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Speaker 1: Um uh, you know, just everything's very um. I don't

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Speaker 1: Nobody is here to do anything but work, so that

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Speaker 1: We are what do they say, blessed and highly favored.

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Speaker 1: That's true, that's us know. The coolest thing that is

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Speaker 1: we saw so many friends this week. Molly was in

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Speaker 1: In the course of seeing her, I had to get

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Speaker 1: And the best part of moving is when you come

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Speaker 1: hello to her, right, Hey, Sammy, and listen regularly. Samy

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Speaker 1: and I were just talking yesterday because she texted me

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Speaker 1: tell you, guys about tourist Sitana, who is the lead

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Speaker 1: star of the nineteen seventies cult classic B movie Faster

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Speaker 1: She was a busty and beautiful Japanese American woman. She

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Speaker 1: had an incredibly tough childhood, but that made her an

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Speaker 1: She had a black belt in karate. She passed info

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Speaker 1: to tell you about her. So Faster Eli record recall,

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Speaker 1: Let's go and let's go. Hey the French, come listen. Well,

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Speaker 1: Eli and Diana got some stories to tell. There's no

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Speaker 1: matchmaking a romantic tips. It's just about ridiculous relationships, a love.

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Speaker 1: I Heart Radio. Tua was born Toura Yamaguchi in in Hokkaido, Japan.

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Speaker 1: Her mother was a native American and Scotch Irish circus performer,

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Speaker 1: According to Edmund Valen's blog Mafia History, Toura eventually started

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Speaker 1: He was a top target of the FBI. Sitana developed

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Speaker 1: we done? I like to get back in the time

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Speaker 1: machine take it all back. Oh god, but we'll still

425
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Speaker 1: have our memories, I hope right in tell us which

426
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Speaker 1: party you would go to with the time machine in history,

427
00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:04,320
Speaker 1: because I would. I would love those answers. Well, we'll

428
00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:05,879
Speaker 1: read them out on the show. We have had a

429
00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:08,200
Speaker 1: few parties on our show that we have said we

430
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Speaker 1: would go too, So I would definitely love to hear

431
00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:14,160
Speaker 1: what y'all think, Okay, and then Toura Stanna's daughter Kalani,

432
00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:17,919
Speaker 1: was born in ninety seven, when Tura was nineteen, and

433
00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:21,960
Speaker 1: her second daughter, Jade Kim, was born in nineteen sixty nine. Now,

434
00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:25,840
Speaker 1: Tura claims that her baby daddy's are jazz crooner Tony

435
00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:30,440
Speaker 1: Bennett and The Birds actor Rod Taylor, but she does

436
00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:34,399
Speaker 1: not specify which kid belongs to which dad anywhere that

437
00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:37,320
Speaker 1: we could find um. The only thing I could see

438
00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:42,280
Speaker 1: was who somebody asked if her daughter had a Australian accent,

439
00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:46,320
Speaker 1: and she said, because Rod Taylor is Australian and she

440
00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:48,760
Speaker 1: said no, but Rod Taylor didn't either when I was

441
00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:55,639
Speaker 1: with him. Also, do they know that accents are genetic? Okay?

442
00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:57,560
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't know. Well, it was actually

443
00:25:57,600 --> 00:25:59,479
Speaker 1: a really cute little ride up where he was like

444
00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:02,760
Speaker 1: he was meeting her after screening, and he was super nervous,

445
00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:04,280
Speaker 1: and he was like, I was just trying to think

446
00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:06,680
Speaker 1: of something cool to say because I really idolized her.

447
00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:09,280
Speaker 1: And why you're the lamest person ever when you're around

448
00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:11,439
Speaker 1: someone that you adolized. Just like the only thing I

449
00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:14,960
Speaker 1: could think of which I find relatable. I wonder what

450
00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:17,679
Speaker 1: Tony Bennett has got to say about this, right, And

451
00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:19,800
Speaker 1: I did. I did look at Tony Bennett and Rod

452
00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:23,000
Speaker 1: Taylor's Wikipedia pages at least, and no mention of Tura

453
00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:25,280
Speaker 1: on either of them, or any kids like with her

454
00:26:25,359 --> 00:26:28,080
Speaker 1: or anything. So again, it's you know, who knows what

455
00:26:28,359 --> 00:26:31,119
Speaker 1: she's embellishing or what they are willing to admit to,

456
00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:35,879
Speaker 1: or what cares take it all a face value. Well,

457
00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:38,119
Speaker 1: I was kind of like pretty much everyone involved. I

458
00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:40,399
Speaker 1: mean Tony Bennett is still with us. I believe pretty

459
00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:47,119
Speaker 1: much everyone involved as Dead's like, who cares? I fucked Elvis? Fine, okay,

460
00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:50,200
Speaker 1: you say so. So. Toura's on screen career really started

461
00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:52,480
Speaker 1: to kick off in the early nineteen sixties. She's she's

462
00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:55,400
Speaker 1: doing all this stuff before she's even the right indi

463
00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:58,240
Speaker 1: wire dot Com writes that she quote earned her guild

464
00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:01,399
Speaker 1: card on the TV show Hawai, I and I after

465
00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:04,119
Speaker 1: being spotted dancing at the Los Angeles Follies by a

466
00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:07,080
Speaker 1: Warner Brothers scout. In this she would have played a

467
00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:10,920
Speaker 1: sexy secretary in nine nine, but it must be said

468
00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:12,760
Speaker 1: that if she was on that show, it was never

469
00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:16,480
Speaker 1: listed on her IMDb credits page. Most sources say that

470
00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:18,959
Speaker 1: her first on screen role was actually in the Shirley

471
00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:23,480
Speaker 1: McClain Jack Lemmon movie musical Irma La Douce. The story

472
00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:25,879
Speaker 1: is that the director of this movie, Billy Wilder, and

473
00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:28,280
Speaker 1: his wife decided to go hang out at the Pink

474
00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:30,960
Speaker 1: Pussycat in West Hollywood one night when Toura happened to

475
00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:33,720
Speaker 1: be dancing and they were just like totally enraptured with

476
00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:36,160
Speaker 1: her performance. They realized that she was the perfect person

477
00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:39,760
Speaker 1: to play Suzette Wong, who was one of Irma's fellow

478
00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:43,040
Speaker 1: Parisian prostitutes in the movie. Toura told Ruth Stein in

479
00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:45,800
Speaker 1: an interview for s f gate dot Com that she

480
00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:50,199
Speaker 1: had the same number of costumes as Shirley McClain, saying quote,

481
00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:52,879
Speaker 1: I had one with Tassel's hanging off the end of

482
00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:59,840
Speaker 1: my boobs. Billy just loved those things, Billy Wilder Tassel fan.

483
00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:03,440
Speaker 1: After that role, she landed another cameo as a stripper

484
00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:08,199
Speaker 1: in Dean Martin's Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed. I

485
00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:11,760
Speaker 1: love the names of movies, old movie and probably a

486
00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:14,560
Speaker 1: question Dean Martin asked all the time, Like he said,

487
00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:17,640
Speaker 1: who that um Natura is also uncredited for that role

488
00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:20,359
Speaker 1: in in Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? But she

489
00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:24,480
Speaker 1: apparently also was the choreographer for Carol Burnett in that,

490
00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:26,240
Speaker 1: which would be so dope just to work with Carol

491
00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:29,960
Speaker 1: Burnett for an hour. She also got other roles in

492
00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:33,240
Speaker 1: television shows like Burke's Law and The Man from Uncle

493
00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:37,680
Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty four, which crossover Alert also featured a

494
00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:41,880
Speaker 1: very young Kurt Russell. Hey, Hey, we know him from

495
00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:45,400
Speaker 1: our episode about him that's right, and then Goldie, but

496
00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:49,000
Speaker 1: it was softcore King russ Meyer who gave her her

497
00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:52,400
Speaker 1: most famous role. And while she was working on Irma Deduce,

498
00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:55,000
Speaker 1: she got the call to come read for Russ's movie

499
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:59,080
Speaker 1: Leather Girls, and Indy Wire says she didn't have time

500
00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:02,240
Speaker 1: to change between work and the audition, so she showed

501
00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:04,520
Speaker 1: up in the wedding dress she was wearing for the

502
00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:07,080
Speaker 1: film and he handed her the script. He asked her

503
00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:10,080
Speaker 1: how she'd play it. She responded, quote, I'd make her

504
00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:14,360
Speaker 1: kind of feminine but also a bitch on wheels. After

505
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:18,960
Speaker 1: her cold read, russ told her, quote, you are definitely Varla,

506
00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:21,280
Speaker 1: and she got the part and the title of the

507
00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:25,680
Speaker 1: film was changed to Faster Pussycat Kill Kill, which is

508
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:28,120
Speaker 1: a great title. It's so great and I don't I

509
00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:29,920
Speaker 1: don't know if y'all have seen this, but it is

510
00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:34,520
Speaker 1: just the wackiest movie. Yeah, it's this whole kind of

511
00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:39,040
Speaker 1: style of filmmaking. You're into it or you're not, that's

512
00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:41,240
Speaker 1: for sure. And I was not for a while, but

513
00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:44,520
Speaker 1: I came to appreciate this kind of stuff. It is

514
00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:49,040
Speaker 1: so campy and ridiculous, overacted and crazy, but it is

515
00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:53,040
Speaker 1: really fun. It's just shouting every line like there's no

516
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:58,360
Speaker 1: subtlety to the performance. There's no like the story. Yeah,

517
00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:02,400
Speaker 1: there's no subtext. This was a sexploitation B movie and

518
00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:06,080
Speaker 1: it basically kicked off the female action hero. The tagline

519
00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:13,120
Speaker 1: was women Belted, buck olden booted, and it was just

520
00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:17,880
Speaker 1: unlike anything movie audiences had ever seen before. It's probably

521
00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:20,280
Speaker 1: unlike anything you've seen now unless you've seen the many

522
00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:24,360
Speaker 1: things copying it. You know, since then, Varla her character

523
00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:27,560
Speaker 1: was the leader of a killer girl gang of go

524
00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:31,240
Speaker 1: go dancers. Yes, I love it already. During the movie

525
00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:35,360
Speaker 1: as Days Digital Rights, she quote drag races across the desert,

526
00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:39,160
Speaker 1: unleashes some of the cattist one liners to have hit celluloid,

527
00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:44,800
Speaker 1: most of them improvised, and generally kicks patriarchal ass. Now

528
00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:48,560
Speaker 1: the movie, you know, it didn't win any Oscars. It

529
00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:53,960
Speaker 1: should not, but it did have a major influence on

530
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:59,400
Speaker 1: filmmakers like John Waters and Quentin Tarantino got John Waters especially,

531
00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:02,560
Speaker 1: I mean this just like his whole vibe absolutely King

532
00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:05,880
Speaker 1: of King of filth Right. Critic Roger Ebert once wrote,

533
00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:09,720
Speaker 1: quote what attracts audiences is not sex and not really

534
00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:14,320
Speaker 1: violence either, but a pop art fantasy image of powerful women,

535
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:17,360
Speaker 1: filmed with high energy and exaggerated in a way that

536
00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:22,440
Speaker 1: seems bizarre and unnatural until you realize Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone,

537
00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:25,360
Speaker 1: Jean Claude Van Dam and Steven Seagal play more or

538
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:28,400
Speaker 1: less the same characters without the bras. Of course, maybe

539
00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:31,600
Speaker 1: they should have the bad but I think thought about

540
00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:37,240
Speaker 1: that Sylvester Stallone changed the format a little now that

541
00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:40,000
Speaker 1: Arnold would wear one, but Stephen would not. Steven Seagal

542
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:43,640
Speaker 1: would never agreed. Well, Arnold was great at teasing himself,

543
00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:46,600
Speaker 1: like finding the comedy in his own image. That's one

544
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:49,480
Speaker 1: of the best things about Arnold's movies, especially as comedies.

545
00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:52,280
Speaker 1: It's like he knows how silly he is. And yeah,

546
00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:57,440
Speaker 1: you're right, Seagal way too self serious. Yeah, but I

547
00:31:57,440 --> 00:31:59,920
Speaker 1: think this is such a great quote from obviously Roger,

548
00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:03,960
Speaker 1: who knows what he's talking about. Um that it's not

549
00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:08,400
Speaker 1: really all that different from something like Commando or Cliffhanger

550
00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:12,200
Speaker 1: or something where it's kind of ridiculous, right, I think

551
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:15,640
Speaker 1: it's I think Myers movies are a little more frenetic,

552
00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:19,000
Speaker 1: you know, a little more chaotic, and admit a little

553
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:22,320
Speaker 1: more of their own silliness. Yeah, but I think there's

554
00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:25,680
Speaker 1: a lot of similarities there, and you're like, well, how

555
00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:28,360
Speaker 1: can you like it when he does it? Yeah, it

556
00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:32,320
Speaker 1: would be interesting to see, uh, something like Faster Pussycat

557
00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:36,720
Speaker 1: but made by a team of women, because at first,

558
00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:38,960
Speaker 1: like Commando and stuff like that, are made by teams

559
00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:43,560
Speaker 1: of men, so their idea of hyper masculinization and stuff

560
00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:47,040
Speaker 1: is all playing out. This is still sort of russ Meyer,

561
00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:49,880
Speaker 1: you know, there's still a male gaze element to it.

562
00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:52,680
Speaker 1: I guess you didn't know that Commando is directed by

563
00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:57,800
Speaker 1: Jane Campion. Wow, I had no. I would totally watch

564
00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:03,960
Speaker 1: Jane Campion's version of command Can you imagine now? Varla

565
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:07,720
Speaker 1: in Faster Pussycat was also a revolutionary role in the

566
00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:11,440
Speaker 1: way that it pushed back against existing stereotypes of Asian women.

567
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:15,920
Speaker 1: Even in Toura's burlesque act, which obviously played on audiences

568
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:18,520
Speaker 1: geisha girl fantasies. You know, she's in a kimono, she's

569
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:21,600
Speaker 1: dancing with a Buddha. She's definitely playing into that. But

570
00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:24,920
Speaker 1: it didn't adhere to the stereotypes because she had these

571
00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:29,080
Speaker 1: incredible costuming and authentic martial arts moves. And a lot

572
00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:31,880
Speaker 1: of sly humor that she incorporated that kind of lifted,

573
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:35,160
Speaker 1: kind of elevated it from just regular Geisha girl stuff

574
00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:39,640
Speaker 1: days Digital writes, quote as a fearsome protagonist, a faster pussycat.

575
00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:43,320
Speaker 1: She smashed through the Hollywood stereotype of Asian women being

576
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:48,600
Speaker 1: sexually available and submissive, crushing dull all American boys under

577
00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:53,280
Speaker 1: her knee high boots. And you know, it would be

578
00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:55,920
Speaker 1: wrong to give creator and director russ Meyer all the

579
00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:58,640
Speaker 1: credit for this, because even he said that he and

580
00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:03,360
Speaker 1: Tura Satana aid Faster Pussycat together, and apparently he was

581
00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:06,320
Speaker 1: not great at sharing credit, so that was quite something

582
00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:10,239
Speaker 1: for him to shout her out. Um. And it makes

583
00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:13,560
Speaker 1: sense because she performed her own stunts, She choreographed her

584
00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:16,920
Speaker 1: fight scenes and several other people's fight scenes, and she

585
00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:20,920
Speaker 1: ad libbed most of Varla's best lines. For example, in

586
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:24,000
Speaker 1: one scene, a guy is like ogling her cleavage as

587
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:27,720
Speaker 1: he talks about wanting to see America and tour retorts. Quote,

588
00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:36,799
Speaker 1: you won't find it down there, Columbus, turn those three

589
00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:44,000
Speaker 1: ships around. Amazing how russ Meyer apparently had a rule

590
00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:46,680
Speaker 1: that no one was allowed to have sex while they

591
00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:49,400
Speaker 1: were making this movie. It's probably just to avoid a

592
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:55,560
Speaker 1: bunch of problems between actors because drama rama. But Toura refused.

593
00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:59,120
Speaker 1: According to ruth Stein, she said, quote, I told him

594
00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:01,360
Speaker 1: I had to have sex every day because otherwise I

595
00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:04,239
Speaker 1: get very frustrated. He said, we're filming in the middle

596
00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:05,880
Speaker 1: of a desert. Where are you going to find anyone?

597
00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:11,799
Speaker 1: I said, that's my problem. Get some That's funny. I

598
00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:15,879
Speaker 1: had read it. That's my that's my problem. I don't

599
00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:21,160
Speaker 1: know either way. It's great, that's my problem, my problem.

600
00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:25,000
Speaker 1: You don't worry about that. I'll take care of that part.

601
00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:29,960
Speaker 1: The film itself cost forty dollars to make. It came

602
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:32,319
Speaker 1: out in the summer of nineteen sixty five and it

603
00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:36,440
Speaker 1: became a cult classic. And she never worked with Russa

604
00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:38,719
Speaker 1: Meyer again. But she was cast in two Ted V.

605
00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:43,919
Speaker 1: Michael's movies, The Astro Zombies in Night and The Doll

606
00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:48,080
Speaker 1: Squad in ninety three. I have not seen those two

607
00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:50,840
Speaker 1: me neither, and I did. I did read an article

608
00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:54,480
Speaker 1: that said, like Fastro Zombies is is like not as

609
00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:57,320
Speaker 1: good as Faster pussy Cats. It's like even more campy

610
00:35:57,360 --> 00:35:59,399
Speaker 1: and stuff. But her character and it is apparently really

611
00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:03,120
Speaker 1: cool um. But another just very just two very b

612
00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:06,520
Speaker 1: movie style stuff, and apparently rest Meyer did regret never

613
00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:09,560
Speaker 1: casting her again. He wished that they had worked together

614
00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:14,160
Speaker 1: because that movie is still being talked about. Yeah, you

615
00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:18,640
Speaker 1: might have wanted her by your side. But look, tourists

616
00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:22,400
Speaker 1: got all this experience. She's been playing these badass killers,

617
00:36:23,120 --> 00:36:26,160
Speaker 1: and she was actually more like Varla than anyone realized

618
00:36:26,239 --> 00:36:29,520
Speaker 1: because she took all that knowledge and experience and then

619
00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:34,520
Speaker 1: she spent fifteen years tracking down each and every one

620
00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:39,799
Speaker 1: of her childhood rapists to exact some sweet revenge. Yeah,

621
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Speaker 1: and we'll get into those breaks right after this break.

622
00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:52,000
Speaker 1: Welcome back, everybody. So yeah, not only did to reform

623
00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:55,160
Speaker 1: her own girl gang as a kid again. They were

624
00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:57,920
Speaker 1: called the Angels, and they were like motorcycle jackets and

625
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:00,640
Speaker 1: jeans and boots, wandered around trying to beat the ass

626
00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:04,200
Speaker 1: of any dude trying to get fresh um. But she

627
00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:07,440
Speaker 1: was also determined that her own rapists would get some

628
00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:09,960
Speaker 1: form of justice, even if it had to come from

629
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:13,720
Speaker 1: her own fists. She said it took around fifteen years

630
00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:16,200
Speaker 1: for her to track them all down. And while there's

631
00:37:16,239 --> 00:37:19,440
Speaker 1: not a lot of detail out there, Tura did describe

632
00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:23,640
Speaker 1: some of her punishments to Michael Musto in interview for

633
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:27,120
Speaker 1: Village Voice. They included taking off pieces of skin with

634
00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:30,080
Speaker 1: her nails, kicking one guy in the face and in

635
00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:34,040
Speaker 1: the crops, and hanging another guy by his genitals so

636
00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:39,160
Speaker 1: he now speaks quote in a very high voice. She

637
00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:42,000
Speaker 1: also said quote they never knew who I was until

638
00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:46,440
Speaker 1: I told them, And I mean, this is the movie

639
00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:48,879
Speaker 1: I want to watch because you could just see her

640
00:37:49,239 --> 00:37:54,040
Speaker 1: like heavy winged eyeliner, big hair, you know, badass leather outfit,

641
00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:58,400
Speaker 1: standing over some piece of ship, being like, remember a

642
00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:01,040
Speaker 1: ten year old girl you raped in your car? Well,

643
00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:04,359
Speaker 1: guess what, bitch, she's me and she's about to rip

644
00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:10,040
Speaker 1: your dick off. Right, you won't find it down there.

645
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:16,640
Speaker 1: Columbus Wolf, Yeah, do it, go get them. I love it.

646
00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:19,879
Speaker 1: I think that is true. Again. I hope that it's true,

647
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:24,319
Speaker 1: and I hope she was very sure, exactly right right,

648
00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:27,239
Speaker 1: very good points. But I guess if they went through

649
00:38:27,239 --> 00:38:30,920
Speaker 1: a whole like court situation, she probably has their faces

650
00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:33,880
Speaker 1: pretty clearly in her mind. She might have had a

651
00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:38,000
Speaker 1: couple of connections at the old FBI. Still very true

652
00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:42,919
Speaker 1: or mob connections either way. Connect Yeah, that's absolutely true.

653
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:45,480
Speaker 1: After the movie the doll Squad wrapped up to her

654
00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:47,560
Speaker 1: decided that she was going to leave show business and

655
00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:50,480
Speaker 1: spend more time with her daughter's Klanni and Jade. She

656
00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:52,960
Speaker 1: got back into nursing, which she had actually intended to

657
00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:54,839
Speaker 1: go into when she was in high school. She got

658
00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:57,400
Speaker 1: a job at a hospital, but she did continue dancing.

659
00:38:58,239 --> 00:39:01,480
Speaker 1: But then an ex boyfriend showed up at her club

660
00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:04,799
Speaker 1: and shot at her twice. He hit her once in

661
00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:09,040
Speaker 1: the stomach. By the time, and no word on which

662
00:39:09,120 --> 00:39:12,759
Speaker 1: ex boyfriend, and we assume it wasn't Elvis No, in fact,

663
00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:17,719
Speaker 1: no mention to his biography. I shot a lady in

664
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:22,799
Speaker 1: the top bustlerman. I commutely left that part out. By

665
00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:25,200
Speaker 1: the time that tour was out of the hospital, she

666
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:28,080
Speaker 1: decided to give up dancing as well, and according to

667
00:39:28,080 --> 00:39:31,319
Speaker 1: The Guardian, changes were made to California licensing laws that

668
00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:34,360
Speaker 1: made most nightclub owners decide that everyone would have to

669
00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:38,120
Speaker 1: perform topless. But Toura. She really liked those tassels that

670
00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:41,399
Speaker 1: she wore, so she said, nuts to that, not doing it.

671
00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:44,399
Speaker 1: I'm done. I'm a burlesque dancer. I don't do all

672
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:47,840
Speaker 1: that ship. No nips from me, no nips from Sitana.

673
00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:51,360
Speaker 1: She worked as a nurse and later as a police

674
00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:54,279
Speaker 1: dispatch operator for the l A p D. And maybe

675
00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:58,200
Speaker 1: that's how she met her second husband, Endil German, former

676
00:39:58,239 --> 00:40:01,640
Speaker 1: police officer, who she married in Nate Team one. What

677
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:06,200
Speaker 1: a life like starting out as a dancer at the

678
00:40:06,239 --> 00:40:11,799
Speaker 1: Trocadero and a swimsuit model. You get some time in Hollywood,

679
00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:15,640
Speaker 1: some time with the mob, and then you become a dispatcher.

680
00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:21,440
Speaker 1: It's so weird. I love looking at like one time

681
00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:24,360
Speaker 1: movie stars, you know, people who were like, oh the

682
00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:26,960
Speaker 1: you know, just just one hit wonders, you know, and

683
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:29,040
Speaker 1: then like they got out of the business, and you're like,

684
00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:31,520
Speaker 1: what are they doing now? Oh they're a vet. Yeah,

685
00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:34,759
Speaker 1: oh they work at a at the stockyards. Like it

686
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:38,280
Speaker 1: could be people got to continue having lives. No, very true.

687
00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:43,160
Speaker 1: They're like real estate agent, like Vanilla. Oh yeah, like

688
00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:48,239
Speaker 1: just like Vanilla. And not long after she married Andel German, though,

689
00:40:48,560 --> 00:40:51,839
Speaker 1: Toura was hit by a car um It was going

690
00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:55,239
Speaker 1: sixty miles per hour in per hour zone and the

691
00:40:55,320 --> 00:40:59,719
Speaker 1: driver was unlicensed and it broke her back. Tour spent

692
00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:02,600
Speaker 1: two years in and out of the hospital recovering. She

693
00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:08,080
Speaker 1: required two major operations and around fifteen smaller ones um

694
00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:10,720
Speaker 1: and her doctors warned her that she may never walk again,

695
00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:14,040
Speaker 1: but Tora, of course replied, quote, not only will I

696
00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:16,560
Speaker 1: walk again, Doc, but I'm gonna do everything else I

697
00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:22,840
Speaker 1: used to do Columbus, Columbus, That's right. And aside, you

698
00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:25,799
Speaker 1: know from her impressive martial arts moves, she did keep

699
00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:28,360
Speaker 1: that promise. She couldn't quite you know, do the kicks

700
00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:30,840
Speaker 1: and crazy ship that she used to do. But otherwise

701
00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:33,279
Speaker 1: she she walked and ran around. She did her her

702
00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:36,640
Speaker 1: regular life, so awesome. Nice job to ra She went

703
00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:40,200
Speaker 1: on to work hotel security and Reno Nevada, so she

704
00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:43,560
Speaker 1: must have had an okay back to drag those drunks

705
00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:47,040
Speaker 1: out of the casino sometimes. But honestly, her smartest move

706
00:41:47,120 --> 00:41:49,839
Speaker 1: was to trademark her own name and image, which meant

707
00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:53,800
Speaker 1: anytime russ Meyer reissued Faster Pussycat or altered the poster,

708
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:58,120
Speaker 1: he had to pay her. Again. Smart Now, at first,

709
00:41:58,120 --> 00:42:00,200
Speaker 1: it's probably didn't matter because the movie was a up

710
00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:03,120
Speaker 1: but it became a cult classic over the years, and

711
00:42:03,239 --> 00:42:07,000
Speaker 1: besides all the ubiquitous T shirts and poster prints, Tura

712
00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:10,080
Speaker 1: also ended up cashing in on a Halloween mask and

713
00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:14,520
Speaker 1: an action figure. Hell yeah, please make me an action figure. Now.

714
00:42:14,560 --> 00:42:17,560
Speaker 1: A lot of opinions about the movie Faster Pussycat have

715
00:42:17,800 --> 00:42:21,440
Speaker 1: changed with time, like this. One feminist film critic be

716
00:42:21,640 --> 00:42:25,759
Speaker 1: Ruby Rich, who coined the term new Queer Cinema, saw

717
00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:28,040
Speaker 1: the movie when it came out and she said she

718
00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:31,520
Speaker 1: was quote absolutely outraged that I had been forced to

719
00:42:31,560 --> 00:42:35,279
Speaker 1: watch this misogynist film that objectified women and that was

720
00:42:35,320 --> 00:42:39,120
Speaker 1: really just short of softcore porn. But then she watched

721
00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:42,239
Speaker 1: it again in the ninety nineties and she quote just

722
00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:45,760
Speaker 1: loved it and ended up doing a whole talk about

723
00:42:45,960 --> 00:42:49,520
Speaker 1: how films get edited by history because the movie was

724
00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:52,080
Speaker 1: one thing in the seventies and then in what she

725
00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:55,560
Speaker 1: called the quote heyday of queer culture in the nineties,

726
00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:58,719
Speaker 1: it met something completely different. I thought that was a

727
00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:02,160
Speaker 1: really interesting point, Like sometimes you make a movie and

728
00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:05,359
Speaker 1: it just isn't for its own time, but as time

729
00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:08,840
Speaker 1: goes on, it becomes more and more appreciated, um and

730
00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:12,160
Speaker 1: because culture changes around it. So I found that really

731
00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:15,200
Speaker 1: fascinating or less appreciated. You know, the other flip side

732
00:43:15,239 --> 00:43:17,759
Speaker 1: being you you watch it. You know, there's so many

733
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:20,640
Speaker 1: movies now that people are like, I can't even like

734
00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:23,520
Speaker 1: two thousands era comedies and stuff. You're like, I can't

735
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:26,239
Speaker 1: even watch it's so uncomfortable. I laughed my ass off

736
00:43:26,239 --> 00:43:28,719
Speaker 1: at the time. And now it's just like I can't

737
00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:32,279
Speaker 1: stop thinking about, you know, things I've heard about how

738
00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:35,160
Speaker 1: people are harmed by this kind of language or this

739
00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:37,799
Speaker 1: or movies like this or whatever. And you're like, well,

740
00:43:38,239 --> 00:43:40,840
Speaker 1: it's okay that I laughed at this then and don't

741
00:43:40,840 --> 00:43:44,200
Speaker 1: want to now, Like that's that's all. Yeah, the context

742
00:43:44,280 --> 00:43:46,520
Speaker 1: of your entire world that you're existing and has changed,

743
00:43:46,560 --> 00:43:49,120
Speaker 1: and that's okay. I saw and Reddit the other day

744
00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:52,880
Speaker 1: people talking about movies that have you know, aged in

745
00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:55,920
Speaker 1: different ways like we're talking about, and somebody was like,

746
00:43:56,239 --> 00:43:58,080
Speaker 1: you know, had brought up Blazing Saddles and they were,

747
00:43:58,200 --> 00:44:00,359
Speaker 1: you know, really hard defending it. A lot of people

748
00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:02,680
Speaker 1: were almost no one was attacking it. Um, but I

749
00:44:02,719 --> 00:44:05,080
Speaker 1: know you and I saw Blazing Saddles for the first

750
00:44:05,120 --> 00:44:08,800
Speaker 1: time fairly recently. I think I had seen it before,

751
00:44:09,280 --> 00:44:11,400
Speaker 1: but but you had not, right, And um, and I

752
00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:13,200
Speaker 1: love mel Brooks. I mean, I like, when I was

753
00:44:13,239 --> 00:44:15,520
Speaker 1: a kid, Robin Hoodmen in Tights and Spaceballs were like

754
00:44:15,520 --> 00:44:18,040
Speaker 1: my favorite movies. But I just never got around to

755
00:44:18,160 --> 00:44:21,840
Speaker 1: that one, and while I'm like, yeah, I mean, people defend,

756
00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:25,239
Speaker 1: they're They're like, this was a really brilliant movie, and

757
00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:27,640
Speaker 1: it is. It's it's funny, it's got a lot of

758
00:44:27,640 --> 00:44:31,399
Speaker 1: commentary that's very biting and uh, you know, can work

759
00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:34,600
Speaker 1: really well in some context. And also just for me

760
00:44:34,680 --> 00:44:36,040
Speaker 1: at the time that I saw it, it it was kind

761
00:44:36,040 --> 00:44:39,160
Speaker 1: of hard to watch. And I'm you know, not I'm

762
00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:41,200
Speaker 1: going to tell anybody they're wrong for liking it or

763
00:44:41,280 --> 00:44:45,040
Speaker 1: or or vice versa. It's just also subjective art people,

764
00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:48,920
Speaker 1: you know, Yeah, it's hard to have a wrong opinion

765
00:44:48,960 --> 00:44:51,719
Speaker 1: about art. Yeah, the point is that you're you get

766
00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:53,919
Speaker 1: to look at it and react to it. Period. You've

767
00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:55,680
Speaker 1: got to let people love things, and you've got to

768
00:44:55,760 --> 00:44:58,879
Speaker 1: let people hate things. You know. I used to who

769
00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:00,720
Speaker 1: I used to get pretty frustra it at when people

770
00:45:01,160 --> 00:45:04,840
Speaker 1: didn't like something that I liked, and really brought up

771
00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:06,520
Speaker 1: myself a lot of peace when I was like, it's

772
00:45:06,520 --> 00:45:11,520
Speaker 1: okay again. You know, in terms of the collective human experience,

773
00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:15,720
Speaker 1: how lame is it if we all liked and dislike

774
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:18,120
Speaker 1: the same things. I mean, why are we all live

775
00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:21,879
Speaker 1: in the same life here? People? Very true? Very true.

776
00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:24,399
Speaker 1: Although I do love the scene in Blazing Saddles when

777
00:45:24,400 --> 00:45:28,200
Speaker 1: he holds himself hostage and kind of doing both stereotypes

778
00:45:28,239 --> 00:45:30,680
Speaker 1: of black people at the same time, and it was

779
00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:33,520
Speaker 1: It's so clever. And it does help to know that

780
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:36,920
Speaker 1: Richard Pryor wrote like all of all of that characters

781
00:45:36,960 --> 00:45:39,439
Speaker 1: stuff and everything and not melt brooksitt here like throwing

782
00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:42,759
Speaker 1: the N word around. Um, But but I feel you.

783
00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:44,680
Speaker 1: We did watch him. We were like, hey, yeah, yeah,

784
00:45:44,719 --> 00:45:49,000
Speaker 1: he would just have to do it differently today, that's all. Well,

785
00:45:49,440 --> 00:45:51,200
Speaker 1: he wanted to make the same points, you would have

786
00:45:51,239 --> 00:45:53,880
Speaker 1: to do it differently. And yeah. And that's not to

787
00:45:53,960 --> 00:45:57,239
Speaker 1: say that like it's it shouldn't exist today or it's

788
00:45:57,280 --> 00:45:59,279
Speaker 1: wrong for existing or whatever. It's just like, yeah, you

789
00:45:59,280 --> 00:46:01,600
Speaker 1: would approach I don't even think you would have to

790
00:46:01,600 --> 00:46:02,960
Speaker 1: make a different A lot of people say, like, this

791
00:46:02,960 --> 00:46:04,840
Speaker 1: movie couldn't get made today, and I'm like, it could.

792
00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:07,080
Speaker 1: People just might not respond to it well. Or you

793
00:46:07,080 --> 00:46:10,239
Speaker 1: would find different ways to approach the same subject, you know,

794
00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:12,719
Speaker 1: because we already had Blazing Saddles, So are we not

795
00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:15,680
Speaker 1: building off of that? Right? Why would you make it today?

796
00:46:15,800 --> 00:46:18,840
Speaker 1: You couldn't make it today because Blazing Saddles already exists.

797
00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:22,800
Speaker 1: You can't make something in the vacuum of that movie

798
00:46:22,840 --> 00:46:26,240
Speaker 1: not existing because it does. But no, there's some amazing

799
00:46:26,280 --> 00:46:29,640
Speaker 1: stuff in that movie. It's it's it's clearly brilliant. Oh

800
00:46:29,640 --> 00:46:34,080
Speaker 1: we're so far off subject. Meanwhile, all that to say

801
00:46:34,160 --> 00:46:38,120
Speaker 1: be Ruby Rich changed her mind. Yes, And Meanwhile, John

802
00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:42,160
Speaker 1: Waters loved Faster Pussy Get from the get go. He

803
00:46:42,239 --> 00:46:45,360
Speaker 1: wrote that it was quote beyond a doubt, the best

804
00:46:45,440 --> 00:46:48,520
Speaker 1: movie ever made. It is possibly better than any film

805
00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:51,360
Speaker 1: that will be made in the future, and when he

806
00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:53,880
Speaker 1: watched it years later, he simply stated that it quote

807
00:46:53,920 --> 00:46:59,120
Speaker 1: aged like a fine wine. There was a rumored reboot

808
00:46:59,320 --> 00:47:02,000
Speaker 1: of Faster As You Get, Kill Kill with of course,

809
00:47:02,200 --> 00:47:07,160
Speaker 1: Quentin Tarantino attached, and he was apparently considering Brittney Spears

810
00:47:07,160 --> 00:47:10,759
Speaker 1: to come play Varla. According to Vice Now, Tourra, when

811
00:47:10,840 --> 00:47:14,000
Speaker 1: asked about this, simply said that if Tarantino ever went

812
00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:17,960
Speaker 1: through with the project, quote, I'd kill him. He'd kill

813
00:47:18,040 --> 00:47:21,160
Speaker 1: my part, so I'd kill him, And I gotta say

814
00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:24,279
Speaker 1: I believe her. I think she would straight up kill Bill.

815
00:47:24,960 --> 00:47:29,120
Speaker 1: Quentin Tarantino was kidding, but I don't know. I think

816
00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:34,279
Speaker 1: his house and five point Palm Exploding Heart track that guy, Quentin.

817
00:47:34,320 --> 00:47:39,839
Speaker 1: Tarantino was like, oh, that's what he didn't I don't think.

818
00:47:40,440 --> 00:47:42,960
Speaker 1: I do think Britney Spoons is a strange choice. Well,

819
00:47:43,040 --> 00:47:45,680
Speaker 1: he just wanted, you know. I could see where he's like,

820
00:47:45,760 --> 00:47:47,880
Speaker 1: I want someone who's not going to look like a

821
00:47:47,960 --> 00:47:51,520
Speaker 1: natural actress in this part, because that's that's how tour

822
00:47:51,600 --> 00:47:54,160
Speaker 1: uplayed it. So I could see Tarantino being like, I

823
00:47:54,200 --> 00:47:57,399
Speaker 1: want a non actress, you know, a performer. I want

824
00:47:57,400 --> 00:47:59,480
Speaker 1: a performer to play this a stage presence, but not

825
00:47:59,520 --> 00:48:03,839
Speaker 1: necessarily unbelievable, right, I guess it's more the martial arts

826
00:48:03,840 --> 00:48:07,160
Speaker 1: stuff that I'm an outside brit to do necessarily, Like

827
00:48:07,200 --> 00:48:09,200
Speaker 1: why not find a like an m M A fighter

828
00:48:09,280 --> 00:48:12,239
Speaker 1: or something? Sure, you know, I mean she's a dancer,

829
00:48:12,480 --> 00:48:14,759
Speaker 1: so she could probably do some of the moves. That's true.

830
00:48:14,840 --> 00:48:17,239
Speaker 1: She has some acrobatic skills. Maybe she could have pulled

831
00:48:17,239 --> 00:48:19,040
Speaker 1: off the vision Tarantina was looking for. I don't know.

832
00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:21,480
Speaker 1: He didn't, and we're probably better off for it. I

833
00:48:21,560 --> 00:48:23,640
Speaker 1: was about to say, it's probably best we don't know.

834
00:48:24,080 --> 00:48:27,799
Speaker 1: Toura Sitana also became a regular at cult film conventions,

835
00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:30,680
Speaker 1: of course, and even though she had a pacemaker put

836
00:48:30,719 --> 00:48:33,000
Speaker 1: in in two thousand three, she was like tougher than ever.

837
00:48:33,760 --> 00:48:36,280
Speaker 1: In one interview, she talks about being at a convention

838
00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:40,360
Speaker 1: to do a signing and one over enthusiastic fan hid

839
00:48:40,400 --> 00:48:43,600
Speaker 1: in her hotel room afterwards and then like popped out

840
00:48:43,640 --> 00:48:46,800
Speaker 1: to reveal himself. Well, guess what happened to her described

841
00:48:46,800 --> 00:48:49,760
Speaker 1: it quote, he went flying across the room and wound

842
00:48:49,840 --> 00:48:52,320
Speaker 1: up with a broken arm, busted nose, and a badly

843
00:48:52,360 --> 00:48:57,360
Speaker 1: twisted leg. The house detective carried him out. So she's like,

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Speaker 1: I'm might have a pacemaker and I might have broke

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Speaker 1: my back. So you kick your sucking ass if you

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Speaker 1: hide my room. Yeah. So yeah, Tura still kicking ass.

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Speaker 1: As the rest Meyer himself once said, quote, Tua was

848
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Speaker 1: extremely capable. She knew how to handle herself. Don't funk

849
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Speaker 1: with her, and if you have to fuck her, do

850
00:49:15,480 --> 00:49:21,120
Speaker 1: it well she might turn on you. Damn Wow, that's

851
00:49:21,280 --> 00:49:26,360
Speaker 1: uh important advice. Like listen, she told Elvis to his face,

852
00:49:26,440 --> 00:49:30,320
Speaker 1: he kissed like a wet fish, So be careful. She's

853
00:49:30,320 --> 00:49:36,719
Speaker 1: got that's my problem, that's my problems, that's my problem.

854
00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:39,520
Speaker 1: In one interview, Stana said, quote, I learned to be

855
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Speaker 1: tough because of what life kept handing me. I could

856
00:49:42,400 --> 00:49:44,600
Speaker 1: either go down for the count or I could get

857
00:49:44,680 --> 00:49:49,360
Speaker 1: up and kick ass. Words to live by Endel German.

858
00:49:49,560 --> 00:49:53,799
Speaker 1: Tora's second husband died in two thousand two. Were never remarried.

859
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Speaker 1: She passed away from heart failure on February fourth, two

860
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Speaker 1: thousand and eleven, in Reno, Nevada, leaving behind her two daughters,

861
00:50:01,840 --> 00:50:06,480
Speaker 1: Klanni and Jade, two sisters, Pamela and Kim, and a

862
00:50:06,760 --> 00:50:10,399
Speaker 1: really cool life story. Yeah for real, I mean, just

863
00:50:10,440 --> 00:50:14,040
Speaker 1: a dope legend it is. Again, I mean, obviously there's

864
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Speaker 1: questions about about you know, obviously a lot of this

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Speaker 1: came from her interviews. How she described her life, not

866
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Speaker 1: necessarily corroborated by the people she said she was interacting with.

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Speaker 1: But it's one of those stories where I'm like, I

868
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Speaker 1: don't care, Like this is a great story if you

869
00:50:32,880 --> 00:50:35,200
Speaker 1: tell me an amazing story, and then at the end

870
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Speaker 1: you're like and it's true, and we're like, Okay, that

871
00:50:37,800 --> 00:50:41,160
Speaker 1: part wasn't what I was worried about. I just thought

872
00:50:41,200 --> 00:50:44,319
Speaker 1: it was awesome. Right, It's really rad to have a

873
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Speaker 1: life where any of this could have happened, Like, even

874
00:50:47,320 --> 00:50:50,920
Speaker 1: if we don't know for sure, there she has the

875
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Speaker 1: connection she was in the right places at the right times.

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Speaker 1: You know, it is possible. And I mean if I

877
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Speaker 1: said I had done any of this, there's no chance.

878
00:51:00,120 --> 00:51:06,320
Speaker 1: So like I slept with I don't know, Ryan Gosling,

879
00:51:07,560 --> 00:51:10,680
Speaker 1: you know, be like, okay, I taught Ryan Gosling had

880
00:51:10,680 --> 00:51:16,240
Speaker 1: a kiss when we all ever and not doesn't quite

881
00:51:16,239 --> 00:51:18,839
Speaker 1: track with the what I do know to be true. Right,

882
00:51:19,239 --> 00:51:21,040
Speaker 1: But she lived a life in which any of this

883
00:51:21,160 --> 00:51:25,359
Speaker 1: could be real. She was she was really cool. I

884
00:51:25,400 --> 00:51:29,839
Speaker 1: liked Torris Sitana. She was. We gotta watch that movie again. Yes,

885
00:51:29,960 --> 00:51:32,080
Speaker 1: I do want to watch it. We did do um

886
00:51:32,239 --> 00:51:35,759
Speaker 1: once upon a time with our theater company, did a

887
00:51:35,840 --> 00:51:39,600
Speaker 1: Restmeyer send up and everybody had to wear these giant

888
00:51:39,719 --> 00:51:44,120
Speaker 1: fake boobs and big hair. It was a lot of fun.

889
00:51:44,920 --> 00:51:46,839
Speaker 1: But we I think we watched at least some of it.

890
00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:50,839
Speaker 1: We watched this whole movie. Okay, maybe even another one,

891
00:51:50,920 --> 00:51:54,719
Speaker 1: but but yeah, for research for that, you know, and

892
00:51:55,080 --> 00:51:59,359
Speaker 1: get our acting together and are aesthetics together. I mean,

893
00:51:59,400 --> 00:52:03,520
Speaker 1: our whole group was always very into like John Waters

894
00:52:03,719 --> 00:52:08,120
Speaker 1: and that kind of whole aesthetic, that camp and hyper stylized,

895
00:52:08,120 --> 00:52:10,760
Speaker 1: over the top sort of stuff. It wasn't what I

896
00:52:10,800 --> 00:52:14,200
Speaker 1: came into the group having a background in our friends,

897
00:52:14,280 --> 00:52:16,080
Speaker 1: but like our you know, our friends James and Rob

898
00:52:16,120 --> 00:52:17,600
Speaker 1: and a lot of others who were just like that

899
00:52:17,680 --> 00:52:21,560
Speaker 1: was the stuff they loved and they got us into

900
00:52:21,600 --> 00:52:24,399
Speaker 1: it too. It's it's pretty amazing. You've got to open

901
00:52:24,440 --> 00:52:27,040
Speaker 1: yourself up to it. You've got to kind of change

902
00:52:27,080 --> 00:52:30,400
Speaker 1: your vision of what a movie should look and sound

903
00:52:30,440 --> 00:52:33,279
Speaker 1: and feel, like I think, because I think it's one

904
00:52:33,280 --> 00:52:35,879
Speaker 1: of those things were very early on, not even very

905
00:52:35,880 --> 00:52:37,600
Speaker 1: early on, but like you know, even even in high

906
00:52:37,600 --> 00:52:39,640
Speaker 1: school or college, I could have watched that movie and

907
00:52:39,640 --> 00:52:43,359
Speaker 1: said this is trash. Why would you want to sit

908
00:52:43,400 --> 00:52:46,200
Speaker 1: through this? But you kind of like put that away

909
00:52:46,239 --> 00:52:49,440
Speaker 1: and say, well, wait a minute, this isn't I'm not

910
00:52:49,560 --> 00:52:54,000
Speaker 1: watching you know, Christopher Nolan. Here, I'm I'm engaging in

911
00:52:54,040 --> 00:52:57,560
Speaker 1: a completely different experience, and I shouldn't be comparing them, right,

912
00:52:57,640 --> 00:52:59,840
Speaker 1: and that they're not trying to make that right? So

913
00:53:00,280 --> 00:53:02,640
Speaker 1: did they really fail? You know what I mean? Like

914
00:53:02,719 --> 00:53:04,960
Speaker 1: russ Meyer was not trying to make Schindler's List. He

915
00:53:05,000 --> 00:53:08,920
Speaker 1: was trying to make Mr Pussycat and he succeeded, right.

916
00:53:09,080 --> 00:53:12,000
Speaker 1: I mean, it's the difference between riding on a luxury

917
00:53:12,120 --> 00:53:16,160
Speaker 1: jet and a Carnival Ride. You know, like you're not

918
00:53:16,239 --> 00:53:19,319
Speaker 1: supposed to compare them, right, exactly if you enjoy them

919
00:53:19,680 --> 00:53:26,560
Speaker 1: like Air Force one vomit over the you enjoy them

920
00:53:26,920 --> 00:53:30,520
Speaker 1: very different wys for very different reasons. Yeah, exactly exactly.

921
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Speaker 1: So I have to recommend seeing Faster Pussycat out there.

922
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Speaker 1: If anyone wants to check it out, you should, because

923
00:53:37,760 --> 00:53:41,520
Speaker 1: it is definitely a snapshot of cinema history. Also, it's

924
00:53:41,560 --> 00:53:44,920
Speaker 1: like a sixties B movie. There's nothing like them, But

925
00:53:45,000 --> 00:53:47,640
Speaker 1: there's just nothing like a sixties B movie or any

926
00:53:47,680 --> 00:53:53,720
Speaker 1: any type of exploitation felt like blaxploitation, sexploitation. They're also

927
00:53:53,840 --> 00:53:58,520
Speaker 1: interesting and have their place. Yeah, and I think also

928
00:53:58,719 --> 00:54:02,080
Speaker 1: give you a different kind of appreciation for things like

929
00:54:02,120 --> 00:54:04,239
Speaker 1: Tarantino and John Waters and stuff like that, kind of

930
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Speaker 1: seeing what was inspiring them to do things the way

931
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Speaker 1: they do them, which is very different. Um. And I

932
00:54:10,480 --> 00:54:12,680
Speaker 1: mean I'm even hit or missed with Tarantino a lot

933
00:54:12,719 --> 00:54:14,920
Speaker 1: of times. I can't stand him as a person, but

934
00:54:15,520 --> 00:54:19,600
Speaker 1: um but I've watched his movies differently after I saw

935
00:54:19,640 --> 00:54:23,080
Speaker 1: some of the sort of source material movies that he

936
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Speaker 1: relied on. Yeah, well, we hope you enjoyed this story.

937
00:54:26,000 --> 00:54:28,120
Speaker 1: As much as we did. It was so fun to

938
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Speaker 1: kind of go to the seventies and and get out

939
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Speaker 1: of the literary world. No more Western European authors this week,

940
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Speaker 1: not this week. But yeah, we hope you enjoyed her

941
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Speaker 1: as much as we did. Um. As always, we love

942
00:54:45,800 --> 00:54:47,840
Speaker 1: to hear from you. Reach out, let us know what

943
00:54:47,920 --> 00:54:50,520
Speaker 1: you thought of this episode or what parties through history

944
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Speaker 1: you would love to attend. All right, Email addresses radic

945
00:54:53,880 --> 00:54:56,040
Speaker 1: Romance at gmail dot com. That's right. You can find

946
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Speaker 1: us also on Twitter and Instagram. I'm at O Grade,

947
00:54:59,400 --> 00:55:02,520
Speaker 1: It's Eli, I'm at Dianamite Boom, and the show is

948
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Speaker 1: at ridic Romance. That's right, And thanks so much for

949
00:55:05,400 --> 00:55:07,799
Speaker 1: spending your time with us. We love hanging out with

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Speaker 1: y'all and we will see you next time. All right,

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Speaker 1: So long friends, it's time to go. Thanks so listening

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