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Speaker 1: Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. Rewind.

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Speaker 2: This is Rob Lamb and I'm Joe McCormick, and today

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Speaker 2: we're bringing you an older episode of Weird House Cinema.

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Speaker 2: This was our look at Creature with the Adam Brain,

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Speaker 2: prominently featured in one of my favorite Rocky Ericson songs.

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Speaker 2: Creature with the Adam Brain came out in nineteen fifty five.

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Speaker 2: In this episode, originally published on July seventh, twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's jump right in.

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Speaker 3: Welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind, a production of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 1: Hey you, welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is Rob Lamb.

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Speaker 2: And this is Joe McCormick, and today we're going to

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Speaker 2: be covering a movie from the nineteen fifties about evil

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Speaker 2: scientists who want to use long distance electrodes to power

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Speaker 2: the brain of dead men to do their bidding. No,

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Speaker 2: not Plan nine from Outer Space, Not The Bride of

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Speaker 2: the Monster. It's another movie with a very similar premise.

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Speaker 2: This was sort of in the air. Apparently, this is

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Speaker 2: nineteen fifty five's Creature with the Atom Brain.

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Speaker 1: Which has always been a confusing title because I think

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Speaker 1: for a while I even just would read it as

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Speaker 1: creature with the atomic brain, because what would adam brain

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Speaker 1: even mean other than possibly super small brain.

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Speaker 2: Obviously, Yeah, it seems like an advance on the insult

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Speaker 2: pea brain. You know, you go down to pe brain

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Speaker 2: and then what's below that atom brain?

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Speaker 1: I guess, Yeah, but no, it's it's essentially in the

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Speaker 1: same vein as atomic brain. But yeah, but not only

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Speaker 1: is this like perhaps an idea of a reduced brain,

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Speaker 1: also reduced runtime. This one comes in at a slim

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Speaker 1: sixty nine minutes. The one of the reasons we picked

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Speaker 1: it for this week was that we had a super

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Speaker 1: long movie last week and we had a short week

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Speaker 1: this week, so it seemed like a good time to

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Speaker 2: Sixty nine minutes, that's I don't know, that's kind of

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Speaker 2: Attack of the Crab Monster is more like sixty three.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Some of those Corman and cormanqu pictures come in

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Speaker 1: shorter now. The other fun thing about this pick is

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Speaker 1: that it inspired a Rocky Ericsson song. Rocky Erickson was

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Speaker 1: a if not the Texan psychedelic rocker who lived nineteen

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Speaker 1: and so it's kind of a treat to get to

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Speaker 1: I think another one we've talked about is possibly nineteen

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Speaker 1: fifty nine's The Alligator People. But yeah, today's movie inspired

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Speaker 1: the Rocky ericson track of the same name, Creature with

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Speaker 1: the Adam, which you can find on the nineteen eighty

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Speaker 2: I first heard this album, I'm pretty sure in the

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Speaker 2: summer between my freshman and sophomore year of college. I

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Speaker 2: one of my favorite albums of all time, though it's

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Speaker 2: one that I think is apparently not for everybody. I

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Speaker 2: thought it was just great, But I took The Evil

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Speaker 2: Roll Records, every two Headed Dog, The Wind and More,

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Speaker 2: Bloody Hammer, Cold Night for Alligators, Night of the Vampire,

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Speaker 2: Creature with the Adam Brain, the hits never stop.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you You originally turned me on to

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Speaker 1: They're they're pretty often pretty hard hitting songs. There's pretty

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Speaker 2: But I want to say that while a number of

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Speaker 2: songs on this fantastic album, the album is very monster

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Speaker 2: The Alligator People, there's a song on there called It's

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Speaker 2: But anyway, so a lot of these other songs, the

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Speaker 1: Giant Cricket. I like them too a lot. Yeah, so

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Speaker 1: other interviews where he goes into it more. But there

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Speaker 1: You know, there are some moments that are far creepier

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Speaker 1: referenced in Rocky's song, is using super science to compel

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Speaker 1: and I don't know, I kept coming back to that

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Speaker 2: time watching this, but I don't think it is top

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Speaker 2: having interesting science fiction premises or in human drama, any

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Speaker 2: in terms of excesses of cheese, Like it's not in

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Speaker 1: So anyway, it'd be interesting to keep all this in mind.

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Speaker 1: And again we also have to drive home. You don't

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Speaker 1: made it into a great song. So there you go.

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Speaker 2: as the Giant Cricket. And you think that might be

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Speaker 2: Beginning of the end if that is correct. Beginning of

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Speaker 2: the End is a bird Eye Gordon film.

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Speaker 1: something else that could be classified as the Giant Cricket.

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Speaker 1: But this is the main one I came across, and

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Speaker 1: it seems to be in that sweet spot of fifties

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Speaker 2: This is the one, doesn't it have? Like one of

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Speaker 1: All right, well, elevator pitch for the creature with the

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Speaker 1: Popular Science Magazine, June nineteen fifty five, The Horror Movie.

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Speaker 2: You know, I've got another take on it. So if

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Speaker 2: Edward originally sold Bride of the Monster as Bride of

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Speaker 2: the Atom, this is like they're exploring more stuff in

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Speaker 2: how about entry level employee of the Atom? And I

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, let's go ahead and listen to that

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Speaker 4: Fish and science creates an electronic monster so terrifying only

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Speaker 4: screams can describe it. Come back home, Come back home.

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Speaker 4: According to the evidence, Fanny was murdered by a creature

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Speaker 1: His name is Willard Pierce.

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Speaker 4: Finals petty theft for three months in prison to prcule.

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Speaker 4: How could to burcular men I have strength enough to

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Speaker 1: Do you think that's something?

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Speaker 2: Answer this one? How could a dead man have strength

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Speaker 1: Fantastic? But based on scientific fact.

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Speaker 2: Please hello, your flight.

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Speaker 4: You will stop all planes and trucks searching for radio activity.

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Speaker 4: If you do not, many people will be killed.

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Speaker 2: There will be no other war. Hello, Hello, Hello, they

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Speaker 1: Before I put the trace wrong.

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Speaker 4: Slow down, Dave, Dave, Now the killed him.

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Speaker 1: There you go. Based on scientific fact. This is a

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Speaker 1: This is a film that that screams to be viewed.

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Speaker 2: This is hard science, hard science. This is like it's

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Speaker 2: like Asimov.

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Speaker 1: All right, if you're before we go any further, if

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Speaker 1: if if you would like to watch this movie before

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Speaker 2: You can.

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Speaker 1: You might catch a stream or two here or there,

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Speaker 1: up some physical media. There are a couple of nice

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Speaker 1: collections that include it. One is the four DVD pack

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Speaker 1: Icons of Horror collection Sam Katzman, which you can buy

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Speaker 1: wherever you get your discs, that features the Giant Claw

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Speaker 1: Creature with the Adam Brain, Zombies of Mara Tao, and

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Speaker 1: the Werewolf. Arro Video also put these four movies out

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Speaker 1: on Blu Ray in the set titled Cold War Creatures

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Speaker 1: for Films from Sam Katzman, and I included a picture

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Speaker 1: of the whole spread. Here, Joe, this one looks really nice.

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Speaker 1: This is not how we watched it, but this will

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Speaker 1: Our star is Richard Dinnon playing doctor chet Walker. Dinning

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Speaker 1: they're they're kind of all over each other.

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Speaker 2: They are, And she also like she's really keeping up

434
00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:38,239
Speaker 2: with the news and with the caper, because there are

435
00:24:38,359 --> 00:24:44,520
Speaker 2: multiple points where like she reveals a detail to one

436
00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:47,119
Speaker 2: of the investigators or even to the bad guy in

437
00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:50,440
Speaker 2: the form of an adam brain zombie who is sitting

438
00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:53,680
Speaker 2: in her living room playing with her child that ends

439
00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:54,679
Speaker 2: up moving the plot.

440
00:24:55,320 --> 00:24:58,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so I think that's a good point. Yeah,

441
00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:02,920
Speaker 1: she's not nearly as minimal a presence as you might

442
00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:05,639
Speaker 1: find the hero's wife in many of these films from

443
00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:09,359
Speaker 1: the nineteen fifties and so forth. All Right, our movie

444
00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:12,640
Speaker 1: does have a German mad scientist, and it is doctor

445
00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:18,280
Speaker 1: Wilhelm Steig played by Gregory Gay who lived nineteen hundred

446
00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:21,280
Speaker 1: through nineteen ninety three. He was a Russian born actor

447
00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:25,560
Speaker 1: who left after the nineteen seventeen October Revolution. His first

448
00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:29,040
Speaker 1: screen role was an uncredited role as an officer in

449
00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:32,520
Speaker 1: John Barrymore's nineteen twenty eight silent movie about the final

450
00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:36,800
Speaker 1: days of Czarist Russia, Tempest, but he went on to bigger,

451
00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:40,879
Speaker 1: small roles, bigger supporting roles, often playing Russians or Germans,

452
00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:44,159
Speaker 1: often playing diplomats. I think he even shows up on

453
00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:46,760
Speaker 1: the sixties Batman series at one point playing a Russian

454
00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:51,040
Speaker 1: diplomat uncredited. Some of his more visible roles include a

455
00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:54,280
Speaker 1: bit part of a German banker in nineteen forty two's Casablanca,

456
00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:58,560
Speaker 1: a casino owner in nineteen sixties Oceans eleven, and he

457
00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:01,760
Speaker 1: also pops up in nineteen sixty one's Blue Hawaii. This

458
00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:05,399
Speaker 1: starred Elvis and was filmed at the hotel from Death Moon,

459
00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:08,520
Speaker 1: the Coco Palms Resort.

460
00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:11,160
Speaker 2: It just occurred to me, I can't believe they never

461
00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:14,439
Speaker 2: made an Elvis werewolf movie. Can you imagine how he

462
00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:15,199
Speaker 2: could howl?

463
00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:18,679
Speaker 1: Oh man? Yeah? Off the top of my head. I

464
00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:20,800
Speaker 1: don't yeah, I don't think any Elvis movies get into

465
00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:25,679
Speaker 1: horror sci fi, they're all they're all based more in

466
00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:29,679
Speaker 1: just kind of teeny boppy comedy and drama.

467
00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:33,879
Speaker 2: Elvis Presley starring in The Werewolf of Makeout Beach.

468
00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:37,320
Speaker 1: It would have been good. All right. We have another

469
00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:40,119
Speaker 1: villain in this and it is Frank Buchanan. This is

470
00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:45,000
Speaker 1: the character whose name is reference in the Rocky Ericson song.

471
00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:48,840
Speaker 1: This character is played by Michael Granger, who lived nineteen

472
00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:52,439
Speaker 1: twenty three through nineteen eighty one. He is our and

473
00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:54,280
Speaker 1: we'll have to come back to this. I guess he's

474
00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:59,840
Speaker 1: our deported American mobster who was wandering around Europe, found

475
00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:03,000
Speaker 1: alf a German mad scientist, and now has returned to

476
00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:06,320
Speaker 1: seek vengeance on both sides of the law with super science.

477
00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:09,919
Speaker 2: How does one like acquire so you need a doctor

478
00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:13,400
Speaker 2: Fritz to make zombies for you? How do you acquire one?

479
00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:16,680
Speaker 1: You just you. I took it to be like the

480
00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:19,680
Speaker 1: situation where he found this guy. He started financing his work,

481
00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:23,560
Speaker 1: and then you know, once you've been financed by someone

482
00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:25,240
Speaker 1: like this, after a while, you know what they're gonna do.

483
00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:27,040
Speaker 1: They're like, it's time to move this project back to

484
00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:30,960
Speaker 1: the States and begin the next phase, which is Project Vengeance,

485
00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:33,120
Speaker 1: Project Personal Vendetta.

486
00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:33,919
Speaker 2: Okay.

487
00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:37,480
Speaker 1: Now, Granger is pretty interesting because he's an American actor

488
00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:40,920
Speaker 1: of stage and screen who mostly worked small parts on

489
00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:43,720
Speaker 1: the on the screen in the likes of nineteen fifty

490
00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:46,679
Speaker 1: three's The Big Heat and the Magnetic Monster, one of

491
00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:50,840
Speaker 1: only a handful of movies that Kurt siat Meca actually directed,

492
00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:54,480
Speaker 1: as well as nineteen fifty eight Murder by Contract. But

493
00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:57,439
Speaker 1: he was also very active on Broadway and was in

494
00:27:57,480 --> 00:28:01,680
Speaker 1: the original Broadway run of Fiddler on the Roof. Oh

495
00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:03,560
Speaker 1: now it's been It's been a long time since I've

496
00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:04,879
Speaker 1: seen Fiddler on the Roof. I think I saw it

497
00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:07,920
Speaker 1: as a child, so I haven't watched it in a while.

498
00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:11,760
Speaker 1: But he plays a character the butcher named Lazarre Wolf.

499
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:16,639
Speaker 1: Not laser Wolf, I assume, but Lazarre Wolf. And this

500
00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:19,000
Speaker 1: would have been from like nineteen sixty four through nineteen

501
00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:19,520
Speaker 1: seventy two.

502
00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:23,399
Speaker 2: Oh wow, you know, I do remember it being emphasized

503
00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:26,440
Speaker 2: as laser Wolf. Really, I don't. I don't know if

504
00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:30,160
Speaker 2: that's how they would actually say it in Russia, but

505
00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:32,679
Speaker 2: I remember it like scans that way for the lines

506
00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:36,240
Speaker 2: in some of the songs. Wolf is the so the

507
00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:41,200
Speaker 2: oldest daughter, Zetol, is engaged to laser wolf but she

508
00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:45,160
Speaker 2: doesn't love him. She loves what's his name the other

509
00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:47,920
Speaker 2: I think Muttle the tailor. And so there's this whole

510
00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:51,960
Speaker 2: like like, Teva wants to find a way to get

511
00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:56,080
Speaker 2: his daughter out of that engagement so she can marry

512
00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:58,000
Speaker 2: the guy she really loves, and so he has to

513
00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:00,440
Speaker 2: come up with this scheme where he may up a

514
00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:05,880
Speaker 2: dream with a bad omen where where Laser Wolfe's wife

515
00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:08,600
Speaker 2: will come back as a wraith. And do you remember

516
00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:09,000
Speaker 2: any of this?

517
00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:11,920
Speaker 1: No, man, I don't remember it wraiths or anything. Yeah,

518
00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:14,600
Speaker 1: it's I just remember. I literally just remember the same

519
00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:17,320
Speaker 1: there's there's someone does sing on a roof, right or

520
00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:19,600
Speaker 1: is that a fabricated memory plays a fiddle on a roof.

521
00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:21,400
Speaker 1: That's okay, that's the part I remember.

522
00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:24,280
Speaker 2: No, Okay, well, yeah I remember. It's actually a great subplot.

523
00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:26,520
Speaker 2: So basically, the guy he wants his daughter to be

524
00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:28,800
Speaker 2: able to marry the guy she loves instead of the

525
00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:31,120
Speaker 2: guy she's engaged to, and in order to do so,

526
00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:33,680
Speaker 2: he makes up a fake death omen dream.

527
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Speaker 1: Hm hmm, okay, I really need to I need to

528
00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:39,160
Speaker 1: see it again. That's it? Or I almost see it

529
00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:43,440
Speaker 1: for the first time. Anyway, Granger, I really liked him

530
00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:46,000
Speaker 1: in this. He has a voice that's just as smooth

531
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:49,880
Speaker 1: as crushed velvet, and he gives way more charisma to

532
00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:52,640
Speaker 1: this role than I think anyone was asking of him.

533
00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:54,920
Speaker 1: He's he's quite good. I don't want to take anything

534
00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:57,520
Speaker 1: away from Dinning, because again, he's he's solid, hits all

535
00:29:57,560 --> 00:30:00,600
Speaker 1: the right notes. But Granger brings that nice bit of

536
00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:03,560
Speaker 1: something extra to the role, Like the dialogue is already

537
00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:06,840
Speaker 1: nice and snappy, but he breathes just a little extra

538
00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:11,720
Speaker 1: malice and machination into everything, which is especially potent when

539
00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:15,520
Speaker 1: he is speaking into the minds of the dead or

540
00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:19,840
Speaker 1: through the dead, because I think if memory serves the

541
00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:22,880
Speaker 1: voice we hear come out of most of the walking

542
00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:25,960
Speaker 1: dead the Atom creatures is the voice of Granger, the

543
00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:30,480
Speaker 1: voice of Buchanan, and Yeah, it's eerie and effective.

544
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:36,360
Speaker 2: Yeah. Later they upgrade their technology so that the Adam

545
00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:39,400
Speaker 2: Brain zombies can speak with their own voice, but they

546
00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:41,840
Speaker 2: only do that for day if I think.

547
00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:45,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, which is I think more plot oriented than anything

548
00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:46,360
Speaker 1: we'll get into the end of Dave.

549
00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:49,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know exactly how it works that when

550
00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:54,480
Speaker 2: the earlier ones talk they speak with Buchanan's voice because

551
00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:56,840
Speaker 2: they would still be using their vocal cords, but I

552
00:30:56,840 --> 00:30:58,040
Speaker 2: don't know. Yeah.

553
00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:01,680
Speaker 1: Now, special effects, which I guess they're not that impressive

554
00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:04,920
Speaker 1: in this particular film, are worth noting here just because

555
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:08,040
Speaker 1: they're by Jack Erickson, who lived nineteen eleven through nineteen

556
00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:11,240
Speaker 1: seventy eight, special effects guy who worked with Ray Harryhusen

557
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:14,320
Speaker 1: the same year on It Came from Beneath the Sea,

558
00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:17,040
Speaker 1: which was also part of the double feature with this

559
00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:17,760
Speaker 1: very film.

560
00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:19,280
Speaker 2: That's right. Yeah.

561
00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:23,400
Speaker 1: Ericson also has a special effects credit on the Galaxy

562
00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:26,880
Speaker 1: Being episode of the classic Outer Limits series. That episode

563
00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:30,440
Speaker 1: starred Cliff Robertson, but more notable than Robertson, it featured

564
00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:32,880
Speaker 1: one of the series more memorable aliens. This was this

565
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:37,080
Speaker 1: kind of like weirdly glowing creature that. Yeah, if you

566
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:39,640
Speaker 1: go back and watch any Outer Limits episode from this

567
00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:42,120
Speaker 1: time period, that's the one to check out, because the

568
00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:43,600
Speaker 1: creature absolutely pops.

569
00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:47,959
Speaker 2: Galaxy Being. I can't help but imagine that title inspired

570
00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:52,000
Speaker 2: the title of the later Don Dollar film Galaxy Invader.

571
00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:57,960
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, absolutely absolutely it did. Love Galaxy Invader. That

572
00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:00,360
Speaker 1: one's good, all right. Finally, just a note on the

573
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:03,920
Speaker 1: music here, it's all stock music, so there's somebody to

574
00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:07,719
Speaker 1: single out here, just all stock music. Nothing remarkable about it. Now,

575
00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:10,800
Speaker 1: all right, well, shall we get into the plot.

576
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:14,680
Speaker 2: Let's do it. You know what, quite strong opening. In fact,

577
00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:18,720
Speaker 2: I would say I think the best looking shot in

578
00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:22,960
Speaker 2: the film is the very opening shot. So we come

579
00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:25,480
Speaker 2: up on a kind of a silent alley way in

580
00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:28,160
Speaker 2: the night time, with trees and shrubbery crowding in on

581
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:32,360
Speaker 2: both sides, and then in the background, in the distance

582
00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:35,600
Speaker 2: in the shot, there is moonlight pouring in from above

583
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:39,360
Speaker 2: in a kind of shaft, and that moonlight is falling

584
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:43,440
Speaker 2: on the dark shape of a man shambling slowly toward

585
00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:47,600
Speaker 2: the camera as nothing but a heartbeat pounds on the soundtrack,

586
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:50,200
Speaker 2: and then the credits roll as he wanders in our direction.

587
00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:52,000
Speaker 2: It's very very strong opening.

588
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:55,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, it doesn't waste any time. You know, it's screaming,

589
00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:59,360
Speaker 1: get kids, stop making out and watch your I guess

590
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:00,959
Speaker 1: second help of the double feature.

591
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:03,720
Speaker 2: But as I said, I don't think any other shot

592
00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:08,000
Speaker 2: in the movie is as artistically composed as this one is.

593
00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:10,000
Speaker 2: This is the best looking thing we're going to get

594
00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:14,960
Speaker 2: now with my post. George Romero expectations. I thought this

595
00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:18,040
Speaker 2: was going to be a decaying zombie coming toward us

596
00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:21,960
Speaker 2: because of his shambling gait. But no, it is a

597
00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:24,800
Speaker 2: man in a suit and a tie who looks actually

598
00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:28,520
Speaker 2: pretty normal, except his expression is sort of vacant. He

599
00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:33,680
Speaker 2: is a stocky, square featured fellow. He walks like right

600
00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:36,000
Speaker 2: up in our faces. And then the next thing we

601
00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:39,640
Speaker 2: see is him driving a four door sedan around some

602
00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:42,400
Speaker 2: kind of winding mountain roads. So I was thinking, wait

603
00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:44,720
Speaker 2: a minute, is he a zombie or not? Because zombies,

604
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:49,760
Speaker 2: as generally understood cannot operate motor vehicles, with the exception,

605
00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:52,800
Speaker 2: of course, of Jason Vorhees and Jason takes Manhattan, because

606
00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:55,920
Speaker 2: I stand by my assertion that Jason does drive the boat.

607
00:33:56,760 --> 00:33:58,960
Speaker 1: Well, as we'll learn, this is a special kind of zombie.

608
00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:01,800
Speaker 1: This is a super science zombies, so maybe different rules apply.

609
00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:05,200
Speaker 2: Right. So the zombie non zombie guy, whatever he is,

610
00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:08,239
Speaker 2: he parks his car beside a street lamp outside some

611
00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:12,719
Speaker 2: large building that rob I wonder, what did you initially

612
00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:14,960
Speaker 2: think this building was? I was like, okay, is he

613
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:18,600
Speaker 2: at like city hall or a nice hotel or something.

614
00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:22,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, it looked a like more official like that. I

615
00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:23,799
Speaker 1: was a little surprised when it turned out to be

616
00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:28,000
Speaker 1: more of a like a criminal underworld location as opposed

617
00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:32,280
Speaker 1: to anything concerning like the you know, the city government.

618
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:34,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought, maybe, oh, maybe this is a bank,

619
00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:37,880
Speaker 2: but I think it's supposed to be a casino and

620
00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:41,040
Speaker 2: maybe like an illegal underworld casino. So I don't know

621
00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:44,680
Speaker 2: why it's so fancy looking, but yeah, So he gets

622
00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:47,640
Speaker 2: out of the car, he shambles towards the building. Inside

623
00:34:47,680 --> 00:34:51,799
Speaker 2: we see cashiers closing up money changing stations, and then

624
00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:55,000
Speaker 2: we see a lackey in a tuxedo taking a bag

625
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:58,520
Speaker 2: of money into a spacious office decorated with nick knacks

626
00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:01,960
Speaker 2: like there's a big Easter island head And this is

627
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:05,040
Speaker 2: the office of mister Hennessy, who is the number one

628
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:08,280
Speaker 2: head guy in charge of this hotel city Hall casino.

629
00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:10,960
Speaker 2: The lackey reports that the take for the night was

630
00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:15,320
Speaker 2: twenty grand. Hennessy seems pleased with this, and Hennessy opens

631
00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:17,600
Speaker 2: up his wall safe and starts counting the money and

632
00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:21,640
Speaker 2: narrating into his dictaphone as he does so. And interestingly,

633
00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:26,040
Speaker 2: he's not counting in terms of he's not like counting

634
00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:29,560
Speaker 2: the money. He is counting the numbers of individual bills.

635
00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:32,759
Speaker 2: So he's like, this many hundred dollar bills, this many

636
00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:38,600
Speaker 2: fifty dollars bills. Is that normal criminal behavior? I don't know. Meanwhile,

637
00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:42,840
Speaker 2: outside the window, the zombie driver keeps staggering toward the building,

638
00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:47,120
Speaker 2: and then we see through the zombie's eyes, and then

639
00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:51,440
Speaker 2: there's an interesting transition. We see through his eyes on

640
00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:55,280
Speaker 2: a TV screen on screen. So now we're somewhere else

641
00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:58,399
Speaker 2: in a laboratory. They make it easy to know where

642
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:02,480
Speaker 2: you are by like having electrodes emit zapping sounds. And

643
00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:07,200
Speaker 2: there's a TV showing the zombies eye view, and there

644
00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:10,120
Speaker 2: are two guys watching it. You've got a stout gangsters

645
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:14,840
Speaker 2: gangster looking man in a suit and a bespectacled scientist

646
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:17,319
Speaker 2: in a white lab coat. And the gangster guy is

647
00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:20,920
Speaker 2: holding a microphone up to his mouth while the scientist

648
00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:25,040
Speaker 2: is fiddling with knobs. Back at the casino, the zombie

649
00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:28,799
Speaker 2: bends the bars outside the window to Hennessy's office. He

650
00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:31,080
Speaker 2: just you know, grabs him with his hands, bends him back,

651
00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:34,640
Speaker 2: and then smashes through the glass. He actually basically he

652
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:37,880
Speaker 2: just like flathand outward pushes through the window.

653
00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:43,280
Speaker 1: There are numerous stunts where like a sort of roundish

654
00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:47,640
Speaker 1: man goes through a plate of glass glass window in

655
00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:49,279
Speaker 1: this movie. And I was looking at some of the

656
00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:52,640
Speaker 1: stunt players and one of the guys did this I think,

657
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:55,040
Speaker 1: pretty much the same stunt in The Wizard of Oz

658
00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:58,440
Speaker 1: as the Cowardly Lion. So I guess it was just

659
00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:01,840
Speaker 1: like printed on this guy's business, like you need a

660
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:04,520
Speaker 1: like a slightly rotund actor to go through a window.

661
00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:07,120
Speaker 2: I'm your guy, and I'll do it just by pushing

662
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:08,000
Speaker 2: the glass out.

663
00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:11,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, obviously it's trick glass, but still specialized skill.

664
00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:13,640
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know if I can tell

665
00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:15,880
Speaker 2: trick class just by looking at it. I will assume

666
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:18,880
Speaker 2: this was a safe set. Yeah, but anyway, Yeah, so

667
00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:21,200
Speaker 2: the guy comes through the window. He goes up to Hennessy.

668
00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:24,560
Speaker 2: He says in a in a mechanical voice, I told

669
00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:27,920
Speaker 2: you i'd come back. And here we're getting into one

670
00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:30,880
Speaker 2: of the bits of dialogue that Rocky Ericson just recites

671
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:36,359
Speaker 2: in the song. And the zombie says, remember Buchanan, and

672
00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:40,120
Speaker 2: Hennessy says, but you're not Buchanan. The zombie says, I

673
00:37:40,239 --> 00:37:43,840
Speaker 2: may not look like him, but I am him. Don't

674
00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:47,319
Speaker 2: you recognize the voice, Jim, I promised to see you

675
00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:50,799
Speaker 2: die and I will. Then Hennessy he whips out a

676
00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:53,400
Speaker 2: pistol tries to shoot the zombie, but of course it

677
00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:59,040
Speaker 2: does no good. The zombie grabs Hennessy lifts him up

678
00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:02,760
Speaker 2: over his head and then we see only a shadow

679
00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:06,080
Speaker 2: of the two figures cast upon the wall, and in

680
00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:10,200
Speaker 2: the shadow, the zombie just folds Tennessy like a wallet.

681
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:13,719
Speaker 2: He just snaps him in half backwards like a kitcat

682
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:16,080
Speaker 2: bar crunch. It is brutal.

683
00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:18,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love this. This is a great use of

684
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:24,920
Speaker 1: shadow and implying the physical violence. There's another example of

685
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:26,239
Speaker 1: this later on in the film, but this is the

686
00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:28,799
Speaker 1: best example of it. It just lifts him up in

687
00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:32,359
Speaker 1: a gorilla press and does this backbreaker death move. And

688
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:34,560
Speaker 1: as this was occurring, as he was like setting this up,

689
00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:38,479
Speaker 1: especially where you see an actual zombie grab a good dude,

690
00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:40,799
Speaker 1: grapple him and lift him up, I was like, I

691
00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:44,560
Speaker 1: bet this guy's a wrestler. Sure enough. This role is

692
00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:50,400
Speaker 1: played by former pro wrestler Carl Killer Davis aka Crippler Carl,

693
00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:53,560
Speaker 1: who lived nineteen oh eight through nineteen seventy seven. I

694
00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:55,279
Speaker 1: was not familiar with this guy, but apparently it was

695
00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:57,719
Speaker 1: a big heel in the thirties and forties. He got

696
00:38:57,719 --> 00:39:00,319
Speaker 1: his first acting break playing one of the I think

697
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:03,799
Speaker 1: ten strongmen who opposes Mighty Joe Young in nineteen forty

698
00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:09,040
Speaker 1: nine's Mighty Joe Young, alongside fellow wrestler turned actor Tor Johnson,

699
00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:12,200
Speaker 1: as well as some other big guys like Italian boxer

700
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:17,520
Speaker 1: wrestler of the Day Primo Canara and anyway. This led

701
00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:20,600
Speaker 1: to a whole career of heavy roles for Davis. And

702
00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:22,080
Speaker 1: here he is our zombie.

703
00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:24,759
Speaker 2: He's got a great look for film too, though he's

704
00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:30,239
Speaker 2: got very kind of square head and sharp features. He's good.

705
00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:33,680
Speaker 1: Yeah. Unlike Tor, I think he mostly played like heavies

706
00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:37,560
Speaker 1: and like you know, enforcers and so forth, as opposed

707
00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:38,600
Speaker 1: to outright monsters.

708
00:39:39,239 --> 00:39:43,480
Speaker 2: Wait, this wasn't one of the communist saboteur wrestlers in

709
00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:45,759
Speaker 2: the Mighty Tobar, was it.

710
00:39:46,320 --> 00:39:48,080
Speaker 1: No, that was a different guy. But that was another

711
00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:49,880
Speaker 1: one where you could tell, like the way he was

712
00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:51,560
Speaker 1: I think it was the bumping in that one, Like

713
00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:54,760
Speaker 1: the way he was falling down. You know, he could tell, Okay,

714
00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:56,919
Speaker 1: this guy's a wrestler. He's got to be and you know, sure,

715
00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:59,719
Speaker 1: enough once you know the signs, it's pretty clear.

716
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:04,280
Speaker 2: All right. Well so anyway, after the zombie just breaks

717
00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:07,440
Speaker 2: Tennessee in half like a cracker, Hennessy's goons run in

718
00:40:07,480 --> 00:40:10,600
Speaker 2: the start shooting at the zombie, but he seems unbothered

719
00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:13,279
Speaker 2: by bullets. I think there are some squibs in this

720
00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:14,480
Speaker 2: scene that look pretty good.

721
00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:16,600
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. Yeah, there are a number of effects in

722
00:40:16,640 --> 00:40:19,839
Speaker 1: the film where people are like shooting through zombies, and yeah,

723
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:22,040
Speaker 1: it looks believable. A lot of films would just have

724
00:40:22,239 --> 00:40:25,440
Speaker 1: the maybe you're having the gun actually fire blanks, and

725
00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:26,640
Speaker 1: the rest is just implied.

726
00:40:27,040 --> 00:40:28,799
Speaker 2: It's just a mid shot you don't like see it.

727
00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:31,920
Speaker 2: But this was like you see like these squibs exploding

728
00:40:31,960 --> 00:40:36,960
Speaker 2: out the back of the zombies suit jacket. Yeah, but anyway,

729
00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:38,839
Speaker 2: zombie goes out the window, he gets in the car

730
00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:42,920
Speaker 2: and drives away. Meanwhile, we see back in the laboratory

731
00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:46,319
Speaker 2: where the two guys are watching Zombie ITV. The guy

732
00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:50,800
Speaker 2: holding the microphone starts saying, come back home, come back home.

733
00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:55,600
Speaker 2: So it's clear what's starting to become clear what's going on.

734
00:40:55,680 --> 00:40:59,480
Speaker 2: This is like a remote controlled zombie or somnambulist or

735
00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:02,960
Speaker 2: something here and then there's a kind of funny moment

736
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:06,120
Speaker 2: where the other guy grabs the microphone, like the scientist

737
00:41:06,239 --> 00:41:09,480
Speaker 2: takes it from the gangster guy, and he starts saying

738
00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:12,759
Speaker 2: in a German accent, get in the automobile, Get in

739
00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:18,960
Speaker 2: the automobile, the automobile, get inside. So eventually the zombie obeys,

740
00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:23,080
Speaker 2: and then the gangster guy this is Buchanan, and we

741
00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:25,120
Speaker 2: already know that because he was the one talking through

742
00:41:25,120 --> 00:41:28,960
Speaker 2: the zombie. Remember Buchanan, I am him, and the scientists

743
00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:33,720
Speaker 2: this is doctor Steig. They chatter about how the zombies work.

744
00:41:34,640 --> 00:41:37,479
Speaker 2: Buchanan is afraid that the zombie won't make it back

745
00:41:37,560 --> 00:41:40,719
Speaker 2: because of his gunshot wounds, but Steig says that as

746
00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:42,920
Speaker 2: long as he still has an ounce of fluid in

747
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:46,200
Speaker 2: his body, he'll keep moving. And when these creatures are

748
00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:49,880
Speaker 2: damaged or run low on power, they automatically return to

749
00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:50,920
Speaker 2: the home base.

750
00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:51,560
Speaker 1: Like a room.

751
00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:56,280
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, like that. But there's also you can see

752
00:41:56,320 --> 00:42:01,400
Speaker 2: emerging some conflict between Buchanan and Stig zombie mission control.

753
00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:04,480
Speaker 2: Buchanan is pleased. He's like, all right, that was the

754
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:08,240
Speaker 2: first of them, first of the people on my murder list,

755
00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:10,760
Speaker 2: But there are more we have to send our zombies

756
00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:14,880
Speaker 2: after and then Steig kind of breaks into a lament.

757
00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:17,560
Speaker 2: He's like, oh, you know, I invented these remote control

758
00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:20,799
Speaker 2: zombies hoping that they could be used to help humanity

759
00:42:20,880 --> 00:42:24,400
Speaker 2: because they could do tasks that were dangerous for living workers.

760
00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:27,640
Speaker 2: But now that I'm working with Buchanan, he's like, all

761
00:42:27,680 --> 00:42:31,160
Speaker 2: you want to do is see people die. But Buchanan protests,

762
00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:33,479
Speaker 2: He's like, look, I don't just want to see people die.

763
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:36,839
Speaker 2: I want to see particular people die and I'll get

764
00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:41,560
Speaker 2: them all. After this, Buchanan and Steig go into the

765
00:42:41,600 --> 00:42:45,880
Speaker 2: first of many in the movie almost ritualistic scenes of

766
00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:50,120
Speaker 2: dressing in these lead lined suits with respirator hoses and

767
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:55,439
Speaker 2: crawling through a plastic lined tunnel into the operating room,

768
00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:59,120
Speaker 2: which I think we assume must be flooded with radiation.

769
00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:02,960
Speaker 2: This is kind of the storage room for more zombies

770
00:43:03,080 --> 00:43:06,480
Speaker 2: like our spine cruncher friend, and these are the titular

771
00:43:06,680 --> 00:43:11,239
Speaker 2: creatures with the atom brains. Now, while in the radioactive room,

772
00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:13,880
Speaker 2: they have to decommission a couple of Adam brain dudes

773
00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:19,000
Speaker 2: who have deteriorated beyond use. Because Stig explains, different parts

774
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:22,279
Speaker 2: of the body die at different times and buchanans like,

775
00:43:22,320 --> 00:43:25,560
Speaker 2: does the brain still die first? And Steig says, always,

776
00:43:25,640 --> 00:43:27,720
Speaker 2: the brain always dies first.

777
00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:30,120
Speaker 1: They didn't have an acid vat for this though. This

778
00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:31,919
Speaker 1: would have been a great time to have an acid vat.

779
00:43:32,239 --> 00:43:36,439
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you know you think that the they say

780
00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:40,600
Speaker 2: it so portentously, you almost think that the brain always

781
00:43:40,640 --> 00:43:42,680
Speaker 2: dies first is going to become a plot point. But

782
00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:43,720
Speaker 2: I don't think it does.

783
00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:46,200
Speaker 1: That's I think that this is something we can chalk

784
00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:48,920
Speaker 1: up to, but not only the script of the performances here,

785
00:43:48,920 --> 00:43:51,120
Speaker 1: but there are a lot of lines like this that

786
00:43:51,120 --> 00:43:55,279
Speaker 1: that work far far better than they they probably that

787
00:43:55,320 --> 00:43:57,319
Speaker 1: they could have or certainly should have. You know, it's

788
00:43:57,360 --> 00:44:00,319
Speaker 1: like it this is not an important detail, but you

789
00:44:00,360 --> 00:44:02,560
Speaker 1: know it still kind of zings and sticks with you.

790
00:44:03,120 --> 00:44:05,080
Speaker 1: And I don't think this is Granger speaking this line.

791
00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:07,120
Speaker 1: I think this is this is the doctor.

792
00:44:07,440 --> 00:44:10,240
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, But all right, that's sort of the setup

793
00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:12,239
Speaker 2: for the film. You start to see, like what the

794
00:44:12,280 --> 00:44:16,200
Speaker 2: supernatural or science fiction premises, what comes next in this

795
00:44:16,320 --> 00:44:19,720
Speaker 2: kind of movie. Police arrive on the scene, of course, investigators,

796
00:44:20,680 --> 00:44:23,319
Speaker 2: and one of them is our hero, who seems to

797
00:44:23,360 --> 00:44:28,040
Speaker 2: be I'm going to say that the hero character is

798
00:44:28,080 --> 00:44:30,839
Speaker 2: the product of a compromise in the writer's room. They

799
00:44:30,920 --> 00:44:34,200
Speaker 2: went something like this, It's let's see, should our leading

800
00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:38,360
Speaker 2: man be a cop or a scientist? What if he

801
00:44:38,640 --> 00:44:43,560
Speaker 2: was both? So our hero, Chet Walker is some kind

802
00:44:43,560 --> 00:44:47,120
Speaker 2: of science cop. He is a cop, but he heads

803
00:44:47,200 --> 00:44:51,760
Speaker 2: up a forensic laboratory full of microscopes and glass slides

804
00:44:51,800 --> 00:44:55,440
Speaker 2: and Geiger counters, and he seems to be, I don't know,

805
00:44:55,560 --> 00:44:58,640
Speaker 2: like a mister wizard detective. He's like where the police

806
00:44:59,160 --> 00:45:02,560
Speaker 2: come to console his genius in order to solve murder cases.

807
00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:05,560
Speaker 2: But they also don't just refer evidence to him. He's

808
00:45:05,640 --> 00:45:09,120
Speaker 2: like always first on the scene investigating the crime.

809
00:45:09,600 --> 00:45:12,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is kind of like the nineteen fifties version

810
00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:14,960
Speaker 1: of CSI. I guess you know where you have the

811
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:20,800
Speaker 1: forensic expert. He's also just very, very and perhaps unrealistically

812
00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:23,560
Speaker 1: front and center of any investigation.

813
00:45:31,600 --> 00:45:33,880
Speaker 2: All right, So chet and colleagues are on sen at

814
00:45:33,920 --> 00:45:36,680
Speaker 2: the casino where Hennessy got crunched like a ritz cracker,

815
00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:40,720
Speaker 2: and they discover several interesting things. They say, whoever broke

816
00:45:40,800 --> 00:45:43,440
Speaker 2: in was able to bend back the iron bars outside

817
00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:47,319
Speaker 2: the window with his bare hands. They noticed the perpetrator

818
00:45:47,400 --> 00:45:50,160
Speaker 2: did not bother to steal the money from the safe.

819
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:53,480
Speaker 2: They say he was shot, leaving behind a trail of

820
00:45:53,520 --> 00:45:56,799
Speaker 2: blood and yet was still able to escape, and then

821
00:45:56,880 --> 00:45:59,839
Speaker 2: finally they discovered that his blood, his fingerprints, and his

822
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:04,520
Speaker 2: footprints all glow in the dark. Also in this scene

823
00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:06,799
Speaker 2: there is the beginning of a theme where Chet is

824
00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:10,319
Speaker 2: followed around by a gang of I don't know, like

825
00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:14,000
Speaker 2: five to seven excitable and fairly credulous reporters who are

826
00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:18,000
Speaker 2: all slobbering for a story. And so the reporters are like,

827
00:46:18,040 --> 00:46:20,800
Speaker 2: how did he ben those bars? And Chet says maybe

828
00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:24,840
Speaker 2: he ate all his vitamins, and the reporters like vitamins

829
00:46:26,640 --> 00:46:28,560
Speaker 2: like he thinks, so maybe this is a real scoop.

830
00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:34,000
Speaker 2: I don't know about vitamins vitamins behind iron bar killing,

831
00:46:35,400 --> 00:46:38,480
Speaker 2: I think. In the scene we also meet Chet's friend Dave,

832
00:46:38,600 --> 00:46:41,040
Speaker 2: who is some other kind of cop. Is he supposed

833
00:46:41,080 --> 00:46:44,440
Speaker 2: to be like FBI or something or police captain? He

834
00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:49,080
Speaker 2: seems in some way separate from whatever Chet is.

835
00:46:50,040 --> 00:46:53,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I can never completely nail it down. I

836
00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:56,720
Speaker 1: will throw in that. Dave is played by s John Lonner,

837
00:46:56,760 --> 00:47:00,880
Speaker 1: who lived nineteen through two thousand and six, mostly small roles,

838
00:47:01,239 --> 00:47:05,680
Speaker 1: but appears in Hitchcock's Marnie from sixty four, Mommy dearis

839
00:47:05,719 --> 00:47:08,640
Speaker 1: from eighty one and was also in both The Werewolf

840
00:47:08,640 --> 00:47:11,719
Speaker 1: in fifty six, and I was a teenage Werewolf from

841
00:47:11,719 --> 00:47:12,320
Speaker 1: fifty seven.

842
00:47:13,760 --> 00:47:17,320
Speaker 2: So back at the lab, Chet analyzes the luminous residue

843
00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:19,480
Speaker 2: and the blood left behind at the crime scene. He

844
00:47:19,560 --> 00:47:22,399
Speaker 2: discovers that the blood is not blood at all, it's

845
00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:27,600
Speaker 2: some kind of artificial concoction containing microscopic crystals. And then

846
00:47:27,640 --> 00:47:30,399
Speaker 2: the question is why does it all glow? Well, Chet

847
00:47:30,400 --> 00:47:32,680
Speaker 2: starts holding a Geiger counter up to it and it

848
00:47:32,760 --> 00:47:37,440
Speaker 2: starts it's going nuts. And doctor Walker's like, this so

849
00:47:37,600 --> 00:47:43,520
Speaker 2: called blood is radioactive, Dave says dangerously, So Chet responds,

850
00:47:43,719 --> 00:47:44,600
Speaker 2: plus nine.

851
00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:47,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, didn't throw in like you wouldn't want to be

852
00:47:47,160 --> 00:47:49,200
Speaker 1: around this stuff for long because that's back on the

853
00:47:49,239 --> 00:47:50,719
Speaker 1: desk and kids conversation.

854
00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:55,000
Speaker 2: They just put it on the desk. You keep talking. Yeah, So,

855
00:47:55,480 --> 00:47:58,759
Speaker 2: while leaving the lab, Chet is again intercepted by the reporters.

856
00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:01,920
Speaker 2: They demand a story, and Chet tells them that Hennessy

857
00:48:02,040 --> 00:48:05,400
Speaker 2: was killed by quote, a creature with adam rays of

858
00:48:05,480 --> 00:48:09,680
Speaker 2: superhuman strength and a creature that cannot be killed by bullets,

859
00:48:10,560 --> 00:48:13,560
Speaker 2: and the reporters are angered by this because they think

860
00:48:13,600 --> 00:48:16,040
Speaker 2: he is pulling their leg, and one of the reporters

861
00:48:16,080 --> 00:48:19,880
Speaker 2: threatens to misspell chet Walker's name, which this sent me

862
00:48:19,920 --> 00:48:21,640
Speaker 2: down a rabbit hole of what would be the best

863
00:48:21,680 --> 00:48:27,440
Speaker 2: way to misspell chet Walker. I'm gonna say, like Cheb Wonker.

864
00:48:28,239 --> 00:48:28,520
Speaker 2: M M.

865
00:48:28,640 --> 00:48:30,759
Speaker 1: Yeah. It's a delicate balance because you don't want to

866
00:48:30,760 --> 00:48:33,120
Speaker 1: put anything in the paper that I'll get you in trouble.

867
00:48:33,360 --> 00:48:35,800
Speaker 1: He's got to get it, get it, you know, the

868
00:48:35,880 --> 00:48:39,480
Speaker 1: right level of insulting without being profane. But anyway, I

869
00:48:39,520 --> 00:48:42,120
Speaker 1: like this one little back and forth here because it's like, yeah,

870
00:48:42,120 --> 00:48:43,719
Speaker 1: I'll just tell you straight up what's going on with

871
00:48:43,719 --> 00:48:46,239
Speaker 1: the zombie and dare you to print it? Dare you

872
00:48:46,320 --> 00:48:47,280
Speaker 1: to take me seriously?

873
00:48:48,080 --> 00:48:51,000
Speaker 2: So the next morning, Dave comes to Chet's house and

874
00:48:51,040 --> 00:48:53,400
Speaker 2: he's greeted by Chet's wife, Joyce. This is when we

875
00:48:53,440 --> 00:48:57,080
Speaker 2: first meet Chet's family. We find out he's not just

876
00:48:57,120 --> 00:48:59,520
Speaker 2: any science cop. This is a science cop of the family.

877
00:48:59,600 --> 00:49:01,480
Speaker 2: So he's had a wife named Joyce and a daughter

878
00:49:01,560 --> 00:49:06,359
Speaker 2: named Penny. Penny has a cherished doll named Henrietta, and

879
00:49:06,400 --> 00:49:08,960
Speaker 2: this leads to a weird exchange where Dave, who I

880
00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:12,080
Speaker 2: think is like trying to feed either Penny or the

881
00:49:12,160 --> 00:49:15,960
Speaker 2: Dolls serial. But Dave is like, you know, I used

882
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:18,600
Speaker 2: to go with a girl named Henrietta. And Penny says

883
00:49:18,640 --> 00:49:21,040
Speaker 2: what happened to her? And Dave says, what happened to

884
00:49:21,080 --> 00:49:23,959
Speaker 2: her shouldn't happen to your doll? She married a con man.

885
00:49:26,400 --> 00:49:30,959
Speaker 2: Hey strange, But anyway, this is not a social call.

886
00:49:31,600 --> 00:49:34,520
Speaker 2: Dave is here to discuss work. He has some alarming news.

887
00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:37,360
Speaker 2: They got back a match on the fingerprints found at

888
00:49:37,400 --> 00:49:40,479
Speaker 2: the crime scene. They belonged to a convicted criminal who

889
00:49:40,600 --> 00:49:45,319
Speaker 2: died in jail twenty four days ago. From here we

890
00:49:45,360 --> 00:49:47,600
Speaker 2: go to let's see, it's been a few minutes since

891
00:49:47,600 --> 00:49:48,960
Speaker 2: we had a murder in this movie. We've got to

892
00:49:48,960 --> 00:49:52,279
Speaker 2: have another Adam Brain murder. So now we cut to

893
00:49:52,520 --> 00:49:56,040
Speaker 2: district Attorney McGraw, who we met at the first crime

894
00:49:56,040 --> 00:49:58,360
Speaker 2: scene earlier. I think he had a line that was

895
00:49:58,360 --> 00:50:02,400
Speaker 2: something like, look, just a district attorney, not a chemist.

896
00:50:03,800 --> 00:50:06,319
Speaker 2: McGraw is getting in his car in his garage when

897
00:50:06,360 --> 00:50:09,560
Speaker 2: he is startled by a strange man in a mechanics jumpsuit.

898
00:50:09,560 --> 00:50:11,600
Speaker 2: It looks kind of like Michael Myers without a mask,

899
00:50:12,760 --> 00:50:16,399
Speaker 2: and the man says I'm from Buchanan. If you know that,

900
00:50:16,760 --> 00:50:20,040
Speaker 2: you know why I'm here. It's no use, McGraw. And

901
00:50:20,080 --> 00:50:23,680
Speaker 2: then he reaches into McGrath's car and yanks the steering

902
00:50:23,719 --> 00:50:27,520
Speaker 2: wheel out of its housing, and he says, I said

903
00:50:27,680 --> 00:50:31,200
Speaker 2: I would see you die. I am watching you now.

904
00:50:33,239 --> 00:50:35,760
Speaker 2: I think there's like an implied therefore, like he's saying

905
00:50:36,239 --> 00:50:39,040
Speaker 2: I said I would see you die, I can see

906
00:50:39,080 --> 00:50:41,440
Speaker 2: you now. Therefore you're going to die.

907
00:50:41,840 --> 00:50:44,840
Speaker 1: Well, Buchanan knows he only has so much time to gloat.

908
00:50:44,920 --> 00:50:47,600
Speaker 1: He's got to get to it with this remote death

909
00:50:48,080 --> 00:50:49,400
Speaker 1: via reanimated corpse.

910
00:50:49,760 --> 00:50:53,680
Speaker 2: Right, So this Adam brain lifts McGraw up by the

911
00:50:53,760 --> 00:50:56,759
Speaker 2: neck and then crunches him somehow does another crunchy thing.

912
00:50:57,560 --> 00:51:00,160
Speaker 2: So Chet and Dave arrive at the murder scene in

913
00:51:00,200 --> 00:51:04,799
Speaker 2: the garage, and there is a doctor on site who's like, yes,

914
00:51:04,920 --> 00:51:07,080
Speaker 2: of course, I already gave his wife a sedative. It

915
00:51:07,160 --> 00:51:09,440
Speaker 2: is nineteen fifty five. I know what I'm supposed to do.

916
00:51:10,680 --> 00:51:14,040
Speaker 2: But he also concludes that McGraw was killed by having

917
00:51:14,040 --> 00:51:18,440
Speaker 2: his bones crushed by a single hand. I can deduce

918
00:51:18,480 --> 00:51:21,680
Speaker 2: that by looking at him somehow, And this leads Chet

919
00:51:21,680 --> 00:51:25,080
Speaker 2: and Dave to conclude that it was the same murderer

920
00:51:25,239 --> 00:51:30,040
Speaker 2: as Hennessy. But that doesn't make sense, they say, because

921
00:51:30,080 --> 00:51:33,920
Speaker 2: Hennessy he was some kind of gangland boss and McGraw

922
00:51:34,080 --> 00:51:37,280
Speaker 2: was a district attorney, so that was like cop and criminal.

923
00:51:37,320 --> 00:51:40,759
Speaker 2: They're on opposite sides. How would they share a common enemy. Well,

924
00:51:40,800 --> 00:51:43,960
Speaker 2: there are more clues. McGraw's car is radioactive now and

925
00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:48,040
Speaker 2: the fingerprints of the murderer match a man who died

926
00:51:48,160 --> 00:51:51,560
Speaker 2: a few weeks ago, so another dead man's fingerprints around

927
00:51:51,560 --> 00:51:55,240
Speaker 2: the scene. And the reporters show back up again there,

928
00:51:55,440 --> 00:51:57,080
Speaker 2: you know. They go up to Chet and they're like, hey,

929
00:51:57,120 --> 00:51:59,600
Speaker 2: were you actually serious about these murders being done by

930
00:51:59,640 --> 00:52:03,279
Speaker 2: a thing with a brain charged by Adam Rays? And

931
00:52:03,400 --> 00:52:06,200
Speaker 2: Chet's like, yes, I was serious. And then the reporters say,

932
00:52:06,200 --> 00:52:08,000
Speaker 2: hot dog, you know we had a scoop. We didn't

933
00:52:08,000 --> 00:52:10,440
Speaker 2: even know it, And then they all run off together.

934
00:52:10,560 --> 00:52:13,440
Speaker 2: I'm like, is that a scoop if all nine of

935
00:52:13,480 --> 00:52:16,839
Speaker 2: you got it at the same time? Yeah?

936
00:52:16,880 --> 00:52:20,560
Speaker 1: Are they all working for the same papers? This is

937
00:52:21,080 --> 00:52:23,720
Speaker 1: the budget for this newspaper? Is a ditting question.

938
00:52:24,080 --> 00:52:26,320
Speaker 2: They also they don't like stop to get a quote

939
00:52:26,400 --> 00:52:28,880
Speaker 2: or ask any follow up questions. They just he just

940
00:52:28,960 --> 00:52:31,920
Speaker 2: confirms it was Adam Brain's and they're like, okay, we

941
00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:33,560
Speaker 2: got a story, and they run off.

942
00:52:33,760 --> 00:52:34,240
Speaker 1: Confirmed.

943
00:52:34,760 --> 00:52:37,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay. After this, we go to one of my

944
00:52:37,920 --> 00:52:41,440
Speaker 2: favorite characters in the movie. Who is uh is his

945
00:52:41,560 --> 00:52:42,760
Speaker 2: name Dick Cutting?

946
00:52:43,640 --> 00:52:44,320
Speaker 1: Dick Cutting?

947
00:52:44,400 --> 00:52:48,360
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, okay, So we go to Dick Cutting is

948
00:52:48,719 --> 00:52:52,719
Speaker 2: a man who looks like he should be playing like

949
00:52:53,280 --> 00:52:56,480
Speaker 2: a commander in the Galactic Empire in Star Wars. He

950
00:52:56,520 --> 00:52:59,120
Speaker 2: has that kind of he should be Admiral Cutting.

951
00:52:59,239 --> 00:53:02,040
Speaker 1: Played by Richard H. Cutting, who lived nineteen twelve through

952
00:53:02,120 --> 00:53:03,000
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy two.

953
00:53:03,440 --> 00:53:04,879
Speaker 2: Wait, that's his real name.

954
00:53:05,360 --> 00:53:07,520
Speaker 1: Apparently. Yeah. He was also an attack of the crab

955
00:53:07,560 --> 00:53:09,080
Speaker 1: monsters in South Pacific.

956
00:53:09,640 --> 00:53:12,960
Speaker 2: Oh, I didn't recognize him from crab Monsters. We'll see

957
00:53:12,960 --> 00:53:15,000
Speaker 2: which one was he is he the scientist in it?

958
00:53:15,600 --> 00:53:19,280
Speaker 2: I'll have to come back and doctor James Carson. Okay, okay.

959
00:53:20,239 --> 00:53:23,799
Speaker 2: So he's got a news monologue which is just tremendous.

960
00:53:23,840 --> 00:53:26,640
Speaker 2: His scenes are some of my favorite stuff in the film.

961
00:53:26,680 --> 00:53:28,759
Speaker 2: So he says hello, ladies and gentlemen. He's sitting at

962
00:53:28,760 --> 00:53:31,799
Speaker 2: like a very nice looking desk, and then behind him

963
00:53:31,880 --> 00:53:34,840
Speaker 2: there's a shelf full of what looked like very old books.

964
00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:38,040
Speaker 2: You know they're like, I don't know first editions or something.

965
00:53:38,400 --> 00:53:41,240
Speaker 2: He says, Hello, ladies and gentlemen. This is Dick cutting

966
00:53:41,320 --> 00:53:45,160
Speaker 2: with today's commentary on the news. As you know, today's

967
00:53:45,160 --> 00:53:48,040
Speaker 2: story hinges around the killing of District Attorney McGraw, whose

968
00:53:48,040 --> 00:53:51,000
Speaker 2: body was found today in his garage, murdered in much

969
00:53:51,040 --> 00:53:54,200
Speaker 2: the same manner as Hennessy was. What connection can the

970
00:53:54,280 --> 00:53:57,800
Speaker 2: murder have to Hennessy, who was obviously a gangland boss

971
00:53:58,000 --> 00:54:02,319
Speaker 2: is unknown at present. Chet Walker of the police Laboratory

972
00:54:02,680 --> 00:54:05,759
Speaker 2: has given out a fantastic story so incredible that one

973
00:54:05,800 --> 00:54:08,680
Speaker 2: can lend it little credence. Doctor Walker is of the

974
00:54:08,719 --> 00:54:12,560
Speaker 2: opinion that these crimes are being perpetrated by dead men. Yes,

975
00:54:12,640 --> 00:54:16,040
Speaker 2: I said, dead men restored to life in some unknown

976
00:54:16,120 --> 00:54:19,960
Speaker 2: manner by being charged with atom Ray's which gives them

977
00:54:20,000 --> 00:54:23,920
Speaker 2: superhuman strength and makes them impervious to bullets. Well, if

978
00:54:23,960 --> 00:54:26,600
Speaker 2: you want to believe that story, you can, And then

979
00:54:26,680 --> 00:54:30,000
Speaker 2: cut to Buchanan switching off the TV angrily.

980
00:54:31,800 --> 00:54:33,839
Speaker 1: There'll be more from Dick cutting here in a bed.

981
00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:34,920
Speaker 1: It gets even better.

982
00:54:35,280 --> 00:54:37,120
Speaker 2: Today's commentary on the.

983
00:54:37,120 --> 00:54:40,120
Speaker 1: News, filmed in what just looks like a lawyer's office

984
00:54:40,120 --> 00:54:42,799
Speaker 1: as opposed to a TV studio or.

985
00:54:42,719 --> 00:54:46,360
Speaker 2: Something, except there are curtains on the wall in the background.

986
00:54:46,440 --> 00:54:46,640
Speaker 4: Ah.

987
00:54:46,719 --> 00:54:51,040
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, So Buchanan is mad that I guess they've

988
00:54:51,040 --> 00:54:53,359
Speaker 2: figured out the whole scheme. And now, even though dick

989
00:54:53,400 --> 00:54:57,520
Speaker 2: cutting does not lend it any credence, he's mad just

990
00:54:57,560 --> 00:55:01,400
Speaker 2: to hear it being spoken, the lips of dick Cutting,

991
00:55:01,480 --> 00:55:05,799
Speaker 2: even if to be dismissed. Yes, so Buchanan says, this

992
00:55:05,920 --> 00:55:09,400
Speaker 2: doctor Walker has quite the imagination, and then Steig says,

993
00:55:09,480 --> 00:55:12,319
Speaker 2: the kind of imagination that could prove dangerous to us.

994
00:55:12,520 --> 00:55:15,319
Speaker 2: And then Buchanan says, you mean the kind of imagination

995
00:55:15,400 --> 00:55:19,719
Speaker 2: that could prove dangerous to him? Ooh, Buchanan is ruthless.

996
00:55:20,280 --> 00:55:22,920
Speaker 2: Now next we get another what I thought was a

997
00:55:23,000 --> 00:55:25,840
Speaker 2: highlight of the film, which is the meeting at City

998
00:55:25,920 --> 00:55:28,760
Speaker 2: Hall scene. This is like twenty two twenty three minutes

999
00:55:28,800 --> 00:55:32,160
Speaker 2: in Walker meets with the mayor and a bunch of

1000
00:55:32,200 --> 00:55:37,239
Speaker 2: big wigs, including a General Saunders, and oh my god,

1001
00:55:37,320 --> 00:55:39,600
Speaker 2: this guy's line deliveries. I don't know if you found

1002
00:55:39,600 --> 00:55:42,920
Speaker 2: them as hilarious as I did, but they're just perfect.

1003
00:55:43,200 --> 00:55:45,719
Speaker 2: He's I don't know if I can do an impression,

1004
00:55:45,800 --> 00:55:48,600
Speaker 2: but you know they're they're introducing everybody, and he's like,

1005
00:55:48,760 --> 00:55:56,200
Speaker 2: I'm from the military called just concerned me. So Chat

1006
00:55:56,239 --> 00:55:59,400
Speaker 2: explains the creature with the Adam brain theory of the

1007
00:55:59,440 --> 00:56:03,879
Speaker 2: case by talking about Faraday's experiments with a frog's leg,

1008
00:56:04,120 --> 00:56:06,680
Speaker 2: you know, animating it with electricities, Like what if we

1009
00:56:06,680 --> 00:56:09,440
Speaker 2: could do the same thing but with a human with

1010
00:56:09,560 --> 00:56:15,360
Speaker 2: atomic rays and that, you know, basically like Colonel Sanders

1011
00:56:15,480 --> 00:56:19,240
Speaker 2: is oh wait, no, is that his name? Colonel No? Sorry,

1012
00:56:19,440 --> 00:56:26,080
Speaker 2: General Saunders. The genuine mistake here, okay, General Saunders, who says,

1013
00:56:27,120 --> 00:56:31,919
Speaker 2: oh ye sorry. Chat requests trucks and planes that can

1014
00:56:32,080 --> 00:56:36,920
Speaker 2: detect radiation so that they can find the headquarters of

1015
00:56:37,680 --> 00:56:41,480
Speaker 2: the atom brain monsters, and General Saunders is like, I'll

1016
00:56:41,480 --> 00:56:42,480
Speaker 2: go through your.

1017
00:56:42,440 --> 00:56:49,200
Speaker 1: Plans, oh man, So now the investigation into the atom creatures,

1018
00:56:49,239 --> 00:56:51,720
Speaker 1: the atom brain creatures is about to have military support.

1019
00:56:52,480 --> 00:56:54,239
Speaker 2: This is I think we've talked about this before, but

1020
00:56:54,320 --> 00:56:56,640
Speaker 2: this is a way that a lot of stories from

1021
00:56:56,719 --> 00:56:59,319
Speaker 2: this era are structured that makes them I think not

1022
00:56:59,480 --> 00:57:02,840
Speaker 2: nearly as thrilling or high tension as they could be

1023
00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:06,759
Speaker 2: just in the plot wise, because it basically has the

1024
00:57:06,840 --> 00:57:12,120
Speaker 2: heroes aligned with like powerful forces and many you know,

1025
00:57:12,280 --> 00:57:15,160
Speaker 2: lots of backup, like the police, and the military are

1026
00:57:15,200 --> 00:57:19,560
Speaker 2: aligned with the heroes, helping search out the isolated, besieged

1027
00:57:19,720 --> 00:57:20,400
Speaker 2: bad guys.

1028
00:57:21,200 --> 00:57:27,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, all all of the lawful good agencies are going

1029
00:57:27,200 --> 00:57:32,240
Speaker 1: to align and will overcome the I guess lawful evil

1030
00:57:32,320 --> 00:57:34,840
Speaker 1: or maybe chaotoic evil forces of the villain. Like, there's

1031
00:57:34,880 --> 00:57:37,760
Speaker 1: not really, there's no conflict among them, there's no question

1032
00:57:37,840 --> 00:57:40,720
Speaker 1: of confidence. It's just a matter of time.

1033
00:57:40,560 --> 00:57:51,240
Speaker 2: Really, all right. So somewhere in here there is a

1034
00:57:51,240 --> 00:57:56,320
Speaker 2: plot where Buchanan and Steige send a road assassin after

1035
00:57:56,440 --> 00:57:59,840
Speaker 2: Chet Walker. They figured out that he's onto them, and

1036
00:58:00,200 --> 00:58:02,200
Speaker 2: they get this guy in a car like trying to

1037
00:58:02,280 --> 00:58:03,680
Speaker 2: chase him down and run him off the road, but

1038
00:58:03,760 --> 00:58:06,960
Speaker 2: instead they just follow him to a military airfield where

1039
00:58:06,960 --> 00:58:09,160
Speaker 2: they're like, oh, actually we need to do surveillance. This

1040
00:58:09,160 --> 00:58:12,880
Speaker 2: guy's got something big cooking. But next there is a

1041
00:58:12,960 --> 00:58:16,240
Speaker 2: scene at Chet and Joyce's house, and I thought the

1042
00:58:16,240 --> 00:58:20,040
Speaker 2: sequence of this whole scene, the arc here is hilarious.

1043
00:58:20,520 --> 00:58:23,560
Speaker 2: So first Chet comes home, Chet and Joyce are all

1044
00:58:23,600 --> 00:58:26,520
Speaker 2: over each other, of course, then they announced it's time

1045
00:58:26,560 --> 00:58:30,800
Speaker 2: for dinner. Then Joyce sees a newspaper that has a

1046
00:58:30,840 --> 00:58:36,560
Speaker 2: banner headline do dead men walk city streets? Authorities tracking

1047
00:58:36,600 --> 00:58:39,680
Speaker 2: down all clues. Also some other headlines. I see building

1048
00:58:39,760 --> 00:58:40,800
Speaker 2: code under fire.

1049
00:58:41,480 --> 00:58:43,640
Speaker 1: Oh man, I feel that that was going to be

1050
00:58:43,680 --> 00:58:45,920
Speaker 1: the lead. But then this dead man walking the street

1051
00:58:45,960 --> 00:58:47,600
Speaker 1: thing popped up exactly.

1052
00:58:47,640 --> 00:58:50,320
Speaker 2: So Joyce gets the paper. She says, it's not true,

1053
00:58:50,360 --> 00:58:53,040
Speaker 2: is it? I assume she's not talking about the building code.

1054
00:58:53,040 --> 00:58:55,000
Speaker 2: She means like, is it true about the dead men?

1055
00:58:56,520 --> 00:59:00,240
Speaker 2: And Chet says, better hide it from Penny. Say, could

1056
00:59:00,320 --> 00:59:04,720
Speaker 2: use a really nice cold martini, So Joyce makes him one.

1057
00:59:05,080 --> 00:59:07,960
Speaker 2: And then as she is making him a nice cold martini,

1058
00:59:08,120 --> 00:59:11,160
Speaker 2: she's like, well, pennies out playing in the street where

1059
00:59:11,160 --> 00:59:17,040
Speaker 2: the atomic brains are? Is that safe? And doctor Chet says,

1060
00:59:17,360 --> 00:59:20,120
Speaker 2: there seems to be some sort of definite pattern. Can't

1061
00:59:20,160 --> 00:59:22,000
Speaker 2: put my finger on it, but I do know that

1062
00:59:22,040 --> 00:59:25,120
Speaker 2: Hennessy and mcgral were killed for a reason. And then

1063
00:59:25,240 --> 00:59:27,880
Speaker 2: Joyce is like, well, it's all right. Then he didn't

1064
00:59:27,920 --> 00:59:31,360
Speaker 2: really answer the question, and Chet says, well, for a while,

1065
00:59:31,440 --> 00:59:35,080
Speaker 2: I don't think they've gotten around to indiscriminate killings yet.

1066
00:59:36,400 --> 00:59:40,480
Speaker 1: That's not even part of the plan. Has been described

1067
00:59:40,600 --> 00:59:44,640
Speaker 1: by Buchanan. They are very specific killings. These they're not

1068
00:59:44,720 --> 00:59:48,280
Speaker 1: random killings either, a specific vengeance killings.

1069
00:59:48,400 --> 00:59:50,520
Speaker 2: But so Chet seems to be like, yes, it is

1070
00:59:50,560 --> 00:59:52,600
Speaker 2: okay for Penny to play in the street with the

1071
00:59:52,640 --> 00:59:56,440
Speaker 2: Adam Brains. And then Penny comes inside. She asked for

1072
00:59:56,520 --> 00:59:59,000
Speaker 2: the newspaper because she wants to read the funnies, and

1073
00:59:59,080 --> 01:00:01,840
Speaker 2: they lie and tell her it didn't come today. Then

1074
01:00:01,840 --> 01:00:04,200
Speaker 2: she wants to turn on the TV, and they lie

1075
01:00:04,360 --> 01:00:06,120
Speaker 2: and tell her the TV is broken. You know, it

1076
01:00:06,200 --> 01:00:09,280
Speaker 2: must be new tubes or something. Then Chet gets his

1077
01:00:09,400 --> 01:00:11,920
Speaker 2: martini and he's like, ooh, I've been thinking about this

1078
01:00:12,000 --> 01:00:16,120
Speaker 2: all day. And then Dave arrives. Captain Dave here arrives

1079
01:00:16,200 --> 01:00:19,120
Speaker 2: to explain more Adam Brain news, and then they send

1080
01:00:19,160 --> 01:00:21,720
Speaker 2: Penny to her room so she can't hear the conversation

1081
01:00:22,160 --> 01:00:24,360
Speaker 2: and they have a whole big argument about it. Penny's like,

1082
01:00:24,400 --> 01:00:26,280
Speaker 2: you know, oh, I you know, I promise not to

1083
01:00:26,320 --> 01:00:29,040
Speaker 2: bother them. They're like, no, you must go. I think

1084
01:00:29,080 --> 01:00:30,640
Speaker 2: they tell her to go to her room and like

1085
01:00:30,720 --> 01:00:34,800
Speaker 2: punish Henrietta the doll or something. So there is this

1086
01:00:34,920 --> 01:00:41,160
Speaker 2: persistent theme about them systematically hiding knowledge of danger from

1087
01:00:41,240 --> 01:00:45,600
Speaker 2: Penny while actually not protecting her from the danger itself.

1088
01:00:45,920 --> 01:00:47,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, and of course I think you could make a

1089
01:00:47,960 --> 01:00:51,400
Speaker 1: lot out of that too as a commentary on people

1090
01:00:51,440 --> 01:00:54,440
Speaker 1: growing up in the nineteen fifties and even some subsequent decades.

1091
01:00:54,480 --> 01:00:58,160
Speaker 1: You know, not so much as it concerns the threat

1092
01:00:58,280 --> 01:01:03,440
Speaker 1: of adam brained walking corpses, but various other issues in life.

1093
01:01:03,760 --> 01:01:06,800
Speaker 1: You know, this sense of being overly protective in one way,

1094
01:01:07,080 --> 01:01:11,000
Speaker 1: but not preparing a child at all for the realities

1095
01:01:11,320 --> 01:01:13,040
Speaker 1: of well, in this case, the walking dead.

1096
01:01:13,440 --> 01:01:17,960
Speaker 2: Right, So Dave has some information. He explains the backstory

1097
01:01:18,000 --> 01:01:20,360
Speaker 2: that he pieced together that could make sense of all this.

1098
01:01:20,800 --> 01:01:24,560
Speaker 2: There was this guy Buchanan, the old crime boss in town,

1099
01:01:25,160 --> 01:01:29,920
Speaker 2: who many years ago was tried and convicted of crime

1100
01:01:30,760 --> 01:01:35,640
Speaker 2: and then sent into exile in Italy. What was this

1101
01:01:35,760 --> 01:01:38,480
Speaker 2: like a common punishment in the nineteen forties. So you're

1102
01:01:38,520 --> 01:01:42,040
Speaker 2: convicted of being a mafia boss and instead of going

1103
01:01:42,080 --> 01:01:44,320
Speaker 2: to prison, you're sent to Italy.

1104
01:01:44,880 --> 01:01:49,440
Speaker 1: Yeah. I had the same head scratching situation with this detail,

1105
01:01:49,520 --> 01:01:52,720
Speaker 1: and I was looking it up and I can't find

1106
01:01:52,760 --> 01:01:55,240
Speaker 1: anything that would support this as an actual reality. I

1107
01:01:55,240 --> 01:01:57,280
Speaker 1: think you can get instant just some murky stuff about

1108
01:01:57,360 --> 01:02:00,680
Speaker 1: US states being able to exile people from a given state.

1109
01:02:01,200 --> 01:02:04,800
Speaker 1: But I didn't come across anything regarding like judicial exile,

1110
01:02:05,760 --> 01:02:09,040
Speaker 1: like unless Buchanan was an Italian national. I guess maybe

1111
01:02:09,040 --> 01:02:10,760
Speaker 1: that would make sense, but there's nothing to indicate that

1112
01:02:10,840 --> 01:02:15,600
Speaker 1: he is or was. This is his name is Buchanan. Yeah,

1113
01:02:15,640 --> 01:02:18,800
Speaker 1: that's a Scottish name. Yeah, So I don't know. I mean,

1114
01:02:19,280 --> 01:02:25,000
Speaker 1: maybe there's something lost and re writes to the script

1115
01:02:25,160 --> 01:02:27,800
Speaker 1: like it's one thing if he was living in exile

1116
01:02:27,880 --> 01:02:30,920
Speaker 1: because he fled the law, like that would seem to

1117
01:02:30,960 --> 01:02:33,400
Speaker 1: match up. But this idea of being exiled even in

1118
01:02:33,440 --> 01:02:36,160
Speaker 1: like the nineteen forties, to another country because you were

1119
01:02:36,440 --> 01:02:38,720
Speaker 1: a criminal, career criminal, I just don't know if that

1120
01:02:38,760 --> 01:02:39,680
Speaker 1: makes any sense at all.

1121
01:02:39,960 --> 01:02:42,480
Speaker 2: Well, anyway, apparently when he was convicted, he stood up

1122
01:02:42,480 --> 01:02:46,280
Speaker 2: in court and swore revenge on Da McGraw and everybody

1123
01:02:46,280 --> 01:02:50,040
Speaker 2: else who had testified against him at trial, which included Hennessy,

1124
01:02:50,080 --> 01:02:53,800
Speaker 2: who was his number two, but also included three other guys,

1125
01:02:53,880 --> 01:02:57,000
Speaker 2: and we'll meet them in a minute. We also will

1126
01:02:57,040 --> 01:03:01,160
Speaker 2: eventually learn, via these repeated cabe that they received from

1127
01:03:01,240 --> 01:03:05,720
Speaker 2: police in Rome that while Buchanan was there, he made

1128
01:03:05,760 --> 01:03:09,440
Speaker 2: friends with a German scientist named Stig who did weird

1129
01:03:09,640 --> 01:03:15,200
Speaker 2: experiments on dogs, cats, and monkeys involving atomic radiation. So

1130
01:03:15,240 --> 01:03:18,920
Speaker 2: it's all coming together now for the police investigators. But

1131
01:03:19,120 --> 01:03:22,400
Speaker 2: they think, Okay, these other three guys who testified against Buchanan,

1132
01:03:22,480 --> 01:03:24,560
Speaker 2: they are in danger, so we got to round them up.

1133
01:03:25,440 --> 01:03:27,400
Speaker 2: And then at the very end of the scene, there's

1134
01:03:27,440 --> 01:03:31,080
Speaker 2: a strange thing where Joyce offers Chet a second Martini

1135
01:03:31,200 --> 01:03:34,320
Speaker 2: to take in the car with him. He turns it down,

1136
01:03:34,440 --> 01:03:36,640
Speaker 2: so she chugs it and then has a coughing fit.

1137
01:03:36,760 --> 01:03:39,160
Speaker 2: So it's like she can't hang stretch.

1138
01:03:39,720 --> 01:03:41,360
Speaker 1: Like, even if it doesn't make sense, it's like the

1139
01:03:41,400 --> 01:03:43,400
Speaker 1: script is economic. They're fitting a lot of stuff. Then

1140
01:03:43,440 --> 01:03:45,800
Speaker 1: there's no ways in space. Even if we don't really

1141
01:03:45,920 --> 01:03:47,240
Speaker 1: understand what the point.

1142
01:03:47,000 --> 01:03:49,560
Speaker 2: Is, right, but we know what's going to happen next, Right,

1143
01:03:49,800 --> 01:03:52,960
Speaker 2: Buchanan's going to be sending Adam brainiacs to kill the

1144
01:03:53,160 --> 01:03:56,800
Speaker 2: three more guys, the others who testified against him. The

1145
01:03:56,920 --> 01:04:00,440
Speaker 2: police offer to let those guys stay in jail for

1146
01:04:00,480 --> 01:04:02,960
Speaker 2: their own protection, but they turn it down. They're like, no,

1147
01:04:03,000 --> 01:04:05,120
Speaker 2: I'm going to be at home. Now.

1148
01:04:05,200 --> 01:04:07,520
Speaker 1: We're about I think at the thirty four minute mark

1149
01:04:07,560 --> 01:04:10,160
Speaker 1: here and there's we're gonna check back in with Dick

1150
01:04:10,240 --> 01:04:14,680
Speaker 1: cutting for just an absolutely perfect newscast that brings to

1151
01:04:14,760 --> 01:04:19,880
Speaker 1: mind the newscaster from the Simpsons. There's this great sort

1152
01:04:19,880 --> 01:04:23,840
Speaker 1: of issuing of an apology concerning the Adam Brain creatures. I,

1153
01:04:24,000 --> 01:04:28,440
Speaker 1: for one, welcome our new Adam Brain overlords, according Dick Cutting,

1154
01:04:28,600 --> 01:04:29,360
Speaker 1: so he says.

1155
01:04:30,320 --> 01:04:32,760
Speaker 2: And with the murder of Jason, Oh so, one of

1156
01:04:32,800 --> 01:04:36,080
Speaker 2: the guys, one of the three guys gets murdered, Dick

1157
01:04:36,160 --> 01:04:39,360
Speaker 2: Cutting says, And with the murder of Jason Franschat last night,

1158
01:04:39,520 --> 01:04:43,840
Speaker 2: I must apologize for my recent skepticism regarding these atomic creatures.

1159
01:04:44,120 --> 01:04:48,240
Speaker 2: It seems they do exist, and they are prowling the street.

1160
01:04:50,440 --> 01:04:52,920
Speaker 2: I love it, but I think there's a subtext also,

1161
01:04:52,920 --> 01:04:55,280
Speaker 2: which is like, but please do allow your children to

1162
01:04:55,320 --> 01:04:57,440
Speaker 2: continue to play in the street. We don't want them

1163
01:04:57,440 --> 01:05:00,880
Speaker 2: to know there could be any danger. And now a

1164
01:05:00,880 --> 01:05:04,520
Speaker 2: message from our sponsor, you know, healthy lung cigarettes.

1165
01:05:04,840 --> 01:05:07,400
Speaker 1: I do feel like this movie was sponsored by pipe smoke.

1166
01:05:07,480 --> 01:05:10,080
Speaker 1: There there's a lot of like Chat is always smoking

1167
01:05:10,080 --> 01:05:13,560
Speaker 1: a pipe. There scenes where two characters having conversations smoking

1168
01:05:13,600 --> 01:05:15,960
Speaker 1: pipes at the same time. I haven't seen this much

1169
01:05:15,960 --> 01:05:17,440
Speaker 1: pipe smoke since Lord of the Rings.

1170
01:05:17,760 --> 01:05:19,760
Speaker 2: We're going to get to a pipe scene in a minute. So,

1171
01:05:20,680 --> 01:05:25,040
Speaker 2: but first, there are those planes and trucks that the

1172
01:05:25,160 --> 01:05:29,280
Speaker 2: Chet requested earlier. They've got radium finders equipped and they're

1173
01:05:29,320 --> 01:05:33,360
Speaker 2: scanning the city to find Adam brain HQ. And there's

1174
01:05:33,400 --> 01:05:35,520
Speaker 2: a scene where Stig is out on the town. I

1175
01:05:35,560 --> 01:05:40,000
Speaker 2: think he's out getting medicine to treat his radiation poisoning,

1176
01:05:40,760 --> 01:05:43,280
Speaker 2: and he ducks into a bar to hide from the

1177
01:05:43,280 --> 01:05:45,440
Speaker 2: military because they're like doing a house to house with

1178
01:05:45,480 --> 01:05:48,480
Speaker 2: their bayonets out. I guess looking for I don't know

1179
01:05:48,520 --> 01:05:52,200
Speaker 2: any scientists. I don't know exactly what they're running around with.

1180
01:05:52,440 --> 01:05:55,160
Speaker 2: I guess they've got Geiger counters. Maybe they're scanning people

1181
01:05:55,200 --> 01:05:59,000
Speaker 2: to see, like, are you radioactive? So he runs into

1182
01:05:59,000 --> 01:06:01,360
Speaker 2: a bar to hide, orders a beer and then runs

1183
01:06:01,360 --> 01:06:04,240
Speaker 2: out through the back door, leaves radiation on his beer

1184
01:06:04,360 --> 01:06:06,320
Speaker 2: and they find that there. But they're like, oh, okay,

1185
01:06:06,360 --> 01:06:10,360
Speaker 2: so we're looking for this German accent guy. Then there

1186
01:06:10,480 --> 01:06:14,440
Speaker 2: is a research segment of the film, rob I think

1187
01:06:14,480 --> 01:06:18,400
Speaker 2: you recently alluded to there's a like in each campaign

1188
01:06:18,400 --> 01:06:21,080
Speaker 2: of Arkham Horror, there's like a research segment.

1189
01:06:21,480 --> 01:06:24,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, yep, this is our research segment for sure.

1190
01:06:24,800 --> 01:06:28,520
Speaker 2: Chet goes to consult a neurologist friend of his about

1191
01:06:28,600 --> 01:06:33,040
Speaker 2: Steig and his research. He learns all about Adam brain experiments.

1192
01:06:33,080 --> 01:06:35,840
Speaker 2: Actually not Adam brain experiments. He learns about so I

1193
01:06:35,880 --> 01:06:39,280
Speaker 2: think the thing is he learns that there have been

1194
01:06:39,400 --> 01:06:44,160
Speaker 2: experiments that you can use electrodes to remotely control the

1195
01:06:44,200 --> 01:06:48,160
Speaker 2: behavior of other creatures, like dogs. So they watch a

1196
01:06:48,200 --> 01:06:51,120
Speaker 2: film strip with an electric dog. That is the cutest

1197
01:06:51,120 --> 01:06:51,880
Speaker 2: thing I've ever seen.

1198
01:06:52,440 --> 01:06:58,960
Speaker 1: Yes, you'll never see fictional footage of dog mad science experiments.

1199
01:06:59,320 --> 01:07:03,240
Speaker 1: That is so horrible because yeah, there's the the implication

1200
01:07:03,920 --> 01:07:06,320
Speaker 1: on some level is that this is cruel and monstrous,

1201
01:07:06,640 --> 01:07:08,640
Speaker 1: but you don't get that from the footage because it's

1202
01:07:08,640 --> 01:07:12,760
Speaker 1: clearly like somebody's beloved pet dog with a couple of

1203
01:07:12,880 --> 01:07:15,560
Speaker 1: wires attached to its collar or something, or maybe just

1204
01:07:15,640 --> 01:07:17,760
Speaker 1: kind of like tucked into its fur, and then it's

1205
01:07:17,800 --> 01:07:20,360
Speaker 1: just doing dog stuff. They're like, look it barks on command,

1206
01:07:20,400 --> 01:07:22,400
Speaker 1: Look it sets down, and so forth.

1207
01:07:23,080 --> 01:07:26,280
Speaker 2: How can you imagine a dog doing something on command?

1208
01:07:27,360 --> 01:07:29,480
Speaker 2: But no, they're doing it by controlling its brain. But

1209
01:07:29,520 --> 01:07:33,120
Speaker 2: also it's funny because the dog is like, they're like,

1210
01:07:33,280 --> 01:07:35,960
Speaker 2: you hear, by flipping this electrode, you can make it

1211
01:07:36,040 --> 01:07:37,600
Speaker 2: vicious and then it goes er.

1212
01:07:37,920 --> 01:07:39,920
Speaker 1: But it's the cutest dog, So it is.

1213
01:07:40,320 --> 01:07:42,280
Speaker 2: It's cute viciousness. Yeah.

1214
01:07:42,400 --> 01:07:43,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is like I don't know what kind of dog,

1215
01:07:44,040 --> 01:07:46,320
Speaker 1: like a bingee dog, you know, that level of dog.

1216
01:07:46,680 --> 01:07:49,800
Speaker 2: So that's the like electric control. But then I think

1217
01:07:49,960 --> 01:07:52,959
Speaker 2: they make the bridge to the Adam brain thing by saying, oh,

1218
01:07:53,000 --> 01:07:57,480
Speaker 2: but could you control a dead person with this kind

1219
01:07:57,520 --> 01:08:00,320
Speaker 2: of method? And the guy's like no, because you didn't

1220
01:08:00,360 --> 01:08:02,440
Speaker 2: have the energy to power the body if they were

1221
01:08:02,440 --> 01:08:05,240
Speaker 2: no longer alive. But then Chad is like, what if

1222
01:08:05,280 --> 01:08:08,840
Speaker 2: you used atom rays? And then the guy's like, oh no,

1223
01:08:08,960 --> 01:08:09,800
Speaker 2: I hadn't thought of that.

1224
01:08:10,160 --> 01:08:11,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, He's like, we're not there yet, but kind of

1225
01:08:11,960 --> 01:08:14,800
Speaker 1: implying like it's a good idea though, like this is

1226
01:08:14,800 --> 01:08:17,800
Speaker 1: a good way to use corpses, but we're just not

1227
01:08:17,920 --> 01:08:18,720
Speaker 1: there yet.

1228
01:08:19,840 --> 01:08:22,919
Speaker 2: But this whole scene, they're just digging into some pipes.

1229
01:08:23,240 --> 01:08:26,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, just so much pipe smoking. They both have

1230
01:08:26,400 --> 01:08:26,840
Speaker 1: one going.

1231
01:08:28,320 --> 01:08:30,439
Speaker 2: It's like, try some of my tobacco blend.

1232
01:08:30,920 --> 01:08:31,520
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1233
01:08:31,920 --> 01:08:34,760
Speaker 2: Now, from here, there is a subplot where Buchanan and

1234
01:08:34,880 --> 01:08:39,479
Speaker 2: Styg resort to terrorism. They're trying to get the army

1235
01:08:39,520 --> 01:08:43,599
Speaker 2: to stop scanning with their radium finders, so they have

1236
01:08:43,720 --> 01:08:48,120
Speaker 2: one of the Adam brains call in from a payphone

1237
01:08:48,760 --> 01:08:52,120
Speaker 2: to the Army. I guess to call somebody and say, like,

1238
01:08:52,160 --> 01:08:57,439
Speaker 2: stop your investigation or there will be disasters. And of

1239
01:08:57,439 --> 01:09:01,320
Speaker 2: course the authorities don't negotiate with Adam Brain, so they

1240
01:09:01,400 --> 01:09:04,680
Speaker 2: don't stop. And then we are treated to stock footage

1241
01:09:04,720 --> 01:09:08,519
Speaker 2: of like trains derailing and mountains exploding and stuff. We

1242
01:09:08,560 --> 01:09:12,040
Speaker 2: see a headline in the newspaper that says, plane bus

1243
01:09:12,040 --> 01:09:14,160
Speaker 2: and rail crashes stir public.

1244
01:09:14,680 --> 01:09:18,080
Speaker 1: Really in this calculation on the cannon's part, because he

1245
01:09:18,160 --> 01:09:21,040
Speaker 1: always doing is antagonizing the military at this point, if

1246
01:09:21,040 --> 01:09:23,080
Speaker 1: he really wanted the heat to die down, they should

1247
01:09:23,080 --> 01:09:25,040
Speaker 1: have just stopped doing Adam Brains.

1248
01:09:24,720 --> 01:09:26,160
Speaker 2: For a little bit. Yeah.

1249
01:09:26,360 --> 01:09:29,120
Speaker 1: Also, doesn't he have just like three more murders left

1250
01:09:29,320 --> 01:09:31,400
Speaker 1: to complete his agenda here?

1251
01:09:31,560 --> 01:09:33,080
Speaker 2: I think he did one of the three, so he's

1252
01:09:33,120 --> 01:09:33,959
Speaker 2: got two more.

1253
01:09:33,800 --> 01:09:36,160
Speaker 1: Two murders left, and you're gonna go ahead and rile

1254
01:09:36,240 --> 01:09:37,519
Speaker 1: up the military. I don't know.

1255
01:09:38,080 --> 01:09:39,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, it seems like he should keep his eye on

1256
01:09:39,840 --> 01:09:43,840
Speaker 2: the ball, like they're really getting sidetracked. I feel like

1257
01:09:43,880 --> 01:09:46,880
Speaker 2: it would be harder to accomplish plane bus and rail

1258
01:09:46,960 --> 01:09:50,920
Speaker 2: crashes than to just finish his business. Yeah, but oh no.

1259
01:09:51,120 --> 01:09:54,320
Speaker 2: Then we get to a scene where Dave Chet's friend

1260
01:09:54,400 --> 01:09:58,640
Speaker 2: gets Adam brained. He gets attacked by I think the

1261
01:09:58,880 --> 01:10:02,120
Speaker 2: one of the three guys who was on the murder list,

1262
01:10:02,240 --> 01:10:05,720
Speaker 2: the accountant, the former accountant of Buchanan. He gets killed

1263
01:10:05,760 --> 01:10:07,559
Speaker 2: in his house by an Adam brain. He gets turned

1264
01:10:07,600 --> 01:10:10,920
Speaker 2: into an Adam brain. He kills Dave in Dave's car,

1265
01:10:11,240 --> 01:10:13,120
Speaker 2: and then Dave gets Adam brained.

1266
01:10:13,200 --> 01:10:15,519
Speaker 1: And we get to see the is this the Adam

1267
01:10:15,560 --> 01:10:18,320
Speaker 1: brain itself? Could I couldn't make out all the detail

1268
01:10:18,400 --> 01:10:19,920
Speaker 1: when I was viewing it. It's just some sort of

1269
01:10:19,960 --> 01:10:22,720
Speaker 1: implied some sort of like thing with wires on it.

1270
01:10:22,800 --> 01:10:25,280
Speaker 1: It's going to go into the open cranium because I

1271
01:10:25,280 --> 01:10:27,120
Speaker 1: don't know. Do we mention that all the Adam brains

1272
01:10:27,160 --> 01:10:30,000
Speaker 1: have like what appears to be stitching across their forehead.

1273
01:10:30,120 --> 01:10:32,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, that their head has been opened up like a

1274
01:10:32,520 --> 01:10:35,640
Speaker 2: like a pez dispenser and something is inserted in it.

1275
01:10:36,080 --> 01:10:39,840
Speaker 2: The thing is some kind of electrode brain plates. I

1276
01:10:39,840 --> 01:10:42,360
Speaker 2: think they install the plate in the brain to send

1277
01:10:42,439 --> 01:10:46,080
Speaker 2: electrodes down into the brain tissue to control the body remotely,

1278
01:10:46,720 --> 01:10:51,280
Speaker 2: and then they power it with the Adam rays. So

1279
01:10:51,320 --> 01:10:54,599
Speaker 2: they Adam brain Dave and then they get Dave talking.

1280
01:10:54,680 --> 01:10:57,360
Speaker 2: They're like testing him out. They find that he can

1281
01:10:57,560 --> 01:11:00,519
Speaker 2: use his own vocal cords so he won't sound like

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Speaker 2: Buchanan when he talks. He'll sound like Dave. But they're

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Speaker 2: like get you. They're like, you know, Captain Harris, say

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Speaker 2: your name, and he goes, my name is David Harris,

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Speaker 2: Homicide Squad. And then they tuck a knife in his

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Speaker 2: pants and they send him on his way. I think

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Speaker 2: they're sending him to try to go kill Chet Walker,

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Speaker 2: the main guy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and since he can talk like Dave, he's more

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Speaker 1: of an infiltration unit at this point.

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Speaker 2: So there is a scene that I think is supposed

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Speaker 2: to be very tense but actually was mostly funny where

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Speaker 2: Dave goes to Chet's house. Chet's not home, but Joyce

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Speaker 2: and Penny are there. He comes to the door and

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Speaker 2: Penny's like, who is it, and he goes, my name

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Speaker 2: is David Harris, Captain Harris, Homicide Squad. And she lets

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Speaker 2: him in and Joyce is like, oh, why so formal, Dave?

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Speaker 2: You sound terrible? Are you coming down with a cold?

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Speaker 2: And he's playing with pennies Dolly while Penny goes into

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Speaker 2: the kitchen to talk to her mom, and then Joyce

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Speaker 2: just happens to let She's like, oh, Chet had a

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Speaker 2: brainstorm this morning, Dave something about giving out phony information

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Speaker 2: to Buchanan about where the men and protective custody are

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Speaker 2: when actually they are at the county jail. So now

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Speaker 2: not realizing that Dave is actually Adam brain Dave, and

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Speaker 2: now Buchanan has that information, you know where he's going.

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Speaker 2: He's going to the county jail to get his revenge.

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Speaker 2: But the end of the scene finally made sense sort

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Speaker 2: of some of the lyrics from the Rocky Erickson song,

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Speaker 2: which again I'd never seen the movie before, so I

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Speaker 2: didn't know what this referred to. But there are some

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Speaker 2: lyrics that say threw the doll right down, ripped its

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Speaker 2: guts off, and threw it on the ground. And at

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Speaker 2: the end of the scene, Penny comes back into the room,

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Speaker 2: Dave is gone, but she finds her doll just smashed

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Speaker 2: to pieces on the floor.

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Speaker 1: If you're not familiar with the lyrics of Rocky erics

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Speaker 1: and songs, they often do have this kind of like

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Speaker 1: stream of consciousness kind of quality to them, and they

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Speaker 1: seem kind of cryptic and hard to decipher and don't

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Speaker 1: always include proper grammar, but often uses improper grammar in

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Speaker 1: ways that feel intentional and important to whatever he was

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Speaker 1: trying to get across.

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Speaker 2: Right, Like the preposition ripped its guts off instead of

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Speaker 2: out interesting and it doesn't have guts, it's a doll. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So Adam brain Dave goes to get his revenge. Buchanan

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Speaker 2: sends him to the jail where he kills the other

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Speaker 2: two witnesses. And then after that, Adam Brain Dave tries

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Speaker 2: to kill Chet because Chet gets into a car with

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Speaker 2: him and then they're like, crash the car, smash it

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Speaker 2: to pieces, but Chet jumps out of the car in

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Speaker 2: time to save himself. Though I don't know if you

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01:13:45,880 --> 01:13:49,320
Speaker 2: jump out of a speeding car, that's you're gonna get hurt.

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Speaker 2: That's not good for you.

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01:13:50,520 --> 01:13:53,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, not in movies. Though in movies you can just

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01:13:53,240 --> 01:13:54,280
Speaker 1: jump out of them and you're fine.

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Speaker 2: It's the same principle as like if you jump up

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Speaker 2: right before the crashing plane hits the ground, you'll be ok.

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Speaker 2: But after this crash, the police recover Adam brain Dave.

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Speaker 2: Adam Brain Dave is damaged, so he's no longer following

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01:14:08,080 --> 01:14:11,880
Speaker 2: orders from Buchanan. But so they like they check him

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01:14:11,880 --> 01:14:13,120
Speaker 2: out and they're like oh wow, look at all the

1343
01:14:13,200 --> 01:14:16,639
Speaker 2: electrodes in his brain. But he recovers some functionality while

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01:14:16,640 --> 01:14:19,960
Speaker 2: in the hospital does another window stunt, like he pushes

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01:14:20,000 --> 01:14:22,639
Speaker 2: the glass out of a window and then jumps out

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01:14:22,640 --> 01:14:26,960
Speaker 2: the window to shamble back to Adam brain HQ. This

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01:14:27,120 --> 01:14:30,160
Speaker 2: leads the police in the military right to the bad guys,

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Speaker 2: and then we have our final showdown. Buchanan gets mad

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01:14:33,960 --> 01:14:36,479
Speaker 2: at Steig for some reason. I don't remember why. Actually,

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01:14:36,520 --> 01:14:37,840
Speaker 2: Buchanan just kills Stig.

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01:14:38,320 --> 01:14:40,400
Speaker 1: I think then Iig finally is like, I can't take

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01:14:40,439 --> 01:14:42,400
Speaker 1: it anymore. This is too much murder. I wasn't in

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01:14:42,439 --> 01:14:44,000
Speaker 1: it for the murder. I was just in it for

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01:14:44,040 --> 01:14:48,040
Speaker 1: the resurrection of the dead. And so he brains him

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Speaker 1: with a with a some sort of eye guy Ranch

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01:14:51,240 --> 01:14:53,280
Speaker 1: or something before he can destroy the machine.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so Buchanan then he gets all of his Adam

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01:14:58,280 --> 01:15:00,880
Speaker 2: brain's active at once. There's like ten of them, and

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01:15:00,920 --> 01:15:03,360
Speaker 2: he's like, go out attack the police kill them all.

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Speaker 2: So there's a big fight where the police are all

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01:15:06,640 --> 01:15:09,759
Speaker 2: fighting with Adam brains on the lawn and then Chet

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01:15:09,800 --> 01:15:13,680
Speaker 2: has to go inside and smash up the machine. But

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01:15:13,800 --> 01:15:16,559
Speaker 2: before he can do that, Buchanan corners him and there's

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01:15:16,600 --> 01:15:20,160
Speaker 2: like a there's a showdown there. But ultimately Buchanan is

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01:15:20,280 --> 01:15:25,160
Speaker 2: destroyed by his own wrath because one of the Adam

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01:15:25,200 --> 01:15:28,960
Speaker 2: brains comes in and grabs I think it's the Adam

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01:15:29,000 --> 01:15:33,280
Speaker 2: Brain Dave maybe comes in and grabs Buchanan and strangles him.

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Speaker 2: He kills him.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, destroyed by his own Adam brains. A fitting ending there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And then they destroy the Adam ray machine and

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Speaker 2: that powers down all of the Adam Brains on the

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Speaker 2: lawn and good prevails over evil.

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Speaker 1: Pretty pretty solid ending, mostly by the books. I loved

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Speaker 1: the battle on the lawn between the Adam Brains and

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Speaker 1: the law and military. It was better than I expected

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01:15:59,200 --> 01:16:01,120
Speaker 1: it to be. And again you get the people, you know,

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Speaker 1: firing bullets through the Adam brains and a lot of

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01:16:05,280 --> 01:16:09,200
Speaker 1: like crunching and so forth. But then we close things

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01:16:09,200 --> 01:16:12,960
Speaker 1: out though with the family unit at the dinner table

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01:16:14,160 --> 01:16:16,920
Speaker 1: with with with Chet and his family.

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Speaker 2: And that's enough of that. Yeah.

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01:16:18,640 --> 01:16:22,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, And we get this super weird ending where the

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Speaker 1: little girl what's her name, Henrietta.

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Speaker 2: No, Henrietta is the doll that got stripped off. The

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Speaker 2: girl is Penny.

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Speaker 1: Penny, yes, sorry, Penny is asking about Uncle Dave. She's like,

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Speaker 1: where's Uncle Dave? And they don't tell her that he's dead.

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01:16:38,160 --> 01:16:41,360
Speaker 1: They're like, oh, he's gone for a little while, which

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01:16:41,400 --> 01:16:44,800
Speaker 1: is crazy, right, because it's one thing to you know,

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Speaker 1: obviously you want to keep it age appropriate. You don't

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Speaker 1: have to tell her that a career criminal and a

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01:16:49,520 --> 01:16:53,040
Speaker 1: mad scientist murdered him and then stuffed his brain with

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01:16:53,120 --> 01:16:56,240
Speaker 1: electrodes and reanimated his corpse and made it do murders.

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01:16:56,760 --> 01:16:59,639
Speaker 1: But to just be like, oh, the Uncle Dave went

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01:16:59,680 --> 01:17:02,200
Speaker 1: away for littlely, he's on a vacation. No, no, Uncle

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01:17:02,280 --> 01:17:05,120
Speaker 1: Dave is dead, Like, at least tell her he's dead.

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Speaker 2: He went up to an Adam farm upstate.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's so weird, and perhaps you know, telling of

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01:17:14,320 --> 01:17:19,040
Speaker 1: how you know, we approached the protection of our children

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Speaker 1: in previous decades. I don't know.

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Speaker 2: All right, Well that's all I gotta say about creature

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01:17:23,720 --> 01:17:26,320
Speaker 2: with the Adam brain. Why is he acting so strange?

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01:17:26,320 --> 01:17:28,320
Speaker 2: It's because he is a creature with an Adam brain.

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01:17:28,520 --> 01:17:29,719
Speaker 2: The mystery is solved.

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Speaker 1: Ah, yeah, it's it's a it's a fun one. If

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01:17:32,600 --> 01:17:36,920
Speaker 1: you enjoy fifties B movies, this is a solid and

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01:17:37,040 --> 01:17:39,800
Speaker 1: entertaining good time. You know it's again it's not not

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01:17:40,000 --> 01:17:44,639
Speaker 1: top tier for genre and time period, but but pretty solid.

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Speaker 1: It's never boring. Uh, there's a lot, a lot to

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Speaker 1: love here. As always, we'd love to hear from everyone

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Speaker 1: out there if you have thoughts on the movie of

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Speaker 1: the week, Creature with the Adam Brain, if you have

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Speaker 1: thoughts on the music of Rocky ericson as it relates

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Speaker 1: to this movie, or just in general, well yeah, right

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Speaker 1: in we'd love to hear from you about that as well.

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Speaker 1: I'll definitely do a blog post for this movie because

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Speaker 1: I want to make sure that I throw in somewhere

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Speaker 1: where you can stream that Rocky ericson song and compare

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Speaker 1: it to the film.

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