a row, he cuts his own throat. And

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Speaker 1: so one would assume that the secret evil of whatever

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Speaker 1: is in that boxes is now safe forever or is it? Well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: they don't count on meddling more martial artists from the

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00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:05,840
Speaker 1: United States coming to China and the twentieth century. One

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Speaker 1: thing I like in this movie is that, at least

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Speaker 1: in this opening scene. I think this was actually less

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Speaker 1: true in some of the later scenes, but in this

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00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:15,680
Speaker 1: opening it has some really way over the line sound effects.

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00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:18,400
Speaker 1: It's one of those things where somebody swings a sword

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00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:20,760
Speaker 1: and hits nothing, just swings it in the air, but

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Speaker 1: it produces this extremely loud steel cable kind of sound.

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00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:27,440
Speaker 1: And then after that we get to one of these

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Speaker 1: great editing montages I was talking about earlier, which is

569
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Speaker 1: really funny because it's cutting during the opening credits. It's

570
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Speaker 1: cutting between a subway tunnel with these spooky, deep chirping

571
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Speaker 1: sounds and no music, and then immediately back to crowded

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Speaker 1: streets in New York City with feel good music at

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Speaker 1: full volume. And then we meet our hero. We meet

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Speaker 1: Warhawk Tanzania playing this guy named Luke Curtis, and Luke

575
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Speaker 1: is teaching martial arts in his studio. He's sparring with

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Speaker 1: this Christian slatery kind of guy who is weird to

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Speaker 1: find out is the police detective. And apparently there's a

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Speaker 1: relationship where this guy is Luke's student and he keeps

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Speaker 1: trying to recruit Luke to become a cop. I think,

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00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:11,720
Speaker 1: is that how you understood it? Yeah. By the way,

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00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:13,840
Speaker 1: some of the synopsis you will find of this movie

582
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Speaker 1: online say that Luke is a cop, and that is

583
00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:19,360
Speaker 1: absolutely not correct. Luke is not a cop. He does

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00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:23,440
Speaker 1: not appreciate, uh, this guy's attempts to recruit him to

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Speaker 1: be a cop, and he says something he says, next

586
00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:28,240
Speaker 1: time you try to recruit me to that pig pin

587
00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:34,120
Speaker 1: of yours, I stopped pulling my punches and ice you. Yeah. Yeah,

588
00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:37,320
Speaker 1: so yeah, not definitely not a cop. Um. But but

589
00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:39,320
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean he can't train with the cop I

590
00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:43,479
Speaker 1: think one of the key messages of this film is

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Speaker 1: that martial arts is a unifier and he can unify um,

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00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:53,640
Speaker 1: you know, different gangs, different races, different cultures, and and

593
00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:56,040
Speaker 1: also it can it can unify you know, you can

594
00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:58,680
Speaker 1: even throw the police in there and everybody could get

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00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:02,520
Speaker 1: along if they are practicing martial arts and sweating profusely.

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00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:05,560
Speaker 1: If they're practicing martial arts with the right state of mind,

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00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:09,480
Speaker 1: that seems to be Luke's ethos that martial arts is

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00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:12,840
Speaker 1: not just about fighting, it also involves some kind of

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00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:17,920
Speaker 1: higher wisdom and and h and an orientation toward peace. Yes.

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00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:21,080
Speaker 1: Now Luke's student Rodan comes in and again this is

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Speaker 1: the guy played by Wilfredo Roldan, and uh, they start

602
00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:27,840
Speaker 1: talking with the cops student here, and we find out

603
00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:30,280
Speaker 1: that Luke and Rodan are about to travel to what

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00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:34,400
Speaker 1: Luke says is fabulous downtown Hong Kong, and then they're

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00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:36,800
Speaker 1: going to go for a week of self improvement, which

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00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:38,840
Speaker 1: we find it later they're going to like a monastery

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Speaker 1: of some kind to to to train to the level

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Speaker 1: of perfection like they've they've clearly both Luke and Rodana

609
00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:49,040
Speaker 1: are performing at such a high level the only way

610
00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:51,880
Speaker 1: they can improve is to is to go on journeys

611
00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:54,560
Speaker 1: like this. So after the student leaves, we we sort

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Speaker 1: of get a picture that Luke and Rodan are hope

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Speaker 1: would you I would say that it seems like they

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00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:04,160
Speaker 1: are adjacent to the criminal underworld, but Luke at the

615
00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:06,360
Speaker 1: same time as a sort of do good or who

616
00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:10,399
Speaker 1: fights for justice. Rodan, meanwhile, not so much. He comes

617
00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:16,640
Speaker 1: off as mean, course selfish, and shortsighted. And so so

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00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:19,480
Speaker 1: if Luke is somewhere in the lawful good zone, or

619
00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:21,759
Speaker 1: at least neutral good, he's kind of a night of

620
00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:25,600
Speaker 1: the fist. Rodan is somewhere more like chaotic neutral, he

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00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:29,120
Speaker 1: will get into trouble. He's a rogue. Yes. And we

622
00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:32,480
Speaker 1: also learned from this interaction that, let's see, we learned

623
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Speaker 1: that there are gangs, and they talk about the gangs,

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Speaker 1: and we learned that they have disdained for cops and

625
00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:40,960
Speaker 1: for the man. Now they immediately go to Hong Kong

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00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:43,640
Speaker 1: uh And in the Hong Kong segments, I wondered if

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Speaker 1: in the version of the movie you watched, was there

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00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:49,319
Speaker 1: some dialogue audio that was missing here, Like there are

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Speaker 1: parts where they arrive and the master of this place

630
00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:56,399
Speaker 1: speaks to them, speaks to our heroes, but he's got

631
00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:59,880
Speaker 1: his back turned, and I heard nothing. Yeah. There they

632
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,800
Speaker 1: were a couple of scenes in this where it maybe

633
00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:04,399
Speaker 1: it made me wonder if they didn't get the sound

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00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:07,319
Speaker 1: quality they wanted, or they or they later decided that

635
00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:11,200
Speaker 1: the actual dialogue was unnecessary or perhaps dumb um. There's

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00:35:11,239 --> 00:35:14,799
Speaker 1: a later scene that I particularly remember, where characters are

637
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:18,320
Speaker 1: having a prolonged conversation and there's nothing really visually interesting

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00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:22,239
Speaker 1: going on, but we have music playing over it. So

639
00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:24,520
Speaker 1: it really felt like, well, maybe they didn't get the

640
00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:26,680
Speaker 1: sound they needed on this particular scene, so they're just

641
00:35:26,680 --> 00:35:30,720
Speaker 1: gonna roll some some fabulous disco music on top of it. Yeah,

642
00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:34,200
Speaker 1: no complaints, but Luke has complaints. Luke has complaints about

643
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:38,879
Speaker 1: Rodan's attitude because at this monastery, it's clear that Luke

644
00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:42,440
Speaker 1: is fully committed to attaining the highest level of martial

645
00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:46,839
Speaker 1: arts mastery. He's he's on the ball, but Rodan, he

646
00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:49,960
Speaker 1: is distracted. His head is elsewhere. His head is all

647
00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:53,759
Speaker 1: clogged up with the lingering frustrations of New York and

648
00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:57,400
Speaker 1: UH and sort of stresses and maybe desires for vengeance.

649
00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:01,319
Speaker 1: And so after he reached is the highest level of

650
00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:05,759
Speaker 1: physical prowess, Luke has to bring his mind to the

651
00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:09,040
Speaker 1: same level of transcendence, which they say is achieved by

652
00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:11,640
Speaker 1: sending him off to meditate in a special place in

653
00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:16,279
Speaker 1: the wilderness while his specially chosen favorite keeps guard over him.

654
00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:18,640
Speaker 1: And he chooses Rodan, and that does not seem like

655
00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:21,240
Speaker 1: a good choice. So while Luke is in a trance

656
00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:26,000
Speaker 1: achieving higher levels of spirituality, Rodan being Rodan, wanders off

657
00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:28,440
Speaker 1: and gets into trouble instead. And so what he does

658
00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:31,919
Speaker 1: is he wanders into a cave and oh no, it's

659
00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:34,239
Speaker 1: a cave of forgotten demons, it's the cave from the

660
00:36:34,239 --> 00:36:36,960
Speaker 1: beginning of the movie. And he finds a secret amulet,

661
00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:40,160
Speaker 1: snatches it, runs off, and then it's pretty much back

662
00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:42,520
Speaker 1: to New York. Yeah, yeah, right back into They fly

663
00:36:42,640 --> 00:36:44,879
Speaker 1: back and they've they've got they've got business to take

664
00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:48,320
Speaker 1: care of, and they're out to do it. But we

665
00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:52,600
Speaker 1: we immediately see the evil that seeps from this ancient

666
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:55,640
Speaker 1: sarcophagus in the cave now that it's not being contained

667
00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:57,880
Speaker 1: by the power of the amulet, because the removal of

668
00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:01,080
Speaker 1: the amulet has of course released to the monster from

669
00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:04,680
Speaker 1: the cage, and we we get a montage where the

670
00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:08,480
Speaker 1: demon now travels to New York. I was wondering at first, like, wait,

671
00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:11,000
Speaker 1: why does the demon travel to New York? But maybe

672
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:13,680
Speaker 1: he's he's after the amulet? Is that how you so

673
00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:15,960
Speaker 1: he will he must want the ammulet, like maybe he

674
00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:19,200
Speaker 1: thinks he can destroy the amulet. The film doesn't quite

675
00:37:19,239 --> 00:37:22,280
Speaker 1: explain it, but it's it's what's happening. But the demon

676
00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:25,160
Speaker 1: travels by. So first he's got he does appear to

677
00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:27,800
Speaker 1: have like a bodily form. He's not just like a ghost,

678
00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:30,359
Speaker 1: because you see he's got these hands with claws as

679
00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:32,960
Speaker 1: he's crawling up out of the water. But then he

680
00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:36,080
Speaker 1: possesses somebody and doesn't have a body anymore. He just

681
00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:40,239
Speaker 1: possesses a guy's body, and it's his boat passenger. Yeah,

682
00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:43,160
Speaker 1: just a Chinese businessman who seems to be out doing

683
00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:46,239
Speaker 1: his own thing, and now the demon is inside him.

684
00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:48,480
Speaker 1: And now it's time for the demon to take this

685
00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:52,400
Speaker 1: fleshly vessel, get on another vessel and travel to New

686
00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:55,160
Speaker 1: York as well. Right, So maybe he picked this guy

687
00:37:55,160 --> 00:37:57,239
Speaker 1: because this guy had a ticket to travel to New

688
00:37:57,320 --> 00:38:00,000
Speaker 1: York by boat. Yeah, which is traveling to New yor

689
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:02,480
Speaker 1: work by both. That's a long trip. Yeah. Oh. But

690
00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:05,680
Speaker 1: also when the man becomes possessed by the demon, the

691
00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:08,960
Speaker 1: way they signal that is it gives him these huge,

692
00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:12,440
Speaker 1: wild white eyes with tiny pupils. It looks kind of

693
00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:14,959
Speaker 1: to me like they cut out wedges of ping pong

694
00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:18,400
Speaker 1: balls and and taped them over the actor's eyes. Do

695
00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:20,799
Speaker 1: you think that's what they're doing here. It's either that

696
00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:23,680
Speaker 1: or they had him click keep his eyes closed, and

697
00:38:23,719 --> 00:38:26,880
Speaker 1: they painted his lids white and put the black peoples

698
00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:30,960
Speaker 1: on them. Um, both of these are ridiculous directions to

699
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:34,360
Speaker 1: go in and it looks somewhat goofy, but also, I

700
00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:38,640
Speaker 1: don't know, somewhat effective within the context of this particular film. Yes,

701
00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:41,040
Speaker 1: and so when they get to when the Demon gets

702
00:38:41,080 --> 00:38:43,640
Speaker 1: to New York, the guy immediately scrambles down into the

703
00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:46,880
Speaker 1: subway tunnels. This is where his home is now and

704
00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:49,839
Speaker 1: it's where he will remain for the rest of the film. Now,

705
00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:52,439
Speaker 1: back with our characters like Luke and Rodan, we see

706
00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:55,120
Speaker 1: we see Rodan getting into more and more trouble. He's

707
00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:58,360
Speaker 1: getting mixed up with double dealings, with drugs, with money

708
00:38:58,440 --> 00:39:01,880
Speaker 1: and gangs. And Rodan ends up with a thirst for

709
00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:06,640
Speaker 1: vengeance after he is robbed by one of the Chinese gangs. Meanwhile,

710
00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:09,520
Speaker 1: they have they talk about it and Luke chides him

711
00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:13,120
Speaker 1: for basically for messing around with this low life stuff.

712
00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:15,680
Speaker 1: He's very clear, Luke is like, this is not what

713
00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:18,759
Speaker 1: martial arts is about. Yeah, and so the movie is

714
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:22,520
Speaker 1: projecting this sort of Jedi Sith vision of martial arts.

715
00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:25,000
Speaker 1: You can be like a you can be a good

716
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:27,520
Speaker 1: martial artist. You can be a bad martial artist. And

717
00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:30,360
Speaker 1: if you're bad, that's not real martial arts. It's no

718
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:35,600
Speaker 1: true scotsman about martial arts. Yeah, Luke Is is practicing

719
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:41,160
Speaker 1: martial arts almost um, just for itself. You know, He's

720
00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:44,520
Speaker 1: he's practicing it because martial arts is like the path

721
00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:48,040
Speaker 1: to enlighten it, whereas Rodan he sees it as the

722
00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:51,360
Speaker 1: as a means of of kicking butt and advancing in

723
00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:56,759
Speaker 1: whatever criminal pursuit he's he's wandering into petty vengeance, etcetera.

724
00:39:57,120 --> 00:39:59,840
Speaker 1: Right now, in the meantime, we get a demon transformation

725
00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:03,440
Speaker 1: scene that I had high hopes for this. It was okay,

726
00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:08,279
Speaker 1: it wasn't it wasn't crazy good. I thought it exceeded expectations. Okay, okay,

727
00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:10,839
Speaker 1: I mean do you work for me. I mean it's

728
00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:14,400
Speaker 1: poorly lit. It's in the subway, and his body just

729
00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:18,400
Speaker 1: goes super gross and starts sort of crumbling and rotting

730
00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:22,680
Speaker 1: and he becomes this this rotten, gooey skeleton man in

731
00:40:22,719 --> 00:40:26,160
Speaker 1: the subways. Yeah, so he bleeds. He first he bleeds

732
00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:28,960
Speaker 1: red blood, then he bleeds green blood. Then he tears

733
00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:32,040
Speaker 1: holes in his own torso, and then the transformation takes

734
00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:35,319
Speaker 1: I wonder if the demon had higher hopes for for

735
00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:37,879
Speaker 1: New York City, you know, like he moved to New

736
00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:40,080
Speaker 1: York in the form of a businessman. He thought he

737
00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:42,600
Speaker 1: was gonna ascend in the world. He was gonna rise up,

738
00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:45,040
Speaker 1: He's gonna be living in one of those skyscrapers making

739
00:40:45,080 --> 00:40:47,640
Speaker 1: big deals. But it just didn't work out that way,

740
00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:50,640
Speaker 1: and instead here he is rotting in the subway. That's

741
00:40:50,760 --> 00:40:52,719
Speaker 1: he goes down to the tunnels. He's like, all right,

742
00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:55,200
Speaker 1: ready for deals, and then he's looking around. He's like,

743
00:40:55,239 --> 00:40:57,840
Speaker 1: where are the deals. He's trying to make deals with rats,

744
00:40:57,880 --> 00:41:01,520
Speaker 1: He's trying to make deals with discarded you know, coffee cups,

745
00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:04,279
Speaker 1: and it's not working out. So he's like, oh, to

746
00:41:04,360 --> 00:41:07,200
Speaker 1: hell with this and just transforms. Yeah, He's like, I

747
00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:09,680
Speaker 1: guess I'll just do more killings. Now Here, we get

748
00:41:09,719 --> 00:41:11,759
Speaker 1: into a part of the movie where there are some

749
00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:16,200
Speaker 1: street fight scenes where Rodan and his friends confront a

750
00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:20,040
Speaker 1: rival gang in an alley, and uh, this New York

751
00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:24,960
Speaker 1: City street fight does involve swords, which is good choice. Yeah,

752
00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:27,279
Speaker 1: I mean the swords, but also also some just really

753
00:41:27,320 --> 00:41:29,879
Speaker 1: impressive kicks, Like I don't know that I would really

754
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:33,680
Speaker 1: hold this up as an example of great martial arts choreography.

755
00:41:33,719 --> 00:41:36,400
Speaker 1: But it it looks pretty good. There's some really high kicks,

756
00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:40,240
Speaker 1: I mean rolled In and and Warhawk Tanzania. They can

757
00:41:40,280 --> 00:41:42,879
Speaker 1: they can really do it. Yeah. Now, at some point

758
00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:46,160
Speaker 1: in the middle of the fight the rival gang, they

759
00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:49,719
Speaker 1: see that Rodan has this amulet he's hanging on a

760
00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:52,760
Speaker 1: necklace around his neck, and one of the guys sees

761
00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:55,480
Speaker 1: that and then they're just like oh no, and they bolt.

762
00:41:56,200 --> 00:41:59,120
Speaker 1: And I guess this suggests they are aware of its

763
00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:03,480
Speaker 1: association with the indescribable evil that will turn your blood green. Yeah,

764
00:42:03,640 --> 00:42:06,319
Speaker 1: it seems to be the case. I also wonder if

765
00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:08,480
Speaker 1: if the Demon's arrival in New York, if it has

766
00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:12,440
Speaker 1: somehow had this effect on the surface world here, like

767
00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:15,319
Speaker 1: there's more conflict because the demon is present, you know,

768
00:42:15,719 --> 00:42:19,440
Speaker 1: oh yeah, getting into a vego of the Carpathian situation again. Yeah,

769
00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:21,600
Speaker 1: maybe it's kind of a Ghostbusters thing going on, Yeah,

770
00:42:21,920 --> 00:42:25,399
Speaker 1: making everybody mean Yeah. But here we reached the part

771
00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:27,920
Speaker 1: of the movie where it's cop time. So remember the

772
00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:31,000
Speaker 1: cop who was training with Luke earlier, Well, it seems

773
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:34,120
Speaker 1: like he is a He is a grimy, chain smoking detective.

774
00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:36,840
Speaker 1: I think his first lines or some one of the

775
00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:38,680
Speaker 1: first things he says when we meet him again later

776
00:42:38,719 --> 00:42:41,200
Speaker 1: in the movie is something about how he's like drowning

777
00:42:41,239 --> 00:42:44,680
Speaker 1: in alimony payments and and what do you know, He's

778
00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:47,520
Speaker 1: got a new partner. He has a new partner who

779
00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:50,359
Speaker 1: the guy you called a lug heead. But I could

780
00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:52,000
Speaker 1: be wrong, but I think the way you're supposed to

781
00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:55,040
Speaker 1: read him is he is a nerdy, sort of by

782
00:42:55,080 --> 00:42:58,680
Speaker 1: the book academic criminology type who doesn't know anything about

783
00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:01,920
Speaker 1: the real world. Okay, it could it could could be

784
00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:05,239
Speaker 1: the game. Okay, but I got say, Officer Christopher is

785
00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:08,959
Speaker 1: Noah Harley Stone. Uh. But he does end up taking

786
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:11,600
Speaker 1: it too personal, though I guess not as personal as

787
00:43:11,640 --> 00:43:14,680
Speaker 1: as the ultimate hero of the film, who of course

788
00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:17,840
Speaker 1: is Luke. But so they're called into solve a murder.

789
00:43:17,880 --> 00:43:20,280
Speaker 1: There has been a gruesome killing in the subway tunnels.

790
00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:22,520
Speaker 1: They say, oh, it looks like he got caught in

791
00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:26,120
Speaker 1: a meat grinder, and there's immediately a reporter on the

792
00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:29,879
Speaker 1: case trying to pride details out of Christopher Christopher, and

793
00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:32,960
Speaker 1: Christopher insists that he has a theory about who the

794
00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:34,799
Speaker 1: killer is, which is not true at all, and he

795
00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:38,959
Speaker 1: admits to his partner when the reporter leaves. But after

796
00:43:39,040 --> 00:43:41,000
Speaker 1: this we get a sense of the demons m O.

797
00:43:41,239 --> 00:43:43,840
Speaker 1: Because we watch him kill a guy. So there's a

798
00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:46,560
Speaker 1: guy who wanders down into the subway tunnels wearing a

799
00:43:46,560 --> 00:43:51,560
Speaker 1: plaid blazer, and then the demon, in a monotone voice, says,

800
00:43:51,640 --> 00:43:54,920
Speaker 1: helped me. It's dark in here, I'm stuck. And the

801
00:43:55,120 --> 00:43:58,000
Speaker 1: guy in the plaid blazers like, oh, someone needs help,

802
00:43:58,120 --> 00:44:00,759
Speaker 1: and he wanders off into the tunnel help them, and

803
00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:04,120
Speaker 1: then munch. Yeah, so we were learning that our demon

804
00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:07,840
Speaker 1: here isn't just a monster that grabs people or a

805
00:44:07,880 --> 00:44:12,960
Speaker 1: monster that possesses people. He's also a master of illusion.

806
00:44:13,040 --> 00:44:17,240
Speaker 1: Perhaps he's a deceiver. His his illusions at the climax

807
00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:19,200
Speaker 1: of the film are much better than the illusion here.

808
00:44:19,239 --> 00:44:22,000
Speaker 1: This is just a monotone voice saying things in a

809
00:44:22,040 --> 00:44:25,960
Speaker 1: way that sounds totally implausible, saying help me, I am trapped.

810
00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:29,960
Speaker 1: Later in the movie, he can fully transform into other people. Yeah, yeah, well,

811
00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:32,000
Speaker 1: maybe he's still growing in power at this point. You know,

812
00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:34,960
Speaker 1: he's still absorbing the the the energy of New York

813
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:38,359
Speaker 1: City and transforming it into his own evil. Right. So

814
00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:41,680
Speaker 1: immediately there is a second subway victim. The detectives are

815
00:44:41,719 --> 00:44:45,560
Speaker 1: back on the case. The new partner is is vomiting

816
00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:48,160
Speaker 1: at the side of the carnage on the tracks. But

817
00:44:48,880 --> 00:44:51,040
Speaker 1: this was the part we're talking about with the conspiracy theories.

818
00:44:51,320 --> 00:44:53,799
Speaker 1: The new partner he's got, he's got something to share

819
00:44:53,840 --> 00:44:58,080
Speaker 1: with the reporter, and it's this, basically, all the animals

820
00:44:58,120 --> 00:45:02,359
Speaker 1: that live in the sewers, including cat, rats, dogs, maybe alligators,

821
00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:05,680
Speaker 1: have mutated and come up into the subway tunnels to

822
00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:09,279
Speaker 1: attack and eat people. And this seems to be an

823
00:45:09,280 --> 00:45:12,480
Speaker 1: obsession of this characters of Doctor Criminology here because in

824
00:45:12,560 --> 00:45:15,640
Speaker 1: multiple later scenes in the movie, he's explaining about how

825
00:45:15,680 --> 00:45:18,200
Speaker 1: the sewers have alligators that are twice the size of

826
00:45:18,239 --> 00:45:21,359
Speaker 1: normal alligators with fangs that will chop a man's leg

827
00:45:21,520 --> 00:45:24,880
Speaker 1: right off, and they're they're cats and dogs and rats

828
00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:28,440
Speaker 1: that survived by cannibalism down there, and it's just yet

829
00:45:28,560 --> 00:45:33,880
Speaker 1: fastered into this unnatural subworld environment and that's what's eating people.

830
00:45:34,120 --> 00:45:36,759
Speaker 1: He's like regaling the all the people hanging out at

831
00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:39,959
Speaker 1: the bar where where Luke and Rodan hang out with

832
00:45:39,960 --> 00:45:42,040
Speaker 1: with these theories later in the movie, and they seem

833
00:45:42,120 --> 00:45:53,040
Speaker 1: quite entertained. You know. I will say the middle third

834
00:45:53,080 --> 00:45:55,600
Speaker 1: of the movie does not have enough war Hawk Tanzania

835
00:45:55,640 --> 00:45:59,000
Speaker 1: in it. It's all it's mostly Rodan doing his gang

836
00:45:59,080 --> 00:46:02,680
Speaker 1: fights and then the cops investigating murders. Now, did we

837
00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:05,160
Speaker 1: mention the long scene? It just shows like a day

838
00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:08,680
Speaker 1: in the life and love of war Hock Tanzania's character, Luke. Oh,

839
00:46:08,719 --> 00:46:10,960
Speaker 1: we didn't. But it's very sweet. It's got a good soundtrack,

840
00:46:11,040 --> 00:46:13,000
Speaker 1: and it's just showing him I guess with his his

841
00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:15,279
Speaker 1: wife or I'm not quite sure who she was, his

842
00:46:15,320 --> 00:46:18,200
Speaker 1: wife or his girlfriend. Um, and it just shows them

843
00:46:18,280 --> 00:46:21,680
Speaker 1: like eating together and hanging out and it's it seems great.

844
00:46:21,719 --> 00:46:24,799
Speaker 1: There's one scene I think they're eating scrambled eggs with chopsticks.

845
00:46:25,160 --> 00:46:27,840
Speaker 1: Yes they are. Yeah, that's great. So you can reflect

846
00:46:27,880 --> 00:46:30,160
Speaker 1: on this sequence when you're stuck in the part of

847
00:46:30,160 --> 00:46:33,720
Speaker 1: the movie where there's little to no war, right, that's true.

848
00:46:34,320 --> 00:46:37,040
Speaker 1: But eventually we get back on track when Detective Christopher

849
00:46:37,120 --> 00:46:40,680
Speaker 1: Christopher concludes that the murders may have something to do

850
00:46:40,719 --> 00:46:44,880
Speaker 1: with Luke's school uh and when he approaches him about

851
00:46:44,880 --> 00:46:48,040
Speaker 1: the idea and about working together, Luke does not want

852
00:46:48,080 --> 00:46:51,239
Speaker 1: anything to do with it, again, re establishing this theme,

853
00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:55,000
Speaker 1: this dynamic that Luke from the movie's point of view,

854
00:46:55,120 --> 00:46:58,320
Speaker 1: Luke is clearly lawful, good, but he also wants nothing

855
00:46:58,360 --> 00:47:00,640
Speaker 1: to do with the police there. You know, they're they're

856
00:47:00,640 --> 00:47:04,879
Speaker 1: portrayed as a dirty, corrupt organization. Yeah, yeah, there's there's

857
00:47:04,880 --> 00:47:07,560
Speaker 1: at least one line there where they're the characters are

858
00:47:07,600 --> 00:47:11,120
Speaker 1: concerned that the heat's gonna come down and that the

859
00:47:11,120 --> 00:47:14,120
Speaker 1: police are just gonna come in indiscriminately with shotguns. You know.

860
00:47:14,800 --> 00:47:17,399
Speaker 1: So I think Luke has legitimate concerns here. He doesn't

861
00:47:17,400 --> 00:47:20,279
Speaker 1: want any part of that world. Right. So meanwhile, the

862
00:47:20,320 --> 00:47:23,600
Speaker 1: subway Monster mallings and the rod In gang fights continue.

863
00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:27,759
Speaker 1: These two plot lines converge when Rodin becomes outnumbered in

864
00:47:27,800 --> 00:47:30,920
Speaker 1: a gang fight, runs down a subway tunnel to escape,

865
00:47:31,239 --> 00:47:34,040
Speaker 1: and there the demon kills him by shoving his face

866
00:47:34,080 --> 00:47:37,360
Speaker 1: into some kind of electrical panel, which fries him. Yeah.

867
00:47:37,400 --> 00:47:40,200
Speaker 1: I mean, Rodin has been really thrown down with some

868
00:47:40,239 --> 00:47:44,120
Speaker 1: amazing kicks, uh, you know, taken on multiple guys at once.

869
00:47:44,480 --> 00:47:46,319
Speaker 1: But the Monster just gets the drop on him and

870
00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:48,839
Speaker 1: just fries his face. But it's a great sequence though,

871
00:47:48,840 --> 00:47:50,760
Speaker 1: because you see him like grab his throat, you see

872
00:47:50,960 --> 00:47:55,680
Speaker 1: his face twist into this this strange expression. And then

873
00:47:55,800 --> 00:47:57,799
Speaker 1: later when we see his corpse. We we see like

874
00:47:57,840 --> 00:48:00,319
Speaker 1: a like fried Rodin, like they did some sort of

875
00:48:00,320 --> 00:48:03,680
Speaker 1: a crude but effective makeup job. Oh yeah, yeah, they

876
00:48:04,200 --> 00:48:07,560
Speaker 1: really do show him cooked. So when Luke sees this,

877
00:48:07,719 --> 00:48:10,080
Speaker 1: he is enraged and he thinks it was the work

878
00:48:10,120 --> 00:48:12,600
Speaker 1: of the Red Dragon Gang and he goes on a

879
00:48:12,680 --> 00:48:15,799
Speaker 1: martial arts rampage to meet their leader and find out

880
00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:19,279
Speaker 1: what happens. So there's another street fight scene. Uh, this

881
00:48:19,360 --> 00:48:21,239
Speaker 1: fight scene where he goes and he fights some of

882
00:48:21,239 --> 00:48:24,239
Speaker 1: the members of the gang. The opponents are mostly wearing

883
00:48:24,320 --> 00:48:26,120
Speaker 1: jeans and T shirts. But I gotta point out in

884
00:48:26,160 --> 00:48:30,359
Speaker 1: this scene, Warhawk Tanzania is dressed awesomely. He's wearing these

885
00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:34,879
Speaker 1: amazing like shiny gold pants with flared legs. Yeah yeah,

886
00:48:35,560 --> 00:48:37,839
Speaker 1: Now is this the costume that he also wears into

887
00:48:37,840 --> 00:48:41,400
Speaker 1: the final fight. I was actually wondering about that. In

888
00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:43,480
Speaker 1: the final fight when he goes to confront the demon,

889
00:48:43,719 --> 00:48:47,600
Speaker 1: he's not wearing a shirt. He's just wearing gold suspenders.

890
00:48:48,200 --> 00:48:50,359
Speaker 1: And they might they're the same kind of color as

891
00:48:50,480 --> 00:48:52,880
Speaker 1: the ones in the scene, but they might be different.

892
00:48:52,920 --> 00:48:57,279
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. At anyway, he's he's always dressed fabulously. Uh.

893
00:48:57,520 --> 00:48:59,520
Speaker 1: He goes into a fight knowing that he needs to

894
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:03,400
Speaker 1: you know, he needs to hit hard physically but also

895
00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:06,200
Speaker 1: from a fashion standpoint. So after he goes to fight

896
00:49:06,200 --> 00:49:08,520
Speaker 1: the Red Dragons, they explained to him that they did

897
00:49:08,600 --> 00:49:12,080
Speaker 1: not in fact kill Rodan, and they take Luke to

898
00:49:12,320 --> 00:49:14,960
Speaker 1: a wise old man who will explain to the to

899
00:49:15,040 --> 00:49:19,080
Speaker 1: him the truth about the amulet and the demon. And uh,

900
00:49:19,239 --> 00:49:21,840
Speaker 1: I don't know that. It was hard to tell, but

901
00:49:21,920 --> 00:49:25,480
Speaker 1: this wise old man either has some major makeup on

902
00:49:25,520 --> 00:49:28,360
Speaker 1: his face or it's a person in a mask. Yeah,

903
00:49:28,360 --> 00:49:30,640
Speaker 1: and I was left wondering if this was in fact

904
00:49:30,719 --> 00:49:35,520
Speaker 1: the mysterious Iron Priest Tanzania. Then we encountered. I'm not sure,

905
00:49:36,200 --> 00:49:38,040
Speaker 1: but in any right, Yeah, this is the scene where

906
00:49:38,080 --> 00:49:41,799
Speaker 1: the wise old man explains what's happening to our our

907
00:49:41,840 --> 00:49:46,040
Speaker 1: heroes and sets them on the course towards the defeat

908
00:49:46,040 --> 00:49:49,440
Speaker 1: of evil. So it goes like this. The old man says,

909
00:49:49,880 --> 00:49:54,400
Speaker 1: two thousand years ago, the sorcerer Master Longtime would allow

910
00:49:54,560 --> 00:49:57,960
Speaker 1: some men to be possessed by demons, and these he

911
00:49:57,960 --> 00:50:02,799
Speaker 1: would use to terrorize villages in cities. Master Cheong Dao

912
00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:05,840
Speaker 1: produced the amulet in which he trapped the spirit of

913
00:50:05,840 --> 00:50:09,040
Speaker 1: the demon. And this is the amulet your friend took

914
00:50:09,480 --> 00:50:12,400
Speaker 1: this monster is released into the world. As long as

915
00:50:12,440 --> 00:50:15,799
Speaker 1: the Amulet exists, the demon is deprived of most of

916
00:50:15,880 --> 00:50:19,120
Speaker 1: his power. Even though he is still strong, he is

917
00:50:19,239 --> 00:50:22,359
Speaker 1: unable to tolerate And I think what he says here

918
00:50:22,480 --> 00:50:25,080
Speaker 1: is light. But for the longest time, I thought he

919
00:50:25,120 --> 00:50:28,520
Speaker 1: said flight, and I was I was just baffled, trying

920
00:50:28,560 --> 00:50:31,399
Speaker 1: to understand that that's the boat. Yeah, but I mean

921
00:50:31,440 --> 00:50:33,319
Speaker 1: it made sense because he took the boat and he's

922
00:50:33,360 --> 00:50:35,880
Speaker 1: unable to tolerate flight. And then he goes on to say,

923
00:50:35,960 --> 00:50:38,200
Speaker 1: that is why your subways are a perfect place for

924
00:50:38,280 --> 00:50:40,279
Speaker 1: him to hide. But he's got a mean light, right,

925
00:50:40,280 --> 00:50:42,319
Speaker 1: I think that is what he says. Yeah, I can't

926
00:50:42,320 --> 00:50:45,280
Speaker 1: tolerate the tolerate the light. That's why he's in the subways.

927
00:50:45,320 --> 00:50:47,279
Speaker 1: But all this with the Amulet makes sense now. He

928
00:50:47,320 --> 00:50:51,000
Speaker 1: followed the Amulet to the United States because he wants

929
00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:52,880
Speaker 1: to destroy the Annual. Its the only way that he

930
00:50:52,880 --> 00:50:56,920
Speaker 1: can achieve his maximum power. Huh. And when he finishes

931
00:50:56,960 --> 00:51:00,400
Speaker 1: the explanation, Luke reacts, he says, in my head, story

932
00:51:00,440 --> 00:51:03,280
Speaker 1: is fantastic, But in my heart, I know you're speaking

933
00:51:03,320 --> 00:51:06,360
Speaker 1: the truth. So I think we're also to understand that

934
00:51:06,440 --> 00:51:10,520
Speaker 1: Luke has Luke has powerful intuitions, right, he did an

935
00:51:10,520 --> 00:51:14,680
Speaker 1: intuition check on that story, and yeah, he nailed it.

936
00:51:15,040 --> 00:51:17,160
Speaker 1: What kind of check is that? Is that insight he

937
00:51:17,280 --> 00:51:20,120
Speaker 1: rolled the wisdom wisdom modifier? Yeah, yeah, that would be

938
00:51:20,239 --> 00:51:22,359
Speaker 1: that would be inside. So we learned from the old

939
00:51:22,360 --> 00:51:24,640
Speaker 1: Man that the demon will stop at nothing to regain

940
00:51:24,640 --> 00:51:27,400
Speaker 1: this amulet. By destroying it, he will be free, forever,

941
00:51:27,600 --> 00:51:34,160
Speaker 1: immortal and indestructible. Whoa uh so, Luke. Luke immediately admits

942
00:51:34,239 --> 00:51:37,520
Speaker 1: that he feels personally responsible for unleashing the demon in

943
00:51:37,600 --> 00:51:41,280
Speaker 1: the world because he took Rodan with him on the trip,

944
00:51:41,400 --> 00:51:44,200
Speaker 1: and Rodan was the one who stole the amulet. And

945
00:51:44,239 --> 00:51:46,120
Speaker 1: so there's only one way to fix it. It's got

946
00:51:46,120 --> 00:51:49,000
Speaker 1: to be a one on one showdown. Luke must defeat

947
00:51:49,040 --> 00:51:52,360
Speaker 1: the demon in single combat, and if he loses, the

948
00:51:52,440 --> 00:51:55,760
Speaker 1: demon will eat his soul. Do you think the demon

949
00:51:55,960 --> 00:51:58,280
Speaker 1: ate the souls of the other people are just killed them.

950
00:51:58,280 --> 00:52:02,799
Speaker 1: It's a good question. Unless he's a fast eater. I

951
00:52:02,840 --> 00:52:05,040
Speaker 1: think maybe he skipped on eating some of the souls.

952
00:52:05,160 --> 00:52:07,120
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I'm not sure exactly how this

953
00:52:07,160 --> 00:52:09,359
Speaker 1: demon consumes the souls. It's say, maybe it's just an

954
00:52:09,360 --> 00:52:13,239
Speaker 1: automatic effect that takes place whenever he murders somebody. So

955
00:52:13,360 --> 00:52:15,839
Speaker 1: Luke has warned that the demon is going to try

956
00:52:15,880 --> 00:52:18,680
Speaker 1: to attack his mind, assuming the forms of those he

957
00:52:18,760 --> 00:52:21,439
Speaker 1: loves most and those he fears most. He will use

958
00:52:21,520 --> 00:52:24,160
Speaker 1: every trick in the book, the old Man says, And

959
00:52:24,239 --> 00:52:27,680
Speaker 1: he says that while Luke is fighting, he will uh,

960
00:52:28,080 --> 00:52:30,520
Speaker 1: he will help Luke by he says, I will place

961
00:52:30,600 --> 00:52:33,680
Speaker 1: my mind with yours. Perhaps together we will be stronger

962
00:52:33,719 --> 00:52:36,960
Speaker 1: than one. Yeah, so this is so we're setting up

963
00:52:36,960 --> 00:52:41,720
Speaker 1: the ultimate battle here, good versus evil warhawk Tanzania against

964
00:52:41,719 --> 00:52:46,120
Speaker 1: an ancient demon in New York City subway tunnels. Um,

965
00:52:46,200 --> 00:52:48,600
Speaker 1: it's this is what we've been working for. This is

966
00:52:48,600 --> 00:52:51,479
Speaker 1: what the trailer promised us, right, And so the next

967
00:52:51,480 --> 00:52:54,360
Speaker 1: scene is very funny. This is when we alluded to earlier.

968
00:52:54,800 --> 00:52:57,440
Speaker 1: It's it. On one hand, you've got the foreground action,

969
00:52:57,480 --> 00:53:00,719
Speaker 1: which is Luke is arguing with Officer Christopher that he

970
00:53:00,760 --> 00:53:02,640
Speaker 1: has to go down into the subway and fight the

971
00:53:02,680 --> 00:53:07,640
Speaker 1: demon and uh, and Christopher disagrees. Meanwhile, right next to them,

972
00:53:07,840 --> 00:53:11,439
Speaker 1: I think this is theater Gottli, Right. So he's out

973
00:53:11,440 --> 00:53:14,399
Speaker 1: preaching a street sermon about how all your gods are

974
00:53:14,440 --> 00:53:17,879
Speaker 1: dead and the rats are shrieking. Yeah, it's pretty great

975
00:53:17,880 --> 00:53:20,800
Speaker 1: because he's I think he's saying something like like Jesus

976
00:53:20,880 --> 00:53:25,000
Speaker 1: Christ is dead, Buddha is dead, and then he ends

977
00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:27,280
Speaker 1: with something I think he says, and I'm not feeling

978
00:53:27,320 --> 00:53:32,440
Speaker 1: so great myself. How did that connect to the thing

979
00:53:32,480 --> 00:53:36,279
Speaker 1: about the rats shrieking? I don't know, I don't know.

980
00:53:36,360 --> 00:53:39,000
Speaker 1: It's it's his presence in this film is so weird

981
00:53:39,080 --> 00:53:42,319
Speaker 1: because it makes you wonder how it came together, how

982
00:53:42,360 --> 00:53:45,839
Speaker 1: they how they got him for this, what they told

983
00:53:45,920 --> 00:53:49,920
Speaker 1: him to do, Like it totally works, improved, it does

984
00:53:49,960 --> 00:53:52,919
Speaker 1: seem improved, and it's it adds to just the overall weird.

985
00:53:52,960 --> 00:53:56,160
Speaker 1: It seems right that there should be somebody in the film,

986
00:53:56,680 --> 00:53:59,239
Speaker 1: uh like, ranting about what's going on below, Like it

987
00:53:59,320 --> 00:54:02,040
Speaker 1: seems it feels appropriately New York, you know, like this

988
00:54:02,120 --> 00:54:05,280
Speaker 1: is this is some some well injected New York weirdness

989
00:54:05,280 --> 00:54:07,880
Speaker 1: into this motion picture that would be a good bumper sticker.

990
00:54:07,920 --> 00:54:10,320
Speaker 1: Though all your gods are dead and the rats are shrieking.

991
00:54:12,360 --> 00:54:16,000
Speaker 1: The poetry of this movie. Yeah, so I think while

992
00:54:16,480 --> 00:54:19,880
Speaker 1: Christopher is distracted, Luke defies the police order goes on

993
00:54:19,960 --> 00:54:23,759
Speaker 1: down anyway, because you know, he doesn't obey a man's law.

994
00:54:24,320 --> 00:54:27,600
Speaker 1: And he goes on down carrying the amulet, and the

995
00:54:27,640 --> 00:54:29,759
Speaker 1: confrontation of the Demon happens. And it's kind of like

996
00:54:29,800 --> 00:54:32,799
Speaker 1: at the end of the first Mortal Kombat game, you know,

997
00:54:32,840 --> 00:54:36,520
Speaker 1: where the boss is transforming into all the other fighters

998
00:54:36,520 --> 00:54:39,319
Speaker 1: you fought along the way. The Demon takes the but

999
00:54:39,400 --> 00:54:41,400
Speaker 1: also the Demon takes the form of people he loves.

1000
00:54:41,400 --> 00:54:43,760
Speaker 1: So the Demon appears in the form of his wife,

1001
00:54:43,840 --> 00:54:46,440
Speaker 1: in the form of the police, in the form of Rodan,

1002
00:54:46,920 --> 00:54:49,279
Speaker 1: and in the form of a train. Yeah, it is.

1003
00:54:49,320 --> 00:54:50,880
Speaker 1: It is kind of like the ye the Battle of

1004
00:54:50,920 --> 00:54:52,920
Speaker 1: San Sung at the end of the first Mortal Combat.

1005
00:54:53,080 --> 00:54:56,480
Speaker 1: Creatures taken on all these forms and and I, depending

1006
00:54:56,480 --> 00:54:58,520
Speaker 1: on the shot, looks pretty good. I think in some

1007
00:54:58,560 --> 00:55:02,240
Speaker 1: of these these scenes, like the it's your costume. Clearly

1008
00:55:02,280 --> 00:55:05,440
Speaker 1: this was not it's not a Tom Tom Savini joint

1009
00:55:05,480 --> 00:55:08,120
Speaker 1: here or anything, but you get it into an actual

1010
00:55:08,200 --> 00:55:11,120
Speaker 1: New York City subway tunnel, and I feel like you're

1011
00:55:11,239 --> 00:55:14,279
Speaker 1: lighting limitations probably do some of the work for you. Yeah,

1012
00:55:14,280 --> 00:55:16,640
Speaker 1: when we see him in full form, the Demon is

1013
00:55:16,680 --> 00:55:19,800
Speaker 1: a kind of skull beast from the Black Lagoon. He

1014
00:55:20,320 --> 00:55:23,760
Speaker 1: has uh sort of a skull outside of his skull,

1015
00:55:23,840 --> 00:55:26,719
Speaker 1: would you say, Yeah, he's kind of like imagine a

1016
00:55:26,719 --> 00:55:31,200
Speaker 1: a skeleton made entirely of cartilage that then was swollen

1017
00:55:31,360 --> 00:55:34,719
Speaker 1: with the corruption and evil. Uh you know this very

1018
00:55:34,920 --> 00:55:39,359
Speaker 1: um you know nerdalsome kind of body to him. Yeah. Yeah, uh.

1019
00:55:39,440 --> 00:55:41,160
Speaker 1: Now we'll leave it up to you to guess whether

1020
00:55:41,160 --> 00:55:44,920
Speaker 1: Warholck Tanzani is is victorious and defeating the demon or not.

1021
00:55:45,360 --> 00:55:48,320
Speaker 1: But one thing that happens after this is we after

1022
00:55:48,400 --> 00:55:50,480
Speaker 1: the final fight, we I think, go to the hospital

1023
00:55:51,000 --> 00:55:53,239
Speaker 1: and they're in the hospital. There's a scene that I

1024
00:55:53,280 --> 00:55:55,640
Speaker 1: think is meant to convey a sort of like harmony

1025
00:55:55,760 --> 00:55:59,360
Speaker 1: has been achieved between or the factions and gangs that

1026
00:55:59,400 --> 00:56:01,960
Speaker 1: have been ang at each other earlier. It is such

1027
00:56:02,000 --> 00:56:04,719
Speaker 1: a sweet, dumb ending because yeah, you have you have

1028
00:56:04,920 --> 00:56:08,279
Speaker 1: the police hanging out, you have Warhawk Tanzania, You've got

1029
00:56:08,320 --> 00:56:12,680
Speaker 1: members of both gangs. Everybody has come together. The supernatural

1030
00:56:12,760 --> 00:56:16,439
Speaker 1: evil has been defeated and and everyone has been able

1031
00:56:16,480 --> 00:56:20,239
Speaker 1: to unify. Martial arts has brought people together, and it's

1032
00:56:20,239 --> 00:56:22,400
Speaker 1: going to be a new dawn in New York City.

1033
00:56:22,800 --> 00:56:24,920
Speaker 1: I like it. And then over the end of credits,

1034
00:56:25,000 --> 00:56:27,719
Speaker 1: you see the old man from earlier taking the amulet

1035
00:56:27,719 --> 00:56:30,040
Speaker 1: out to see he goes on a boat. I'm not

1036
00:56:30,040 --> 00:56:31,920
Speaker 1: sure what he's gonna do with it. Is the implication

1037
00:56:31,960 --> 00:56:34,200
Speaker 1: that he'll he'll like throw it in the ocean or something.

1038
00:56:34,400 --> 00:56:37,160
Speaker 1: I thought maybe he was taking it back to China. Oh,

1039
00:56:37,239 --> 00:56:38,680
Speaker 1: that would make sense to put it back in the

1040
00:56:38,719 --> 00:56:41,759
Speaker 1: cave where it came from, I guess, and hopefully, but

1041
00:56:41,840 --> 00:56:45,680
Speaker 1: we're hopefully hide it somewhere better. Otherwise another road roadan

1042
00:56:45,800 --> 00:56:47,520
Speaker 1: is going to show up and just wander into the

1043
00:56:47,560 --> 00:56:49,759
Speaker 1: cave and make off with it. That cave was way

1044
00:56:49,800 --> 00:56:53,600
Speaker 1: too close to the monastery. Yeah, and sadly we're not.

1045
00:56:53,680 --> 00:56:55,200
Speaker 1: I was hoping they would tell us at the end,

1046
00:56:55,600 --> 00:57:00,520
Speaker 1: Warhawk Tanzania will return in Warhawk Tanzania, you know, like

1047
00:57:00,520 --> 00:57:03,040
Speaker 1: like I wanted more the promise of more war Hack

1048
00:57:03,080 --> 00:57:05,359
Speaker 1: Tanzania at the end, or that you know, at least

1049
00:57:05,400 --> 00:57:08,960
Speaker 1: that Luke would be back. But uh, sadly it did

1050
00:57:09,000 --> 00:57:11,359
Speaker 1: not come to pass. Don't be sad that it's over.

1051
00:57:11,480 --> 00:57:14,040
Speaker 1: Be glad that it happened. Yeah. Yeah, in a way,

1052
00:57:14,120 --> 00:57:18,560
Speaker 1: like the stars aligned perfectly on this um Uh. The

1053
00:57:18,560 --> 00:57:20,920
Speaker 1: the the interview that I read with will Fredo, one

1054
00:57:20,920 --> 00:57:22,600
Speaker 1: of the things that he pointed out, is that he

1055
00:57:22,640 --> 00:57:24,520
Speaker 1: was in some of these films and then he realized

1056
00:57:24,560 --> 00:57:26,600
Speaker 1: that it was just gonna be a real struggle to

1057
00:57:26,640 --> 00:57:29,400
Speaker 1: make any money, to make a living doing this, and

1058
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Speaker 1: that's why he got He became a teacher, you know,

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Speaker 1: both in the New York school system, but then also

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Speaker 1: as a as a martial arts instructor. And so you know,

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Speaker 1: one imagines that that that's probably something like that happened

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Speaker 1: with war Hock Tanzania as well. The man behind the

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Speaker 1: myth uh, you know, moved on to something more mundane

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Speaker 1: and maybe something more satisfying um or again, Warhock Tanzania

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Speaker 1: continued the battle and it's still battling today, fighting all

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Speaker 1: the various demons in the world and their various subworld

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Speaker 1: layers and uh and and protecting the surf this world

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Speaker 1: from absolute chaos. Well, wherever he is, I hope he's

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Speaker 1: doing great. If you're listening, email us. Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know, no joking, he was. He's terrific in this

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Speaker 1: I I love war Hawk Tanzania. Uh really delivers in

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Speaker 1: this film. Alright, So you're probably wondering where can I

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Speaker 1: get some war Hawk Tanzania. Where can I watch Devil's Express. Well,

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Speaker 1: I think the first place I saw this film, like

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Speaker 1: we're first caught my attention that I saw it on

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Speaker 1: Amazon Prime. I think it's still on Prime. You might

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Speaker 1: have to like rent it through Prime. But the full

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Speaker 1: film is also widely available on YouTube. You can find

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Speaker 1: it on to Be as well. And then also we

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Speaker 1: mentioned the Blu ray from Code Red. Uh, there's a

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Speaker 1: blu ray of the film that's that's available. It's that

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Speaker 1: he uses a two thousand, sixteen two K scan of

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Speaker 1: the original negative. So that's pretty cool. Viewer discretion is advised. Yes, definitely, definitely.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, we're gonna go ahead and a close

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Speaker 1: close the book on this one. We're gonna go ahead

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Speaker 1: and and restore the Amulet to its subterranean crypt. But

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Speaker 1: if you would like to listen to other episodes of

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Speaker 1: Weird House Cinema, you will find them in the Stuff

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Speaker 1: House Cinema on Fridays, but our normal science episodes are

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Speaker 1: Core episodes are on Tuesdays and Thursday's Listener Mail on

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Speaker 1: Monday's and on an episode of the Artifact on Wednesdays. Uh.

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Speaker 1: You can find the podcast feed wherever you get your podcast,

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Speaker 1: but you can also go to stuff to Blow your

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Speaker 1: I Heart listing for this page, and if you look

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Speaker 1: around on that page, there's also a store button. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And indeed, if you go to the store now as

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Speaker 1: of this recording, you can get a sticker or a

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Speaker 1: I hope very soon that there will be a T

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Speaker 1: the time this episode airs, maybe maybe there'll be a shirt,

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Speaker 1: but there at least will be a sticker or a

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Speaker 1: magnet you can get. Huge thanks as always to our

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