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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: Hey you welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is Rob Lamb.

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Speaker 3: And this is Joe McCormick. And today we're going to

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Speaker 3: be covering a movie from the nineteen fifties about evil

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Speaker 3: scientists who want to use long distance electrodes to power

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Speaker 3: the brains of dead men to do their bidding. No,

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Speaker 3: not Plan nine from outer Space, not The Bride of

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Speaker 3: the Monster. It's another movie with a very similar premise.

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Speaker 3: This was sort of in the air. Apparently. This is

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Speaker 3: nineteen fifty five's Creature with the Adam Brain.

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Speaker 2: Which has always been a confusing title because I think

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Speaker 2: for a while I even just would read it as

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Speaker 2: Creature with the Atomic Brain, because what would Adam brain

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Speaker 2: even mean other than possibly super small brain.

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Speaker 3: Obviously, Yeah, it seems like an advance on the insult

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Speaker 3: Pea brain. You know, you go down to pe brain,

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Speaker 3: and then what's below that Atam brain?

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Speaker 2: I guess, Yeah, but no, it's essentially in the same

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Speaker 2: vein as atomic brain. But yeah, but not only is

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Speaker 2: this like perhaps an idea of a reduced brain, also

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Speaker 2: reduced runtime. This one comes in at a slim sixty

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Speaker 2: nine minutes. The one of the reasons we picked it

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Speaker 2: for this week was that we had a super long

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Speaker 2: movie last week and we had a short week this week,

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Speaker 2: so it seemed like a good time to dip back

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Speaker 2: into the nineteen fifties.

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Speaker 3: Sixty nine minutes. That's I don't know, that's kind of

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Speaker 3: on the long side for these movies. I think a

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Speaker 3: Attack of the Crab Monster is more like sixty three.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Some of those Corman and Corman as pictures come

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Speaker 2: in at an hour or less, so yeah, they can

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Speaker 2: get shorter now. The other fun thing about this pick

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Speaker 2: is that it inspired a Rocky Ericsson song. Rocky Erickson

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Speaker 2: was a, if not the textan psychedelic rocker who lived

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Speaker 2: nineteen forty seven through twenty nineteen, did a number of

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Speaker 2: songs that were inspired or referenced horror movies or horror

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Speaker 2: movie themes, and so it's kind of a treat to

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Speaker 2: get to talk about a movie that he strongly and

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Speaker 2: directly references. I think another one we've talked about is

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Speaker 2: possibly nineteen fifty nine's The Alligator People. But yeah, today's

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Speaker 2: movie inspired the Rocky ericson track of the same name,

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Speaker 2: Creature with the Adam Brain, which you can find on

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Speaker 2: the nineteen eighty one album The Evil One.

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Speaker 3: I first heard this album, I'm pretty sure, in the

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Speaker 3: summer between my freshman and sophomore year of college. I

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Speaker 3: was hanging out with a friend and he put this

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Speaker 3: one of my favorite albums of all time, though it's

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Speaker 3: one that I think is apparently not for everybody. I

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Speaker 3: thought it was just great, but I took The Evil

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Speaker 3: One like back to school with me in the fall,

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Speaker 3: and you know, I was playing it for all my friends,

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Speaker 3: and I feel like a lot of them just weren't

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Speaker 3: into it. But it's one of my favorite rock and

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Speaker 3: roll records ever. Two Headed Dog, The Wind and More,

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Speaker 3: Bloody Hammer, Cold Night for Alligators, Night of the Vampire Creature,

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Speaker 3: with the Adam Brain, the Hits Never Stop.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I Think You You originally turned me on to

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Speaker 2: Rocky Erickson, and it took a little while for it

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Speaker 2: to really get it hooks into me this album in particular,

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Speaker 2: but eventually it did, and come back to it pretty frequently.

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Speaker 2: They're they're pretty often pretty hard hitting songs. There's been

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Speaker 2: pretty heavy stuff at times, and the lyrics are tremendous fun.

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Speaker 3: But I want to say, while a number of songs

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Speaker 3: on this fantastic album, the album is very monster themed overall,

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Speaker 3: and while a number of songs on the album make

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Speaker 3: oblique reference to identifiable monster movies, for example, the Alligator People,

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Speaker 3: there's a song on there called It's a Cold Night

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Speaker 3: for Alligator as it talks about how the dogs choke

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Speaker 3: bog and fog. I'm pretty sure the song Night of

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Speaker 3: the Vampire must have something to do with a particular

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Speaker 3: vampire movie. That's the one where if it's raining and

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Speaker 3: you'll slip in blood. That's just logic. But anyway, so

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Speaker 3: a lot of these other songs, the references are kind of,

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Speaker 3: The song is called Creature with the Adam Brain. It's

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Speaker 3: about a movie called Creature with the Adam Brain, and

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Speaker 3: the song at multiple points just Rocky starts reciting dialogue

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so it's pretty dead on. And I looked around.

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Speaker 2: I've never read any books, you know, dedicated biographies about

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Speaker 2: The Quietness. I'm not sure what year this is, but

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Speaker 2: favorite horror movie? And Rocky Erickson says, quote, I like

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Speaker 2: Giant Cricket. I like them too a lot. Yeah, so

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Speaker 2: we have that to go on the Giant Cricket. I think.

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure he might be referring to nineteen fifty

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Speaker 2: seven's beginning of the end, but yeah, pretty strong on

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Speaker 2: the Creature with the Adam Brain here. Maybe there's some

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Speaker 2: other interviews where he goes into it more. But there

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Speaker 2: is something it is interesting to think about because on

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Speaker 2: the surface, if you watch this movie not knowing it

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Speaker 2: one's favorite. Like, there are a lot of fun things

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Speaker 2: about it, but it doesn't necessarily scream top tier fifty

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Speaker 2: You know, there's some moments that are far creepier than

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Speaker 2: I kept coming back to were these moments where our

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Speaker 2: antagonist Buchanan, who will get into and who is referenced

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Speaker 2: in Rocky's song, is using super science to compel the

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Speaker 2: I don't know, I kept coming back to that thinking

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Speaker 2: about trying to figure out what Rocky found so fascinating

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Speaker 3: I agree with that assessment. I totally had a great

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Speaker 3: time watching this, but I don't think it is top

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Speaker 3: tier in any dimension. It's not like a truly great

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Speaker 3: having interesting science fiction premises or in human drama any

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Speaker 3: of that. It's also not one of the most notable

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Speaker 3: in terms of excesses of cheese, Like it's not in

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Speaker 3: Edward territory. You know, this is a competently made film,

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Speaker 3: but nevertheless, it does have some things that are working

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Speaker 3: in both directs and overall it's a fun ride and

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Speaker 3: it just moves right along. This is not a slow

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it does. It does really really move right along.

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Speaker 2: So anyway, it'd be interesting to keep all this in mind.

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Speaker 2: And again, we also have to drive home. You don't

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Speaker 2: have to have any kind of like specific reason to

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Speaker 2: no one else does. I don't know, you know, this

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Speaker 2: is just one that's stuck with Rocky ericson and he

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Speaker 2: made it into a great song.

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Speaker 3: So there you go. Sorry, I just put this together.

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Speaker 3: You mentioned that. So he said the other one that

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Speaker 3: think that might be beginning of the end if that

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Speaker 3: is correct. Beginning of the end is a bird Eye

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Speaker 2: Oh okay, just had to flag that there might be

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Speaker 2: something else that could be classified as the Giant Cricket.

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Speaker 2: But this is the main one I came across, and

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Speaker 2: it seems to be in that sweet spot of fifties

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Speaker 3: This is the one. It doesn't it have like one

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Speaker 3: of the special effects shots in it is a bird

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Speaker 3: Gordon had a regular sized cricket crawling over like a

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Speaker 3: postcard of the New York Skyline. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I think that's the one.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's smart.

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Speaker 2: All right, Well, elevator pitch for the creature with the

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Speaker 2: popular Science Magazine, June nineteen fifty five. The horror movie.

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Speaker 2: That's good, Yeah, because there is a real feel of

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Speaker 2: I just caught up on the latest, you know, bleeding

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Speaker 2: for a horror movie that we have to make next week.

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Speaker 3: You know, I've got another take on it. So if

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Speaker 3: Edward originally sold Bride of the Monster as Bride of

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Speaker 3: the Atom, this is like they're exploring more stuff in

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Speaker 3: that space. We already did Bride of the Atom. Whatso

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Speaker 3: how about entry level employee of the Atom? And I

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, let's go ahead and listen to that

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Speaker 2: trailer audio. This is pretty good.

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Speaker 4: One fish and science creates an electronic monster so terrifying

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Speaker 5: Come back Home, Come back Home. According to the evidence,

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Speaker 5: Hennessy was murdered by a creature with adam rays of

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Speaker 5: superhuman strength and a creature that cannot be killed by bullets.

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Speaker 3: His name is Willard Pierce, and.

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Speaker 5: Let me have it from the finals petty theft for

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Speaker 5: three months in prison. Rule I could have took burcular

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Speaker 5: then they have strength enough to break those bars like that?

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Speaker 3: Do you think that's something? Answer this one? How could

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Speaker 4: Fantastic? But based on scientific fact.

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Speaker 5: Please, hello, your fly you will stop all planes and

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Speaker 5: people will be killed. There will be no other warning.

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Speaker 3: Hello, Hello, Hello, they hung.

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Speaker 2: Up before put a trace around us.

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Speaker 5: Slow down, Dave, Dave Date, No, well them kill him?

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Speaker 2: There you go. Based on scientific fact, this is a

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Speaker 2: This is a film that screams to be viewed.

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Speaker 3: This is hard science, hard science. This is like it's

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Speaker 2: All right, if you're before we go any further, if

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Speaker 2: if you would like to watch this movie before you

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Speaker 3: You can.

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Speaker 2: You might catch a stream or two here or there,

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Speaker 2: but the surefire way to view it is to pick

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Speaker 2: up some physical media. There are a couple of nice

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Speaker 2: collections that include it. One is the four DVD pack

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Speaker 2: Icons of Horror collection Sam Katzman, which you can buy

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Speaker 2: wherever you get your discs, that features the giant Claw

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Speaker 2: creature with The Adam Brain, Zombies of Mara Tao, and

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Speaker 2: the Werewolf. Arro Video also put these four movies out

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Speaker 2: Creatures for Films from Sam Katzman, and I included a

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Speaker 2: picture of the whole spread. Here, Joe, this one looks

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Speaker 2: really nice. This is not how we watched it, but

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Speaker 2: this looks splendid if I can't even look at it

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Speaker 3: The shelf space gorgeous. Maybe I'm gonna buy it.

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Speaker 2: And then look at that that adom brained creature right

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Speaker 3: Beautiful. I gotta say the original posters for the creature

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Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely go go listen to some of this album

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Speaker 2: All right, let's get into the cast here. Our star

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Speaker 3: Was he one of the forgettable humans in it?

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Speaker 3: That sort of thing. I would say, Richard Dinning is

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's some sort of like syndicated female superhero thing. Now,

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Speaker 2: He was also in nineteen fifty five Is the Day

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Speaker 3: I'd say his role in this movie is somewhat likable, actually,

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Speaker 2: I wasn't really prepared for just how all over each other.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, even though I think they have the nineteen fifties

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Speaker 3: They are, and she also like she's really keeping up

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Speaker 2: the nineteen fifties and so forth. All Right, our movie

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Speaker 2: does have a German mad scientist, and it is doctor

434
00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:47,879
Speaker 2: Wilhelm Steig, played by Gregory Gay who lived nineteen hundred

435
00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:50,919
Speaker 2: through nineteen ninety three. He was a Russian born actor

436
00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:55,160
Speaker 2: who left after the nineteen seventeen October Revolution. His first

437
00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:58,679
Speaker 2: screen role was an uncredited role as an officer in

438
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Speaker 2: John Barrymore's teen twenty eight silent movie about the final

439
00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:06,440
Speaker 2: days of Czarist Russia, Tempest, but he went on two bigger,

440
00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:10,520
Speaker 2: small roles, bigger supporting roles, often playing Russians or Germans,

441
00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:13,800
Speaker 2: often playing diplomats. I think he even shows up on

442
00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:18,080
Speaker 2: the sixties Batman series at one point playing a Russian diplomat. Uncredited.

443
00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:21,080
Speaker 2: Some of his more visible roles include a bit part

444
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Speaker 2: of a German banker in nineteen forty two's Casablanca, a

445
00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:28,400
Speaker 2: casino owner in nineteen sixties Oceans eleven, and he also

446
00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:31,880
Speaker 2: pops up in nineteen sixty one's Blue Hawaii. This starred

447
00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:34,960
Speaker 2: Elvis and was filmed at the hotel from Death Moon,

448
00:25:35,359 --> 00:25:36,679
Speaker 2: the Coco Palms Resort.

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Speaker 3: It just occurred to me, I can't believe they never

450
00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:44,080
Speaker 3: made an Elvis werewolf movie. Can you imagine how he

451
00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:46,000
Speaker 3: could howl? Oh?

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Speaker 2: Man? Yeah, I off the top of my head, I

453
00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:50,440
Speaker 2: don't yeah. I don't think any Elvis movies get into

454
00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:55,200
Speaker 2: into horror sci fi. They're all they're all based more

455
00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:59,960
Speaker 2: in just kind of teeny boppy comedy and drama.

456
00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:03,520
Speaker 3: X Presley starring in The Werewolf of Makeout Beach.

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Speaker 2: It would have been good. All right. We have another

458
00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:09,760
Speaker 2: villain in this and it is Frank Buchanan. This is

459
00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:14,639
Speaker 2: the character whose name is reference in the Rocky Ericson song.

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00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:18,479
Speaker 2: This character is played by Michael Granger, who lived nineteen

461
00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:22,080
Speaker 2: twenty three through nineteen eighty one. He is our and

462
00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:23,920
Speaker 2: we'll have to come back to this. I guess he's

463
00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:29,520
Speaker 2: our deported American mobster who was wandering around Europe, found

464
00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:32,639
Speaker 2: himself a German mad scientist, and now has returned to

465
00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:35,960
Speaker 2: seek vengeance on both sides of the law with super science.

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00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:39,560
Speaker 3: How does one like acquire so you need a doctor

467
00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:43,040
Speaker 3: Fritz to make zombies for you? How do you acquire one?

468
00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:44,520
Speaker 3: You just you.

469
00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:47,199
Speaker 2: I took it to be like the situation where he

470
00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:49,720
Speaker 2: found this guy. He started financing his work, and then

471
00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:53,480
Speaker 2: you know, once you've been financed by someone like this,

472
00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:55,199
Speaker 2: after a while, you know what they're gonna do. They're like,

473
00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:57,240
Speaker 2: it's time to move this project back to the States

474
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Speaker 2: and begin the next phase, which is Project Vengeance, Project

475
00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:02,760
Speaker 2: Personal Vendetta.

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00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:03,560
Speaker 3: Okay.

477
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:07,120
Speaker 2: Now, Granger is pretty interesting because he's an American actor

478
00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:10,560
Speaker 2: of stage and screen who mostly worked small parts on

479
00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:13,320
Speaker 2: the on the screen in the likes of nineteen fifty

480
00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:16,240
Speaker 2: three is The Big Heat and the Magnetic Monster, one

481
00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:20,480
Speaker 2: of only a handful of movies that Kurt Siodmca actually directed,

482
00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:24,119
Speaker 2: as well as nineteen fifty eight Murder by Contract. But

483
00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:27,080
Speaker 2: he was also very active on Broadway and was in

484
00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:31,480
Speaker 2: the original Broadway run of Fiddler on the Roof. Oh,

485
00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:33,200
Speaker 2: now it's been it's been a long time since I've

486
00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:34,520
Speaker 2: seen Fiddler on the Roof. I think I saw it

487
00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:37,560
Speaker 2: as a child, so I haven't watched it in a while.

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Speaker 2: But he plays a character the butcher named Lazarre Wolf.

489
00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:46,280
Speaker 2: Not laser Wolf, I assume, but Lazarre Wolf. And this

490
00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:48,600
Speaker 2: would have been from like nineteen sixty four through nineteen

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Speaker 2: seventy two.

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Speaker 3: Oh wow, you know, I do remember it being emphasized

493
00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:54,119
Speaker 3: as laser Wolf.

494
00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:55,359
Speaker 2: Really Okay, I.

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Speaker 3: Don't know if that's how they would actually say it

496
00:27:57,680 --> 00:28:01,680
Speaker 3: in Russia, but I remember it like scans that way

497
00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:04,600
Speaker 3: for the lines in some of the songs. Wolf is

498
00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:10,480
Speaker 3: the So the oldest daughter, Zetol, is engaged to laser Wolf,

499
00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:13,880
Speaker 3: but she doesn't love him. She loves what's his name?

500
00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:16,879
Speaker 3: The other I think a muttle, the tailor. And so

501
00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:20,679
Speaker 3: there's this whole like like Teva wants to find a

502
00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:24,800
Speaker 3: way to get his daughter out of that uh engagement

503
00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:27,040
Speaker 3: so she can marry the guy she really loves, and

504
00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:29,160
Speaker 3: so he has to come up with this scheme where

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00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:32,120
Speaker 3: he makes up a dream with a bad omen where

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Speaker 3: where laser Wolf's wife will come back as a wraith.

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Speaker 3: And do you remember any of this?

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00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:41,560
Speaker 2: No, man, I don't remember it wraiths or anything. Yeah,

509
00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:44,000
Speaker 2: it's like I just remember, I literally just remember the

510
00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:46,680
Speaker 2: same There's there's someone does sing on a roof? Right

511
00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:48,840
Speaker 2: or is that a fabricated never plays a fiddle on

512
00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:51,040
Speaker 2: a roof? That's okay, that's the part I remember.

513
00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:53,920
Speaker 3: No, Okay, well, yeah, I remember. It's actually a great subplot.

514
00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:56,160
Speaker 3: So basically, the guy he wants his daughter to be

515
00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:58,440
Speaker 3: able to marry the guy she loves instead of the

516
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Speaker 3: guy she's engaged to, and in order to do so,

517
00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:03,320
Speaker 3: he makes up a fake death omen dream.

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00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:07,360
Speaker 2: Hmm, okay, I need to see it again. That's it,

519
00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:11,120
Speaker 2: or I almost see it for the first time. Anyway, Granger,

520
00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:14,479
Speaker 2: I really liked him in this. He has a voice

521
00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:18,200
Speaker 2: that's just as smooth as crushed velvet, and he gives

522
00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:20,840
Speaker 2: way more charisma to this role than I think anyone

523
00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:23,880
Speaker 2: was asking of him. He's quite good. I don't want

524
00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:26,680
Speaker 2: to take anything away from Dinning, because again, he's solid,

525
00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:29,960
Speaker 2: hits all the right notes. But Granger brings that nice

526
00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:32,680
Speaker 2: bit of something extra to the role. Like the dialogue

527
00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:35,840
Speaker 2: is already nice and snappy, but he breathes just a

528
00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:40,400
Speaker 2: little extra malice and machination into everything, which is especially

529
00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:44,160
Speaker 2: potent when he is speaking into the minds of the

530
00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:47,680
Speaker 2: dead or through the dead, because I think if memory

531
00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:51,360
Speaker 2: serves the voice we hear come out of most of

532
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:55,520
Speaker 2: the walking dead the Atom creatures is the voice of Granger,

533
00:29:55,520 --> 00:30:00,000
Speaker 2: the voice of Buchanan, and yeah, it's eerie and effective.

534
00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:04,360
Speaker 3: Yeah. Later they like upgrade their technology so that the

535
00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:08,800
Speaker 3: Adam Brain zombies can speak with their own voice, but

536
00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:09,920
Speaker 3: they only do that for.

537
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:13,480
Speaker 2: Day if I think, yeah, which is I think more

538
00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:16,000
Speaker 2: plot oriented than anything. We'll get into the end of Dave.

539
00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:19,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know exactly how it works that when

540
00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:24,120
Speaker 3: the earlier ones talk, they speak with Buchanan's voice because

541
00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:26,480
Speaker 3: they would still be using their vocal chords. But I

542
00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:27,680
Speaker 3: don't know. Yeah.

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00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:31,320
Speaker 2: Now, special effects, which I guess are not that impressive

544
00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:34,560
Speaker 2: in this particular film, are worth noting here just because

545
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:37,640
Speaker 2: they're by Jack Ericson, who lived nineteen eleven through nineteen

546
00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:40,160
Speaker 2: seventy eight special effects a guy who worked with Ray

547
00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:43,760
Speaker 2: Harryhausen the same year on It Came from Beneath the Sea,

548
00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:46,680
Speaker 2: which was also part of the double feature with this

549
00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:47,400
Speaker 2: very film.

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00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:48,880
Speaker 3: That's right. Yeah.

551
00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:53,000
Speaker 2: Ericson also has a special effects credit on The Galaxy

552
00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:56,520
Speaker 2: Being episode of the classic Outer Limits series that episode

553
00:30:56,520 --> 00:31:00,000
Speaker 2: starred Cliff Robertson, but more notable than Robertson, it featured

554
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:02,479
Speaker 2: one of the series more memorable aliens. This was this

555
00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:06,720
Speaker 2: kind of like weirdly glowing creature. That. Yeah, if you

556
00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:09,280
Speaker 2: go back and watch any Outer Limits episode from this

557
00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:11,560
Speaker 2: time period, that's the one to check out, because the

558
00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:14,640
Speaker 2: creature absolutely pops Galaxy being.

559
00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:18,440
Speaker 3: I can't help but imagine that title inspired the title

560
00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:21,520
Speaker 3: of the later Dawn Dollar film Galaxy Invader.

561
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:27,600
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, absolutely absolutely it did. Love Galaxy Invader. That

562
00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:28,440
Speaker 2: one's good.

563
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:29,040
Speaker 3: All right.

564
00:31:29,080 --> 00:31:31,880
Speaker 2: Finally, just a note on the music here. It's all

565
00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:34,400
Speaker 2: stock music, so there's somebody to single out here, just

566
00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:39,160
Speaker 2: all stock music. Nothing remarkable about it. No, all right, Well,

567
00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:40,480
Speaker 2: shall we get into the plot.

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00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:44,320
Speaker 3: Let's do it. You know what, quite strong opening. In fact,

569
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Speaker 3: I would say I think the best looking shot in

570
00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:52,600
Speaker 3: the film is the very opening shot. So we come

571
00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:55,120
Speaker 3: up on a kind of a silent alley way in

572
00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:58,520
Speaker 3: the nighttime, with trees and shrubbery crowding in on both sides,

573
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:02,440
Speaker 3: and then in the background in the distance in the shot,

574
00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:05,680
Speaker 3: there is moonlight pouring in from above in a kind

575
00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:10,200
Speaker 3: of shaft, and that moonlight is falling on the dark

576
00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:14,320
Speaker 3: shape of a man shambling slowly toward the camera as

577
00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:17,560
Speaker 3: nothing but a heartbeat pounds on the soundtrack, and then

578
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:20,120
Speaker 3: the credits roll as he wanders in our direction. It's

579
00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:21,600
Speaker 3: very very strong opening.

580
00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:26,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, it doesn't waste any time. You know, it's screaming kids,

581
00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:29,680
Speaker 2: stop making out and watch your I guess second helping

582
00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:30,560
Speaker 2: of the double feature.

583
00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:33,360
Speaker 3: But as I said, I don't think any other shot

584
00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:37,640
Speaker 3: in the movie is as artistically composed as this one is.

585
00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:41,040
Speaker 3: This is the best looking thing we're going to get. Now,

586
00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:44,840
Speaker 3: with my post George Romero expectations, I thought this was

587
00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:48,080
Speaker 3: going to be a decaying zombie coming toward us because

588
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:52,080
Speaker 3: of his shambling gait. But no, it is a man

589
00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:55,120
Speaker 3: in a suit and a tie who looks actually pretty normal,

590
00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:59,280
Speaker 3: except his expression is sort of vacant. He is a stocky,

591
00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:04,240
Speaker 3: square featured fellow. He walks like right up in our faces.

592
00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:07,000
Speaker 3: And then the next thing we see is him driving

593
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:11,080
Speaker 3: a four door sedan around some kind of winding mountain roads.

594
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:12,720
Speaker 3: So I was thinking, wait a minute, is he a

595
00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:17,320
Speaker 3: zombie or not? Because zombies, as generally understood, cannot operate

596
00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:20,880
Speaker 3: motor vehicles, with the exception, of course, of Jason Vorhees,

597
00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:23,680
Speaker 3: and Jason takes Manhattan because I stand by my assertion

598
00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:25,600
Speaker 3: that Jason does drive the boat.

599
00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:28,600
Speaker 2: Well, as we'll learn, this is a special kind of zombie.

600
00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:31,440
Speaker 2: This is a super science zombie, so maybe different rules apply.

601
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:34,840
Speaker 3: Right. So the zombie non zombie guy, whatever he is,

602
00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:37,840
Speaker 3: he parks his car beside a street lamp outside some

603
00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:42,360
Speaker 3: large building that Rob I wonder, what did you initially

604
00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:44,600
Speaker 3: think this building was. I was like, okay, is he

605
00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:48,240
Speaker 3: at like city hall or a nice hotel or something.

606
00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:51,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, it looked a more official like that. I was

607
00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:53,640
Speaker 2: a little surprised when it turned out to be more

608
00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:57,800
Speaker 2: of a like a criminal underworld location as opposed to

609
00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:01,880
Speaker 2: anything concerning like that, you know, the city government.

610
00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:04,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought maybe, oh, maybe this is a bank,

611
00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:07,520
Speaker 3: but I think it's supposed to be a casino, and

612
00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:10,680
Speaker 3: maybe like an illegal underworld casino. So I don't know

613
00:34:10,680 --> 00:34:14,319
Speaker 3: why it's so fancy looking, but yeah, So he gets

614
00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:17,280
Speaker 3: out of the car, he shambles towards the building. Inside

615
00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:21,440
Speaker 3: we see cashiers closing up money changing stations, and then

616
00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:24,640
Speaker 3: we see a lackey in a tuxedo taking a bag

617
00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:28,160
Speaker 3: of money into a spacious office decorated with Nick Knax,

618
00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:31,600
Speaker 3: like there's a big easter island head and this is

619
00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:34,680
Speaker 3: the office of mister Hennessy, who is the number one

620
00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:37,920
Speaker 3: head guy in charge of this hotel, City Hall casino.

621
00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:40,600
Speaker 3: The lackey reports that the take for the night was

622
00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:44,960
Speaker 3: twenty grand. Hennessy seems pleased with this, and Hennessy opens

623
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:47,239
Speaker 3: up his wall safe and starts counting the money and

624
00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:51,279
Speaker 3: narrating into his dictaphone as he does so. And interestingly,

625
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:55,680
Speaker 3: he's not counting in terms of He's not like counting

626
00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:59,200
Speaker 3: the money. He is counting the numbers of individual bills.

627
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:02,399
Speaker 3: So he's like, this many hundred dollar bills, this many

628
00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:08,239
Speaker 3: fifty dollars bills. Is that normal criminal behavior? I don't know. Meanwhile,

629
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:12,480
Speaker 3: outside the window, the zombie driver keeps staggering toward the building,

630
00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:16,719
Speaker 3: and then we see through the zombie's eyes, and then

631
00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:21,080
Speaker 3: there's an interesting transition. We see through his eyes on

632
00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:24,920
Speaker 3: a TV screen on screen. So now we're somewhere else

633
00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:28,040
Speaker 3: in a laboratory. They make it easy to know where

634
00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:32,080
Speaker 3: you are by like having electrodes emit zapping sounds, and

635
00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:36,839
Speaker 3: there's a TV showing the zombies eye view, and there

636
00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:39,920
Speaker 3: are two guys watching it. You've got a stout gangs

637
00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:44,480
Speaker 3: gangster looking man in a suit and a bespectacled scientist

638
00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:46,960
Speaker 3: in a white lab coat, and the gangster guy is

639
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:50,560
Speaker 3: holding a microphone up to his mouth while the scientist

640
00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:54,680
Speaker 3: is fiddling with knobs. Back at the casino, the zombie

641
00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:58,400
Speaker 3: bends the bars outside the window to Hennessy's office. He

642
00:35:58,520 --> 00:36:00,719
Speaker 3: just you know, grabs him with his hands, benson back,

643
00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:04,279
Speaker 3: and then smashes through the glass. He actually basically he

644
00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:07,520
Speaker 3: just like flathand outward pushes through the window.

645
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:12,840
Speaker 2: There are numerous stunts where like a sort of roundish

646
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:17,160
Speaker 2: man goes through a plate of glass a glass window

647
00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:18,800
Speaker 2: in this movie. And I was looking at some of

648
00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:22,000
Speaker 2: the stunt players and one of the guys did this

649
00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:24,200
Speaker 2: I think, pretty much the same stunt in The Wizard

650
00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:27,719
Speaker 2: of Oz as the Cowardly Lion. So I guess it

651
00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:30,120
Speaker 2: was just like printed on this guy's business card, like

652
00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:33,640
Speaker 2: you need like a slightly rotund actor to go through

653
00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:35,399
Speaker 2: a window, I'm your guy, and.

654
00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:37,640
Speaker 3: I'll do it just by pushing the glass out.

655
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:41,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, obviously it's trick glass, but still specialized skill.

656
00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:43,279
Speaker 3: I don't know, I don't know if I can tell

657
00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:45,520
Speaker 3: trick class. Just by looking at it, I will assume

658
00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:48,520
Speaker 3: this was a safe set. Yeah, but anyway, Yeah, so

659
00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:50,840
Speaker 3: the guy comes through the window. He goes up to Hennessy.

660
00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:54,920
Speaker 3: He says, in a mechanical voice, I told you I'd

661
00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:57,799
Speaker 3: come back. And here we're getting into one of the

662
00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:01,360
Speaker 3: bits of dialogue that Rocky ericson. Just sits in the song,

663
00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:06,880
Speaker 3: and the zombie says, remember Buchanan, and Hennessy says, but

664
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:10,640
Speaker 3: you're not Buchanan. The zombie says, I may not look

665
00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:15,360
Speaker 3: like him, but I am him. Don't you recognize the voice, Jim.

666
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:19,040
Speaker 3: I promise to see you die and I will. Then

667
00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:22,280
Speaker 3: Hennessy he whips out a pistol tries to shoot the zombie,

668
00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:26,400
Speaker 3: but of course it does no good. The zombie grabs

669
00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:30,719
Speaker 3: Hennessy lifts him up over his head and then we

670
00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:34,160
Speaker 3: see only a shadow of the two figures cast upon

671
00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:38,600
Speaker 3: the wall, and in the shadow, the zombie just folds

672
00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:41,480
Speaker 3: Hennessy like a wallet. He just snaps him in half

673
00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:45,720
Speaker 3: backwards like a kitcat bar crunch. It is brutal.

674
00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:48,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love this. This is a great use of

675
00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:54,560
Speaker 2: shadow and implying the physical violence. There's another example of

676
00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:55,880
Speaker 2: this later on in the film, but this is the

677
00:37:55,880 --> 00:37:58,440
Speaker 2: best example of it. It just lifts him up in

678
00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:02,040
Speaker 2: a gorilla press and does this breaker death move. And

679
00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:04,200
Speaker 2: as this was occurring, as he was like setting this up,

680
00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:08,160
Speaker 2: especially where you see an actual zombie grab a good dude,

681
00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:10,440
Speaker 2: grapple him and lift him up, I was like, I

682
00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:14,200
Speaker 2: bet this guy's a wrestler. Sure enough. This role is

683
00:38:14,239 --> 00:38:20,040
Speaker 2: played by former pro wrestler Carl Killer Davis aka Crippler Carl,

684
00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:23,200
Speaker 2: who lived nineteen oh eight through nineteen seventy seven. I

685
00:38:23,239 --> 00:38:24,920
Speaker 2: was not familiar with this guy, but apparently it was

686
00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:27,359
Speaker 2: a big heel in the thirties and forties. He got

687
00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:29,920
Speaker 2: his first acting break playing one of the I think

688
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:33,439
Speaker 2: ten strongmen who opposes Mighty Joe Young in nineteen forty

689
00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:38,680
Speaker 2: nine's Mighty Joe Young, alongside fellow wrestler turned actor Tora Johnson,

690
00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:41,840
Speaker 2: as well as some other big guys like Italian boxer

691
00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:47,239
Speaker 2: wrestler of the day Primo Canara. Anyway, this led to

692
00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:50,480
Speaker 2: a whole career of heavy roles for Davis, and here

693
00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:51,719
Speaker 2: he is a zombie.

694
00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:54,399
Speaker 3: He's got a great look for film too, though he's

695
00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:59,000
Speaker 3: got a very kind of square head and sharp features.

696
00:38:58,719 --> 00:39:02,440
Speaker 2: He's good yeah, unlike tor I think he mostly played

697
00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:06,680
Speaker 2: like heavies and like you know, enforcers and so forth,

698
00:39:06,680 --> 00:39:08,239
Speaker 2: as opposed to outright monsters.

699
00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:13,080
Speaker 3: Wait, this wasn't one of the communist saboteur wrestlers in

700
00:39:13,719 --> 00:39:15,399
Speaker 3: The Mighty Tobar, was it.

701
00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:17,720
Speaker 2: No, that was a different guy. But that was another

702
00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:19,480
Speaker 2: one where you could tell, like the way he was

703
00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:21,200
Speaker 2: I think it was the bumping in that one, like

704
00:39:21,239 --> 00:39:24,400
Speaker 2: the way he was falling down. You know, you could tell, Okay,

705
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:26,239
Speaker 2: this guy's a wrestler. He's got to be, and you know,

706
00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:29,120
Speaker 2: sure enough, once you know the signs, it's pretty clear.

707
00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:33,920
Speaker 3: All right. Well, so anyway, after the zombie just breaks

708
00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:37,080
Speaker 3: Tennessee in half like a cracker, Hennessy's goons run in

709
00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:40,239
Speaker 3: the start shooting at the zombie, but he seems unbothered

710
00:39:40,239 --> 00:39:42,920
Speaker 3: by bullets. I think there are some squibs in this

711
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:44,120
Speaker 3: scene that look pretty good.

712
00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:46,239
Speaker 2: Mm hmm. Yeah, there are a number of effects in

713
00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:49,439
Speaker 2: the film where people are like shooting through zombies and yeah,

714
00:39:49,640 --> 00:39:51,680
Speaker 2: it looks believable. A lot of films would just have

715
00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:55,080
Speaker 2: the maybe you're having the gun actually fire blanks, and

716
00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:56,280
Speaker 2: the rest is just implied.

717
00:39:56,680 --> 00:39:58,440
Speaker 3: It's just a mid shot. You don't like see it,

718
00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:01,560
Speaker 3: but this was like you see, like the squibs exploding

719
00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:06,600
Speaker 3: out the back of the zombies souit jacket. Yeah, but anyway,

720
00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:08,440
Speaker 3: zombie goes out the window, he gets in the car

721
00:40:08,480 --> 00:40:12,560
Speaker 3: and drives away. Meanwhile, we see back in the laboratory

722
00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:15,960
Speaker 3: where the two guys are watching zombie ITV. The guy

723
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:20,440
Speaker 3: holding the microphone starts saying, come back home, come back home.

724
00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:25,239
Speaker 3: So it's clear what's starting to become clear what's going on.

725
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:29,120
Speaker 3: This is like a remote controlled zombie or somnambulist or

726
00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:32,600
Speaker 3: something here. And then there's a kind of funny moment

727
00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:35,800
Speaker 3: where the other guy grabs the microphone, like the scientist

728
00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:39,120
Speaker 3: takes it from the gangster guy, and he starts saying

729
00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:42,400
Speaker 3: in a German accent, get in the automobile, Get in

730
00:40:42,480 --> 00:40:48,600
Speaker 3: the automobile, the automobile. Get inside. So eventually the zombie obeys.

731
00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:52,719
Speaker 3: And then the gangster guy this is Buchanan, and we

732
00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:54,759
Speaker 3: already know that because he was the one talking through

733
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:58,520
Speaker 3: the zombie. Remember Buchanan, I am him, and the scientist

734
00:40:58,719 --> 00:41:03,319
Speaker 3: this is doctor STI. They chatter about how the zombies work.

735
00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:07,120
Speaker 3: Buchanan is afraid that the zombie won't make it back

736
00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:10,359
Speaker 3: because of his gunshot wounds, but Steig says that as

737
00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:12,560
Speaker 3: long as he still has an ounce of fluid in

738
00:41:12,640 --> 00:41:15,839
Speaker 3: his body, he'll keep moving. And when these creatures are

739
00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:19,480
Speaker 3: damaged or run low on power, they automatically return to

740
00:41:19,560 --> 00:41:23,000
Speaker 3: the home base like a room. Oh yeah, like that.

741
00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:27,880
Speaker 3: But there's also you can see emerging some conflict between

742
00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:32,840
Speaker 3: Buchanan and Stig at zombie mission control. Buchanan is pleased.

743
00:41:32,880 --> 00:41:34,839
Speaker 3: He's like, all right, that was the first of them,

744
00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:38,480
Speaker 3: first of the people on my murder list. But there

745
00:41:38,520 --> 00:41:41,520
Speaker 3: are more we have to send our zombies after and

746
00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:45,319
Speaker 3: then Steig kind of breaks into a lament. He's like, oh,

747
00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:48,600
Speaker 3: you know, I invented these remote control zombies, hoping that

748
00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:51,279
Speaker 3: they could be used to help humanity because they could

749
00:41:51,280 --> 00:41:54,839
Speaker 3: do tasks that were dangerous for living workers. But now

750
00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:57,640
Speaker 3: that I'm working with Buchanan, he's like, all you want

751
00:41:57,680 --> 00:42:00,800
Speaker 3: to do is see people die. But Buchan one in protests,

752
00:42:00,840 --> 00:42:03,120
Speaker 3: He's like, look, I don't just want to see people die.

753
00:42:03,239 --> 00:42:06,480
Speaker 3: I want to see particular people die, and I'll get

754
00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:11,200
Speaker 3: them all. After this, Buchanan and Steig go into the

755
00:42:11,239 --> 00:42:15,520
Speaker 3: first of many in the movie almost ritualistic scenes of

756
00:42:16,080 --> 00:42:19,759
Speaker 3: dressing in these lead lined suits with respirator hoses and

757
00:42:19,840 --> 00:42:25,080
Speaker 3: crawling through a plastic lined tunnel into the operating room,

758
00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:28,760
Speaker 3: which we I think we assume must be flooded with radiation.

759
00:42:29,719 --> 00:42:32,640
Speaker 3: This is kind of the storage room for more zombies

760
00:42:32,719 --> 00:42:36,080
Speaker 3: like our spine cruncher friend, and these are the titular

761
00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:40,879
Speaker 3: creatures with the atom brains. Now, while in the radioactive room,

762
00:42:40,960 --> 00:42:43,520
Speaker 3: they have to decommission a couple of Adam Brand dudes

763
00:42:43,520 --> 00:42:48,640
Speaker 3: who have deteriorated beyond use. Because Steig explains different parts

764
00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:51,920
Speaker 3: of the body die at different times, and buchanans like,

765
00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:55,200
Speaker 3: does the brain still die first? And Steig says always,

766
00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:57,320
Speaker 3: the brain always dies first.

767
00:42:57,640 --> 00:42:59,759
Speaker 2: They didn't have an acid vat for this, though, this

768
00:42:59,880 --> 00:43:01,600
Speaker 2: was been a great time to have an acid fat

769
00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:04,480
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you know you think.

770
00:43:04,239 --> 00:43:09,080
Speaker 3: That the they say it so portentously, you almost think

771
00:43:09,120 --> 00:43:11,479
Speaker 3: that the brain always dies first is going to become

772
00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:13,279
Speaker 3: a plot point. But I don't think it does.

773
00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:15,839
Speaker 2: That's I think that this is something we can chalk

774
00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:18,560
Speaker 2: up to, but not only the script of the performances here,

775
00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:20,760
Speaker 2: but there are a lot of lines like this that

776
00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:24,840
Speaker 2: that work far far better than they They probably that

777
00:43:24,960 --> 00:43:26,959
Speaker 2: they could have or certainly should have. You know, it's

778
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:30,120
Speaker 2: like this is not an important detail, but you know,

779
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:32,840
Speaker 2: it's still kind of zings and sticks with you. And

780
00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:34,799
Speaker 2: I don't think this is Granger speaking this line. I

781
00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:36,760
Speaker 2: think this is uh, this is the doctor.

782
00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:39,880
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, But all right, that's sort of the setup

783
00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:41,880
Speaker 3: for the film. You start to see, like what the

784
00:43:41,880 --> 00:43:45,719
Speaker 3: supernatural or science fiction premise is what comes next in

785
00:43:45,760 --> 00:43:49,360
Speaker 3: this kind of movie. Police arrive on the scene, of course, investigators,

786
00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:52,960
Speaker 3: and one of them is our hero, who seems to

787
00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:57,000
Speaker 3: be I'm going to say that that the hero character

788
00:43:57,600 --> 00:44:00,120
Speaker 3: is the product of a compromise in the writer's room.

789
00:44:00,360 --> 00:44:03,400
Speaker 3: They went something like this, It's let's see, should our

790
00:44:03,480 --> 00:44:07,879
Speaker 3: leading man be a cop or a scientist? What if

791
00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:12,880
Speaker 3: he was both? So our hero, chet Walker, is some

792
00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:16,439
Speaker 3: kind of science cop. He is a cop, but he

793
00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:20,880
Speaker 3: heads up a forensic laboratory full of microscopes and glass

794
00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:24,680
Speaker 3: slides and Geiger counters, and he seems to be I

795
00:44:24,719 --> 00:44:27,640
Speaker 3: don't know, like a mister wizard detective. He's like where

796
00:44:27,640 --> 00:44:31,080
Speaker 3: the police come to consult his genius in order to

797
00:44:31,120 --> 00:44:34,520
Speaker 3: solve murder cases, but they also don't just refer evidence

798
00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:38,200
Speaker 3: to him. He's like always first on the scene investigating

799
00:44:38,239 --> 00:44:38,760
Speaker 3: the crime.

800
00:44:39,239 --> 00:44:42,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is kind of like the the nineteen fifties

801
00:44:42,160 --> 00:44:44,440
Speaker 2: version of CSI. I guess you know where you have

802
00:44:44,560 --> 00:44:48,680
Speaker 2: the forensic expert. He's also just very, very and perhaps

803
00:44:49,640 --> 00:44:53,200
Speaker 2: unrealistically front and center of any investigation.

804
00:45:01,200 --> 00:45:03,520
Speaker 3: All right. So Chet and colleagues are on scene at

805
00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:06,320
Speaker 3: the casino where Hennessy got crunched like a ritz cracker,

806
00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:10,360
Speaker 3: and they discover several interesting things. They say, whoever broke

807
00:45:10,440 --> 00:45:13,080
Speaker 3: in was able to bend back the iron bars outside

808
00:45:13,080 --> 00:45:16,960
Speaker 3: the window with his bare hands. They noticed the perpetrator

809
00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:19,840
Speaker 3: did not bother to steal the money from the safe.

810
00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:23,120
Speaker 3: They say he was shot, leaving behind a trail of

811
00:45:23,160 --> 00:45:26,440
Speaker 3: blood and yet was still able to escape. And then

812
00:45:26,480 --> 00:45:29,480
Speaker 3: finally they discovered that his blood, his fingerprints, and his

813
00:45:29,520 --> 00:45:34,160
Speaker 3: footprints all glow in the dark. Also in this scene

814
00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:36,440
Speaker 3: there is the beginning of a theme where Chet is

815
00:45:36,520 --> 00:45:39,920
Speaker 3: followed around by a gang of I don't know, like

816
00:45:40,040 --> 00:45:43,600
Speaker 3: five to seven excitable and fairly credulous reporters who are

817
00:45:43,640 --> 00:45:47,600
Speaker 3: all slobbering for a story. And so the reporters are like,

818
00:45:47,680 --> 00:45:50,440
Speaker 3: how did he bend those bars? And Chet says, maybe

819
00:45:50,480 --> 00:45:54,480
Speaker 3: he ate all his vitamins and the reporters like vitamins

820
00:45:56,280 --> 00:45:58,160
Speaker 3: like he thinks, So maybe this is a real scoop.

821
00:45:58,239 --> 00:46:03,640
Speaker 3: I don't know about vitamin vitamins behind iron Bar killing,

822
00:46:05,040 --> 00:46:08,080
Speaker 3: I think. In the scene we also meet Chet's friend Dave,

823
00:46:08,239 --> 00:46:10,680
Speaker 3: who is some other kind of cop. Is he supposed

824
00:46:10,680 --> 00:46:14,040
Speaker 3: to be like FBI or something or police captain? He

825
00:46:14,680 --> 00:46:18,719
Speaker 3: seems in some way separate from whatever Chet is.

826
00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:23,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I can never completely nail it down. I

827
00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:26,360
Speaker 2: will throw in that. Dave is played by s John Loner,

828
00:46:26,400 --> 00:46:29,799
Speaker 2: who lived nineteen through two thousand and six. Mostly did

829
00:46:29,840 --> 00:46:33,560
Speaker 2: small roles, but appears in Hitchcock's Marnie from sixty four.

830
00:46:34,640 --> 00:46:37,600
Speaker 2: Mommy dearis from eighty one, and was also in both

831
00:46:37,640 --> 00:46:40,720
Speaker 2: The Werewolf in fifty six and I was a teenage

832
00:46:40,719 --> 00:46:41,960
Speaker 2: Werewolf from fifty seven.

833
00:46:43,400 --> 00:46:46,960
Speaker 3: So back at the lab, Chet analyzes the luminous residue

834
00:46:46,960 --> 00:46:49,120
Speaker 3: and the blood left behind at the crime scene. He

835
00:46:49,200 --> 00:46:52,040
Speaker 3: discovers that the blood is not blood at all, It's

836
00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:57,239
Speaker 3: some kind of artificial concoction containing microscopic crystals. And then

837
00:46:57,280 --> 00:47:00,319
Speaker 3: the question is why does it all glow? Well starts

838
00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:02,720
Speaker 3: holding a Geiger counter up to it, and it starts

839
00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:07,479
Speaker 3: it's going nuts, and doctor Walker's like this so called

840
00:47:07,640 --> 00:47:14,240
Speaker 3: blood is radioactive, Dave says, dangerously, So Chet responds plus nine.

841
00:47:15,080 --> 00:47:16,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, didn't he throw in like you wouldn't want to

842
00:47:16,719 --> 00:47:18,840
Speaker 2: be around this stuff for long. SE's back on the

843
00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:20,360
Speaker 2: desk and his conversation.

844
00:47:21,840 --> 00:47:24,640
Speaker 3: They just put it on the desk, you keep talking. Yeah. So,

845
00:47:25,120 --> 00:47:28,360
Speaker 3: while leaving the lab, Chet is again intercepted by the reporters.

846
00:47:28,400 --> 00:47:31,560
Speaker 3: They demand a story, and Chet tells them that Hennessy

847
00:47:31,680 --> 00:47:35,040
Speaker 3: was killed by quote, a creature with adam rays of

848
00:47:35,120 --> 00:47:40,000
Speaker 3: superhuman strength and a creature that cannot be killed by bullets. Uh.

849
00:47:40,200 --> 00:47:43,200
Speaker 3: And the reporters are angered by this because they think

850
00:47:43,239 --> 00:47:45,680
Speaker 3: he is pulling their leg and one of the reporters

851
00:47:45,680 --> 00:47:49,520
Speaker 3: threatens to misspell chet Walker's name, which this sent me

852
00:47:49,560 --> 00:47:51,280
Speaker 3: down a rabbit hole of what would be the best

853
00:47:51,320 --> 00:47:57,080
Speaker 3: way to misspell chet Walker. I'm gonna say, like cheb Wonker,

854
00:47:57,920 --> 00:47:58,160
Speaker 3: m M.

855
00:47:58,280 --> 00:48:00,400
Speaker 2: Yeah. It's a delicate balance because you don't want to

856
00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:02,760
Speaker 2: put anything in the paper that I'll get you in trouble.

857
00:48:03,000 --> 00:48:05,440
Speaker 2: He's got to get it, get it, you know, the

858
00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:09,120
Speaker 2: right level of insulting without being profane. But anyway, I

859
00:48:09,160 --> 00:48:11,719
Speaker 2: like this one little back and forth here because it's like, yeah,

860
00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:13,360
Speaker 2: I'll just tell you straight up what's going on with

861
00:48:13,360 --> 00:48:15,880
Speaker 2: the zombie and dare you to print it? Dare you

862
00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:16,920
Speaker 2: to take me seriously.

863
00:48:17,680 --> 00:48:20,640
Speaker 3: So the next morning, Dave comes to Chet's house and

864
00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:23,040
Speaker 3: he's greeted by Chet's wife, Joyce. This is when we

865
00:48:23,080 --> 00:48:26,719
Speaker 3: first meet Chet's family. We find out he's not just

866
00:48:26,760 --> 00:48:29,160
Speaker 3: any science cop. This is a science cop with a family.

867
00:48:29,239 --> 00:48:31,120
Speaker 3: So he's got a wife named Joyce and a daughter

868
00:48:31,200 --> 00:48:36,000
Speaker 3: named Penny. Penny has a cherished doll named Henrietta, and

869
00:48:36,040 --> 00:48:38,600
Speaker 3: this leads to a weird exchange where Dave, who I

870
00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:41,719
Speaker 3: think is like trying to feed either Penny or the

871
00:48:41,800 --> 00:48:45,600
Speaker 3: dolls serial, but Dave is like, you know, I used

872
00:48:45,640 --> 00:48:48,239
Speaker 3: to go with a girl named Henrietta. And Penny says

873
00:48:48,280 --> 00:48:50,799
Speaker 3: what happened to her? And Dave says, what happened to her,

874
00:48:50,920 --> 00:48:53,600
Speaker 3: shouldn't happen to your doll. She married a con man.

875
00:48:56,040 --> 00:49:00,080
Speaker 3: Day strange, but anyway, this is not a so so

876
00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:03,120
Speaker 3: she'll call Dave is here to discuss work. He has

877
00:49:03,160 --> 00:49:05,799
Speaker 3: some alarming news. They got back a match on the

878
00:49:05,840 --> 00:49:08,840
Speaker 3: fingerprints found at the crime scene. They belonged to a

879
00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:12,959
Speaker 3: convicted criminal who died in jail twenty four days ago.

880
00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:16,600
Speaker 3: From here we go to let's see, it's been a

881
00:49:16,640 --> 00:49:18,279
Speaker 3: few minutes since we had a murder in this movie.

882
00:49:18,280 --> 00:49:21,080
Speaker 3: We've got to have another Adam Brain murder. So now

883
00:49:21,160 --> 00:49:24,960
Speaker 3: we cut to district attorney McGraw, who we met at

884
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:26,960
Speaker 3: the first crime scene earlier. I think he had a

885
00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:30,840
Speaker 3: line that was something like, look, I'm just a district attorney,

886
00:49:30,880 --> 00:49:35,120
Speaker 3: not a chemist. McGraw is getting in his car in

887
00:49:35,160 --> 00:49:37,839
Speaker 3: his garage when he is startled by a strange man

888
00:49:37,920 --> 00:49:40,120
Speaker 3: in a mechanics jumpsuit. It looks kind of like Michael

889
00:49:40,120 --> 00:49:44,839
Speaker 3: Myers without a mask. And the man says, I'm from Buchanan.

890
00:49:45,200 --> 00:49:48,160
Speaker 3: If you know that, you know why I'm here. It's

891
00:49:48,239 --> 00:49:51,680
Speaker 3: no use McGraw. And then he reaches into McGrath's car

892
00:49:51,840 --> 00:49:55,799
Speaker 3: and yanks the steering wheel out of its housing, and

893
00:49:55,880 --> 00:49:59,239
Speaker 3: he says, I said I would see you die. I

894
00:49:59,320 --> 00:50:04,680
Speaker 3: am watching you now. I think there's like an implied therefore,

895
00:50:04,760 --> 00:50:07,160
Speaker 3: like he's saying I said I would see you die,

896
00:50:07,840 --> 00:50:10,919
Speaker 3: I can see you now. Therefore you're going to die.

897
00:50:11,480 --> 00:50:14,480
Speaker 2: Well, Buchanan knows he only has so much time to gloat.

898
00:50:14,560 --> 00:50:17,240
Speaker 2: He's got to get to it with this remote death

899
00:50:17,719 --> 00:50:19,399
Speaker 2: via reanimated corpse.

900
00:50:19,400 --> 00:50:23,319
Speaker 3: Right, So this Adam brain lifts McGraw up by the

901
00:50:23,400 --> 00:50:26,399
Speaker 3: neck and then crunches him somehow, does another crunchy thing.

902
00:50:27,160 --> 00:50:29,759
Speaker 3: So Chet and Dave arrive at the murder scene in

903
00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:34,439
Speaker 3: the garage, and there is a doctor on site who's like, yes,

904
00:50:34,560 --> 00:50:36,719
Speaker 3: of course, I already gave his wife a sedative. It

905
00:50:36,800 --> 00:50:39,040
Speaker 3: is nineteen fifty five. I know what I'm supposed to do.

906
00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:43,680
Speaker 3: But he also concludes that McGraw was killed by having

907
00:50:43,680 --> 00:50:48,080
Speaker 3: his bones crushed by a single hand. I can deduce

908
00:50:48,120 --> 00:50:51,320
Speaker 3: that by looking at him somehow. And this leads Chet

909
00:50:51,320 --> 00:50:54,680
Speaker 3: and Dave to conclude that it was the same murderer

910
00:50:54,880 --> 00:51:00,480
Speaker 3: as Hennessy. But that doesn't make sense, they say, because Hennessy, see,

911
00:51:00,520 --> 00:51:03,799
Speaker 3: he was some kind of gangland boss, and McGraw was

912
00:51:03,800 --> 00:51:06,920
Speaker 3: a district attorney, so that was like cop and criminal.

913
00:51:06,960 --> 00:51:10,399
Speaker 3: They're on opposite sides. How would they share a common enemy. Well,

914
00:51:10,440 --> 00:51:13,600
Speaker 3: there are more clues. McGraw's car is radioactive now, and

915
00:51:13,640 --> 00:51:17,640
Speaker 3: the fingerprints of the murderer match a man who died

916
00:51:17,760 --> 00:51:21,200
Speaker 3: a few weeks ago, So another dead man's fingerprints around

917
00:51:21,200 --> 00:51:24,719
Speaker 3: the scene, and the reporters show back up again. They're

918
00:51:25,080 --> 00:51:26,719
Speaker 3: you know, they go up to Chet and they're like, hey,

919
00:51:26,760 --> 00:51:29,239
Speaker 3: were you actually serious about these murders being done by

920
00:51:29,280 --> 00:51:32,920
Speaker 3: a thing with a brain charged by Adam Rays? And

921
00:51:33,040 --> 00:51:35,799
Speaker 3: Chet's like, yes, I was serious. And then the reporters say,

922
00:51:35,840 --> 00:51:37,600
Speaker 3: hot dog, you know we had a scoop. We didn't

923
00:51:37,640 --> 00:51:40,080
Speaker 3: even know it, And then they all run off together.

924
00:51:40,200 --> 00:51:43,080
Speaker 3: I'm like, is that a scoop if all nine of

925
00:51:43,120 --> 00:51:46,480
Speaker 3: you got it at the same time? Yeah?

926
00:51:46,520 --> 00:51:51,200
Speaker 2: Are they all working for the same papers? The budget

927
00:51:51,200 --> 00:51:53,360
Speaker 2: for this newspaper is a dating question.

928
00:51:53,719 --> 00:51:55,960
Speaker 3: They also they don't like stop to get a quote

929
00:51:56,040 --> 00:51:58,520
Speaker 3: or ask any follow up questions. They just he just

930
00:51:58,600 --> 00:52:01,799
Speaker 3: confirms it was Adams and they're like, okay, we got

931
00:52:01,800 --> 00:52:06,279
Speaker 3: a story, and they run off confirmed. Yeah, okay. After this,

932
00:52:06,360 --> 00:52:09,200
Speaker 3: we go to one of my favorite characters in the movie.

933
00:52:09,440 --> 00:52:12,400
Speaker 3: Who is Is his name Dick Cutting?

934
00:52:13,280 --> 00:52:13,920
Speaker 2: Dick Cutting?

935
00:52:14,040 --> 00:52:18,000
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, okay, So we go to Dick Cutting is

936
00:52:18,360 --> 00:52:22,360
Speaker 3: a man who looks like he should be playing like

937
00:52:22,920 --> 00:52:26,120
Speaker 3: a commander in the Galactic Empire in Star Wars. He

938
00:52:26,160 --> 00:52:29,160
Speaker 3: has that kind of he should be Admiral Cutting played

939
00:52:29,160 --> 00:52:29,920
Speaker 3: by Richard H.

940
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:33,319
Speaker 2: Cutting, who lived nineteen twelve through nineteen seventy two. Wait,

941
00:52:33,520 --> 00:52:36,440
Speaker 2: that's his real name apparently, Yeah, he was also an

942
00:52:36,440 --> 00:52:38,719
Speaker 2: attack of the crab monsters in South Pacific.

943
00:52:39,280 --> 00:52:42,799
Speaker 3: Oh, I didn't recognize him from crab monsters? See which

944
00:52:42,840 --> 00:52:43,200
Speaker 3: one was?

945
00:52:43,239 --> 00:52:43,359
Speaker 2: He?

946
00:52:43,400 --> 00:52:46,000
Speaker 3: Is he the scientist in it? I'll have to come

947
00:52:46,040 --> 00:52:50,879
Speaker 3: back and doctor James Carson. Okay, okay. So he's got

948
00:52:50,920 --> 00:52:54,200
Speaker 3: a news monologue which is just tremendous. His scenes are

949
00:52:54,800 --> 00:52:56,960
Speaker 3: some of my favorite stuff in the film. So he says, hello,

950
00:52:57,120 --> 00:52:59,520
Speaker 3: ladies and gentlemen. He's sitting at like a very nice

951
00:52:59,560 --> 00:53:02,680
Speaker 3: looking and then behind him there's a shelf full of

952
00:53:02,719 --> 00:53:05,239
Speaker 3: what looked like very old books. You know, they're like

953
00:53:05,760 --> 00:53:08,600
Speaker 3: I don't know, first editions or something. He says, hello,

954
00:53:08,760 --> 00:53:12,279
Speaker 3: ladies and gentlemen. This is dick cutting with today's commentary

955
00:53:12,320 --> 00:53:15,680
Speaker 3: on the news. As you know, today's story hinges around

956
00:53:15,680 --> 00:53:18,520
Speaker 3: the killing of District Attorney McGraw, whose body was found

957
00:53:18,520 --> 00:53:21,440
Speaker 3: today in his garage, murdered in much the same manner

958
00:53:21,520 --> 00:53:25,160
Speaker 3: as Hennessy was. What connection can the murder have to Hennessy,

959
00:53:25,320 --> 00:53:28,880
Speaker 3: who was obviously a gangland boss is unknown at present.

960
00:53:29,280 --> 00:53:32,960
Speaker 3: Doctor chet Walker of the Police Laboratory has given out

961
00:53:32,960 --> 00:53:35,920
Speaker 3: a fantastic story so incredible that one can lend it

962
00:53:36,040 --> 00:53:39,080
Speaker 3: little credence. Doctor Walker is of the opinion that these

963
00:53:39,120 --> 00:53:42,720
Speaker 3: crimes are being perpetrated by dead men. Yes, I said,

964
00:53:42,840 --> 00:53:46,560
Speaker 3: dead men restored to life in some unknown manner by

965
00:53:46,600 --> 00:53:50,720
Speaker 3: being charged with atom Ray's, which gives them superhuman strength

966
00:53:50,800 --> 00:53:53,839
Speaker 3: and makes them impervious to bullets. Well, if you want

967
00:53:53,840 --> 00:53:56,719
Speaker 3: to believe that story, you can, and then cut to

968
00:53:56,960 --> 00:53:59,640
Speaker 3: Buchanan switching off the TV angrily.

969
00:54:01,440 --> 00:54:03,439
Speaker 2: There'll be more from Dick Cutting here in a bed.

970
00:54:03,640 --> 00:54:04,560
Speaker 2: It gets even better.

971
00:54:04,920 --> 00:54:06,759
Speaker 3: Today's commentary on the.

972
00:54:06,760 --> 00:54:09,760
Speaker 2: News filmed in what just looks like a lawyer's office

973
00:54:09,760 --> 00:54:13,000
Speaker 2: as opposed to a TV studio or something.

974
00:54:13,160 --> 00:54:15,960
Speaker 3: Except there are curtains on the wall in the background.

975
00:54:16,200 --> 00:54:20,279
Speaker 3: H Yes, yeah, So Buchanan is mad that I guess

976
00:54:20,480 --> 00:54:22,799
Speaker 3: they figured out the whole scheme. And now, even though

977
00:54:22,800 --> 00:54:26,919
Speaker 3: dick Cutting does not lend it any credence, he's mad

978
00:54:27,080 --> 00:54:30,400
Speaker 3: just to hear it being spoken by the lips of

979
00:54:30,440 --> 00:54:35,000
Speaker 3: Dick Cutting, even if to be dismissed. Yes, so, Buchanan says,

980
00:54:35,360 --> 00:54:38,600
Speaker 3: this doctor Walker has quite the imagination, and then Steig

981
00:54:38,719 --> 00:54:41,960
Speaker 3: says the kind of imagination that could prove dangerous to us,

982
00:54:42,160 --> 00:54:44,960
Speaker 3: And then Buchanan says, you mean the kind of imagination

983
00:54:45,040 --> 00:54:49,360
Speaker 3: that could prove dangerous to him. Ooh, Buchanan is ruthless.

984
00:54:49,920 --> 00:54:52,560
Speaker 3: Now next we get another what I thought was a

985
00:54:52,640 --> 00:54:55,480
Speaker 3: highlight of the film, which is the meeting at city

986
00:54:55,560 --> 00:54:58,400
Speaker 3: Hall scene. This is like twenty two twenty three minutes

987
00:54:58,440 --> 00:55:01,759
Speaker 3: in Walk meets with the mayor and a bunch of

988
00:55:01,840 --> 00:55:06,879
Speaker 3: big wigs, including a General Saunders, and oh my god,

989
00:55:06,960 --> 00:55:09,239
Speaker 3: this guy's line deliveries. I don't know if you found

990
00:55:09,239 --> 00:55:12,560
Speaker 3: them as hilarious as I did, but they're just perfect.

991
00:55:12,800 --> 00:55:15,360
Speaker 3: He's I don't know if I can do an impression,

992
00:55:15,440 --> 00:55:18,239
Speaker 3: but you know, they're they're introducing everybody, and he's like,

993
00:55:18,400 --> 00:55:25,840
Speaker 3: I'm from the military called just concerned me. So Chat

994
00:55:25,840 --> 00:55:29,040
Speaker 3: explains the creature with the Adam brain theory of the

995
00:55:29,080 --> 00:55:33,520
Speaker 3: case by talking about Faraday's experiments with a frog's leg,

996
00:55:33,760 --> 00:55:36,319
Speaker 3: you know, animating it with electricities, Like what if we

997
00:55:36,320 --> 00:55:39,080
Speaker 3: could do the same thing but with a human with

998
00:55:39,200 --> 00:55:45,000
Speaker 3: atomic rays and that, you know, basically like Colonel Sanders

999
00:55:45,120 --> 00:55:48,880
Speaker 3: is oh wait, no, is that his name? Colonel? No? Sorry,

1000
00:55:49,080 --> 00:55:55,720
Speaker 3: General Saunders. The genuine mistake here, Okay, General Saunders, he says,

1001
00:55:56,760 --> 00:56:02,319
Speaker 3: oh sorry. Chat requests trucks and planes that can detect

1002
00:56:02,719 --> 00:56:07,400
Speaker 3: radiation so that they can find the headquarters of the

1003
00:56:07,440 --> 00:56:11,279
Speaker 3: Adam Brain monsters and General Saunders is like oil got

1004
00:56:11,360 --> 00:56:12,160
Speaker 3: through your.

1005
00:56:12,080 --> 00:56:18,800
Speaker 2: Plans, oh man, So now the investigation into the atom creatures,

1006
00:56:18,840 --> 00:56:21,360
Speaker 2: the Adam Brain creatures is about to have military support.

1007
00:56:22,120 --> 00:56:23,880
Speaker 3: This is I think we've talked about this before, but

1008
00:56:23,960 --> 00:56:26,279
Speaker 3: this is a way that a lot of stories from

1009
00:56:26,360 --> 00:56:28,920
Speaker 3: this era are structured that makes them I think not

1010
00:56:29,120 --> 00:56:32,480
Speaker 3: nearly as thrilling or high tension as they could be

1011
00:56:32,640 --> 00:56:36,399
Speaker 3: just in the plot wise, because it basically has the

1012
00:56:36,480 --> 00:56:41,759
Speaker 3: heroes aligned with like powerful forces and many you know,

1013
00:56:41,920 --> 00:56:44,799
Speaker 3: lots of backup, like the police and the military are

1014
00:56:44,840 --> 00:56:49,200
Speaker 3: aligned with the heroes helping search out the isolated, besieged

1015
00:56:49,360 --> 00:56:50,040
Speaker 3: bad guys.

1016
00:56:50,840 --> 00:56:56,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, all of the lawful good agencies are going to

1017
00:56:57,000 --> 00:57:02,040
Speaker 2: align and will overcome the I guess lawful evil or

1018
00:57:02,040 --> 00:57:04,600
Speaker 2: maybe chaotoic evil forces of the villain. Like there's not

1019
00:57:04,680 --> 00:57:08,120
Speaker 2: really there's no conflict among them, there's no question of confidence.

1020
00:57:09,080 --> 00:57:10,360
Speaker 2: It's just a matter of time.

1021
00:57:10,200 --> 00:57:20,840
Speaker 3: Really, all right. So somewhere in here there is a

1022
00:57:20,880 --> 00:57:25,959
Speaker 3: plot where Buchanan and Steig send a road assassin after

1023
00:57:26,080 --> 00:57:29,680
Speaker 3: chet Walker. They figured out that he's onto them, and

1024
00:57:29,840 --> 00:57:31,840
Speaker 3: they get this guy in a car like trying to

1025
00:57:31,920 --> 00:57:33,360
Speaker 3: chase him down and run him off the road, but

1026
00:57:33,400 --> 00:57:36,560
Speaker 3: instead they just follow him to a military airfield where

1027
00:57:36,600 --> 00:57:38,760
Speaker 3: they're like, oh, actually we need to do surveillance. This

1028
00:57:38,800 --> 00:57:42,520
Speaker 3: guy's got something big cooking. But next there is a

1029
00:57:42,600 --> 00:57:45,880
Speaker 3: scene at Chet and Joyce's house, and I thought the

1030
00:57:45,880 --> 00:57:49,680
Speaker 3: sequence of this whole scene, the arc here is hilarious.

1031
00:57:50,160 --> 00:57:53,200
Speaker 3: So first Chet comes home, Chet and Joyce are all

1032
00:57:53,200 --> 00:57:56,160
Speaker 3: over each other, of course, then they announced it's time

1033
00:57:56,200 --> 00:58:00,840
Speaker 3: for dinner. Then Joyce sees a newspaper has a banner

1034
00:58:00,880 --> 00:58:06,439
Speaker 3: headline do dead men walk city streets? Authorities tracking down

1035
00:58:06,480 --> 00:58:09,720
Speaker 3: all clues? Also some other headlines. I see building code

1036
00:58:09,800 --> 00:58:10,440
Speaker 3: under fire.

1037
00:58:11,120 --> 00:58:13,280
Speaker 2: Oh man, I feel that that was going to be

1038
00:58:13,320 --> 00:58:15,560
Speaker 2: the lead, but then this dead man walking the street

1039
00:58:15,600 --> 00:58:17,240
Speaker 2: thing popped up exactly.

1040
00:58:17,280 --> 00:58:19,960
Speaker 3: So Joyce gets the paper. She says, it's not true,

1041
00:58:20,000 --> 00:58:22,640
Speaker 3: is it? I assume she's not talking about the building code.

1042
00:58:22,680 --> 00:58:25,640
Speaker 3: She means like, is it true about the dead men?

1043
00:58:26,120 --> 00:58:29,560
Speaker 3: And Chet says better hide it from Penny. Say, I

1044
00:58:29,600 --> 00:58:33,959
Speaker 3: could use a really nice cold martini, So Joyce makes

1045
00:58:34,000 --> 00:58:36,440
Speaker 3: him one, and then as she is making him a

1046
00:58:36,520 --> 00:58:40,120
Speaker 3: nice cold martini, she's like, well, Pennies out playing in

1047
00:58:40,160 --> 00:58:44,040
Speaker 3: the street where the atomic brains are? Is that safe,

1048
00:58:44,360 --> 00:58:48,200
Speaker 3: and doctor Chet says, there seems to be some sort

1049
00:58:48,240 --> 00:58:50,880
Speaker 3: of definite pattern. Can't put my finger on it, but

1050
00:58:50,960 --> 00:58:53,200
Speaker 3: I do know that Hennessy and mcgral were killed for

1051
00:58:53,280 --> 00:58:56,600
Speaker 3: a reason. And then Joyce is like, well, it's all right.

1052
00:58:56,640 --> 00:59:00,280
Speaker 3: Then he didn't really answer the question, and Chet says, well,

1053
00:59:00,360 --> 00:59:02,400
Speaker 3: for a while, I don't think they've gotten around to

1054
00:59:02,640 --> 00:59:04,280
Speaker 3: indiscriminate killings yet.

1055
00:59:06,040 --> 00:59:10,120
Speaker 2: That's not even part of the plan has been described

1056
00:59:11,200 --> 00:59:14,240
Speaker 2: by Buchanan. They have very specific killings. These they're not

1057
00:59:14,360 --> 00:59:17,480
Speaker 2: random killings either, are specific vengeance killings.

1058
00:59:18,000 --> 00:59:20,160
Speaker 3: But so Chet seems to be like, yes, it is

1059
00:59:20,200 --> 00:59:22,240
Speaker 3: okay for Penny to play in the street with the

1060
00:59:22,280 --> 00:59:26,080
Speaker 3: Adam Brains. And then Penny comes inside. She asked for

1061
00:59:26,160 --> 00:59:28,640
Speaker 3: the newspaper because she wants to read the funnies, and

1062
00:59:28,720 --> 00:59:31,480
Speaker 3: they lie and tell her it didn't come today. Then

1063
00:59:31,480 --> 00:59:33,840
Speaker 3: she wants to turn on the TV, and they lie

1064
00:59:34,000 --> 00:59:35,760
Speaker 3: and tell her the TV is broken. You know, it

1065
00:59:35,840 --> 00:59:38,920
Speaker 3: must be new tubes or something. Then Chet gets his

1066
00:59:39,040 --> 00:59:41,560
Speaker 3: martini and he's like, ooh, I've been thinking about this

1067
00:59:41,600 --> 00:59:45,760
Speaker 3: all day, and then Dave arrives. Captain Dave here arrives

1068
00:59:45,840 --> 00:59:48,760
Speaker 3: to explain more Adam Brain news and then they send

1069
00:59:48,800 --> 00:59:51,360
Speaker 3: Penny to her room so she can't hear the conversation,

1070
00:59:51,800 --> 00:59:54,000
Speaker 3: and they have a whole big argument about it. Penny's like,

1071
00:59:54,040 --> 00:59:55,920
Speaker 3: you know, oh, I you know, I promise not to

1072
00:59:55,920 --> 00:59:58,680
Speaker 3: bother them. They're like, no, you must go. I think

1073
00:59:58,720 --> 01:00:00,280
Speaker 3: they tell her to go to her room and like

1074
01:00:00,360 --> 01:00:04,400
Speaker 3: punish Henrietta the doll or something. So there is this

1075
01:00:04,560 --> 01:00:10,800
Speaker 3: persistent theme about them systematically hiding knowledge of danger from

1076
01:00:10,880 --> 01:00:15,240
Speaker 3: Penny while actually not protecting her from the danger itself.

1077
01:00:15,560 --> 01:00:17,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, and of course I think you could make a

1078
01:00:17,600 --> 01:00:21,040
Speaker 2: lot out of that too as a commentary on people

1079
01:00:21,080 --> 01:00:24,080
Speaker 2: growing up in the nineteen fifties and even some subsequent decades.

1080
01:00:24,120 --> 01:00:27,800
Speaker 2: You know, not so much as it concerns the threat

1081
01:00:27,920 --> 01:00:33,000
Speaker 2: of adam brained walking corpses, but various other issues in life.

1082
01:00:33,400 --> 01:00:36,120
Speaker 2: You know, this sense of being overly protective in one

1083
01:00:36,160 --> 01:00:39,880
Speaker 2: way but not preparing a child at all for the

1084
01:00:39,960 --> 01:00:42,680
Speaker 2: realities of well, in this case, the walking dead.

1085
01:00:43,080 --> 01:00:47,600
Speaker 3: Right, So Dave has some information. He explains the backstory

1086
01:00:47,640 --> 01:00:50,000
Speaker 3: that he pieced together that could make sense of all this.

1087
01:00:50,440 --> 01:00:54,200
Speaker 3: There was this guy Buchanan, the old crime boss in town,

1088
01:00:54,760 --> 01:00:59,560
Speaker 3: who many years ago was tried and convicted of crime

1089
01:01:00,400 --> 01:01:05,280
Speaker 3: and then sent into exile in Italy. What was this

1090
01:01:05,360 --> 01:01:08,120
Speaker 3: like a common punishment in the nineteen forties, So you're

1091
01:01:08,160 --> 01:01:11,680
Speaker 3: convicted of being a mafia boss and instead of going

1092
01:01:11,720 --> 01:01:13,960
Speaker 3: to prison, you're sent to Italy.

1093
01:01:14,480 --> 01:01:19,080
Speaker 2: Yeah. I had the same head scratching situation with this detail,

1094
01:01:19,160 --> 01:01:22,360
Speaker 2: and I was looking it up and I can't find

1095
01:01:22,400 --> 01:01:24,880
Speaker 2: anything that would support this as an actual reality. I

1096
01:01:24,880 --> 01:01:26,919
Speaker 2: think you can get instant just some murky stuff about

1097
01:01:27,000 --> 01:01:30,320
Speaker 2: US states being able to exile people from a given state,

1098
01:01:30,840 --> 01:01:34,440
Speaker 2: But I didn't come across anything regarding like judicial exile,

1099
01:01:35,400 --> 01:01:38,640
Speaker 2: like unless Buchanan was an Italian national, I guess maybe

1100
01:01:38,680 --> 01:01:40,400
Speaker 2: that would make sense, but there's nothing to indicate that

1101
01:01:40,480 --> 01:01:45,240
Speaker 2: he is or was this is his name is Buchanan? Yeah,

1102
01:01:45,280 --> 01:01:48,440
Speaker 2: that's a Scottish name. Yeah, So I don't know. I mean,

1103
01:01:48,920 --> 01:01:54,640
Speaker 2: maybe there's just something lost in and rewrites to the script.

1104
01:01:54,800 --> 01:01:57,440
Speaker 2: Like it's one thing if he was living in exile

1105
01:01:57,520 --> 01:02:01,040
Speaker 2: because he fled the law, like that seemed to match up.

1106
01:02:01,080 --> 01:02:03,240
Speaker 2: But this idea of being exiled, even in like the

1107
01:02:03,280 --> 01:02:06,640
Speaker 2: nineteen forties, to another country because you were a criminal

1108
01:02:06,680 --> 01:02:08,600
Speaker 2: career a criminal, I just don't know if that makes

1109
01:02:08,600 --> 01:02:09,320
Speaker 2: any sense at all.

1110
01:02:09,600 --> 01:02:12,120
Speaker 3: Well, anyway, Apparently when he was convicted, he stood up

1111
01:02:12,120 --> 01:02:15,920
Speaker 3: in court and swore revenge on Dia McGraw and everybody

1112
01:02:15,920 --> 01:02:19,680
Speaker 3: else who had testified against him at trial, which included Hennessy,

1113
01:02:19,720 --> 01:02:23,440
Speaker 3: who is his number two, but also included three other guys,

1114
01:02:23,520 --> 01:02:26,640
Speaker 3: and we'll meet them in a minute. We also will

1115
01:02:26,680 --> 01:02:30,800
Speaker 3: eventually learn via these repeated cables that they received from

1116
01:02:30,880 --> 01:02:35,360
Speaker 3: police in Rome, that while Buchanan was there, he made

1117
01:02:35,360 --> 01:02:39,080
Speaker 3: friends with a German scientist named Stig who did weird

1118
01:02:39,280 --> 01:02:44,840
Speaker 3: experiments on dogs, cats and monkeys involving atomic radiation. So

1119
01:02:44,880 --> 01:02:48,560
Speaker 3: it's all coming together now for the police investigators. But

1120
01:02:48,760 --> 01:02:52,040
Speaker 3: they think, okay, these other three guys who testified against Buchanan,

1121
01:02:52,120 --> 01:02:54,200
Speaker 3: they are in danger, so we got to round them up.

1122
01:02:55,080 --> 01:02:57,040
Speaker 3: And then at the very end of the scene, there's

1123
01:02:57,080 --> 01:03:00,680
Speaker 3: a strange thing where Joyce offers Chet a second Martini

1124
01:03:00,840 --> 01:03:03,960
Speaker 3: to take in the car with him. He turns it down,

1125
01:03:04,040 --> 01:03:06,280
Speaker 3: so she chugs it and then has a coughing fit.

1126
01:03:06,360 --> 01:03:07,680
Speaker 3: So it's like she can't.

1127
01:03:07,440 --> 01:03:10,800
Speaker 2: Hang stretch Like, even if it doesn't make sense, it's

1128
01:03:10,800 --> 01:03:12,880
Speaker 2: like the script is economic. They're fitting a lot of stuff.

1129
01:03:12,880 --> 01:03:15,240
Speaker 2: Then there's no ways in space, even if we don't

1130
01:03:15,240 --> 01:03:16,800
Speaker 2: really understand what the point.

1131
01:03:16,640 --> 01:03:19,200
Speaker 3: Is, right, But we know what's gonna happen next, right,

1132
01:03:19,440 --> 01:03:22,680
Speaker 3: Buchanan's going to be sending Adam brainiacs to kill the

1133
01:03:22,800 --> 01:03:26,440
Speaker 3: three more guys, the others who testified against him. The

1134
01:03:26,560 --> 01:03:30,040
Speaker 3: police offer to let those guys stay in jail for

1135
01:03:30,080 --> 01:03:32,600
Speaker 3: their own protection, but they turn it down. They're like, no,

1136
01:03:32,640 --> 01:03:34,760
Speaker 3: I I'll be at home now.

1137
01:03:34,840 --> 01:03:37,160
Speaker 2: We're about I think at the thirty four minute mark

1138
01:03:37,200 --> 01:03:39,800
Speaker 2: here and there's we're gonna check back in with Dick

1139
01:03:39,880 --> 01:03:44,320
Speaker 2: Cutting for just an absolutely perfect newscast that brings to

1140
01:03:44,400 --> 01:03:48,720
Speaker 2: mind the newscaster from The Simpsons. You know, there's this

1141
01:03:48,800 --> 01:03:52,360
Speaker 2: great sort of issuing of an apology concerning the Adam

1142
01:03:52,400 --> 01:03:56,560
Speaker 2: brain creatures. I, for one, welcome our new Adam brain overlords,

1143
01:03:56,840 --> 01:04:00,840
Speaker 2: according Dick Cutting, so he says, And with the murder

1144
01:04:00,840 --> 01:04:03,520
Speaker 2: of Jason Oh so, one of the guys, one of

1145
01:04:03,520 --> 01:04:06,880
Speaker 2: the three guys gets murdered, Dick Cutting says, And with

1146
01:04:06,920 --> 01:04:10,400
Speaker 2: the murder of Jason Franshat last night, I must apologize

1147
01:04:10,400 --> 01:04:13,440
Speaker 2: for my recent skepticism regarding these atomic creatures.

1148
01:04:13,720 --> 01:04:17,880
Speaker 3: It seems they do exist and they are prowling the street.

1149
01:04:20,080 --> 01:04:22,520
Speaker 3: I love it, but I think there's a subtext also,

1150
01:04:22,560 --> 01:04:24,920
Speaker 3: which is like, but please do allow your children to

1151
01:04:24,960 --> 01:04:27,080
Speaker 3: continue to play in the street. We don't want them

1152
01:04:27,080 --> 01:04:30,520
Speaker 3: to know there could be any danger. And now a

1153
01:04:30,520 --> 01:04:34,160
Speaker 3: message from our sponsor, you know, healthy lung cigarettes.

1154
01:04:34,480 --> 01:04:37,040
Speaker 2: I do feel like this movie was sponsored by pipe smoke.

1155
01:04:37,120 --> 01:04:39,720
Speaker 2: There there's a lot of like Chat is always smoking

1156
01:04:39,720 --> 01:04:43,200
Speaker 2: a pipe. There scenes where two characters having conversations smoking

1157
01:04:43,240 --> 01:04:45,600
Speaker 2: pipes at the same time. I haven't seen this much

1158
01:04:45,600 --> 01:04:47,080
Speaker 2: pipe smoke since Lord of the Rings.

1159
01:04:47,400 --> 01:04:49,400
Speaker 3: We're going to get to a pipe scene in a minute, so,

1160
01:04:50,320 --> 01:04:54,680
Speaker 3: but first, there are those planes and trucks that the

1161
01:04:54,800 --> 01:04:58,880
Speaker 3: Chat requested earlier. They've got radium finders equipped and they're

1162
01:04:58,960 --> 01:05:03,080
Speaker 3: scanning the city to Adam Brain HQ. And there's a

1163
01:05:03,080 --> 01:05:05,360
Speaker 3: scene where Steig is out on the town. I think

1164
01:05:05,400 --> 01:05:10,560
Speaker 3: he's out getting medicine to treat his radiation poisoning. And

1165
01:05:10,720 --> 01:05:13,440
Speaker 3: he ducks into a bar to hide from the military

1166
01:05:13,440 --> 01:05:15,240
Speaker 3: because they're like doing a house to house with their

1167
01:05:15,280 --> 01:05:19,360
Speaker 3: bayonets out. I guess looking for I don't know any scientists.

1168
01:05:19,400 --> 01:05:22,120
Speaker 3: I don't know exactly what they're running around with. I

1169
01:05:22,120 --> 01:05:24,920
Speaker 3: guess they've got Geiger counters. Maybe they're scanning people to

1170
01:05:24,920 --> 01:05:28,720
Speaker 3: see like are you radioactive. So he runs into a

1171
01:05:28,760 --> 01:05:31,120
Speaker 3: bar to hide, orders a beer and then runs out

1172
01:05:31,160 --> 01:05:34,080
Speaker 3: through the back door, leaves radiation on his beer and

1173
01:05:34,120 --> 01:05:36,080
Speaker 3: they find that there. But they're like, oh, okay, so

1174
01:05:36,080 --> 01:05:40,200
Speaker 3: we're looking for this German accent guy. Then there is

1175
01:05:40,400 --> 01:05:44,160
Speaker 3: a research segment of the film rob I think you

1176
01:05:44,280 --> 01:05:48,120
Speaker 3: recently alluded to there's a like in each campaign of

1177
01:05:48,200 --> 01:05:50,720
Speaker 3: Arkham Horror, there's like a research segment.

1178
01:05:51,120 --> 01:05:54,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, yep, this is our research segment for sure.

1179
01:05:54,440 --> 01:05:58,160
Speaker 3: Chet goes to consult a neurologist friend of his about

1180
01:05:58,240 --> 01:06:02,680
Speaker 3: Stig and his research. He learns all about Adam brain experiments.

1181
01:06:02,680 --> 01:06:05,480
Speaker 3: Actually not Adam brain experiments he learns about so I

1182
01:06:05,480 --> 01:06:08,920
Speaker 3: think the thing is he learns that there have been

1183
01:06:09,040 --> 01:06:13,800
Speaker 3: experiments that you can use electrodes to remotely control the

1184
01:06:13,840 --> 01:06:17,760
Speaker 3: behavior of other creatures like dogs. So they watch a

1185
01:06:17,840 --> 01:06:20,760
Speaker 3: film strip with an electric dog. That is the cutest

1186
01:06:20,760 --> 01:06:21,520
Speaker 3: thing I've ever seen.

1187
01:06:22,080 --> 01:06:28,560
Speaker 2: Yes, you'll never see fictional footage of dog mad science experiments.

1188
01:06:29,000 --> 01:06:33,720
Speaker 2: That is so adorable, because yeah, there's the implication on

1189
01:06:33,760 --> 01:06:36,360
Speaker 2: some level is that this is cruel and monstrous, but

1190
01:06:36,640 --> 01:06:38,720
Speaker 2: you don't get that from the footage because it's clearly

1191
01:06:38,960 --> 01:06:43,120
Speaker 2: like somebody's beloved pet dog with a couple of wires

1192
01:06:43,160 --> 01:06:45,400
Speaker 2: attached to its collar or something, or maybe just kind

1193
01:06:45,400 --> 01:06:47,520
Speaker 2: of like tucked into its fur, and then it's just

1194
01:06:47,520 --> 01:06:50,000
Speaker 2: doing dog stuff. They're like, look it barks on command,

1195
01:06:50,040 --> 01:06:52,040
Speaker 2: Look it sets down, and so forth.

1196
01:06:52,720 --> 01:06:55,920
Speaker 3: How can you imagine a dog doing something on command?

1197
01:06:57,000 --> 01:06:59,120
Speaker 3: But no, they're doing it by controlling its brain. But

1198
01:06:59,120 --> 01:07:02,720
Speaker 3: also it's fun because the dog is like, they're like,

1199
01:07:02,920 --> 01:07:05,600
Speaker 3: you here, by flipping this electrode, you can make it

1200
01:07:05,680 --> 01:07:08,960
Speaker 3: vicious and then it goes er. But it's the cutest dog,

1201
01:07:09,080 --> 01:07:11,400
Speaker 3: so it is. It's cute viciousness.

1202
01:07:11,720 --> 01:07:13,280
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, this is like I don't know what kind

1203
01:07:13,320 --> 01:07:15,240
Speaker 2: of dog, like a bingee dog, you know, yeah, that

1204
01:07:15,360 --> 01:07:15,960
Speaker 2: level of dog.

1205
01:07:16,320 --> 01:07:19,439
Speaker 3: So that's the like electric control. But then I think

1206
01:07:19,600 --> 01:07:22,560
Speaker 3: they make the bridge to the atom brain thing by saying, oh,

1207
01:07:22,640 --> 01:07:27,120
Speaker 3: but could you control a dead person with this kind

1208
01:07:27,120 --> 01:07:29,920
Speaker 3: of method? And the guy's like no, because you wouldn't

1209
01:07:29,920 --> 01:07:32,040
Speaker 3: have the energy to power the body if they were

1210
01:07:32,080 --> 01:07:34,880
Speaker 3: no longer alive. But then Chad is like, what if

1211
01:07:34,920 --> 01:07:38,480
Speaker 3: you used atom rays? And then the guy's like, oh no,

1212
01:07:38,600 --> 01:07:39,480
Speaker 3: I hadn't thought of that.

1213
01:07:39,800 --> 01:07:41,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's like, we're not there yet, but kind of

1214
01:07:41,600 --> 01:07:44,400
Speaker 2: implying like it's a good idea though, like this is

1215
01:07:44,440 --> 01:07:47,440
Speaker 2: a good way to use corpses. But we're just not

1216
01:07:47,560 --> 01:07:48,440
Speaker 2: there yet.

1217
01:07:49,480 --> 01:07:52,560
Speaker 3: But this whole scene, they're just digging into some pipes.

1218
01:07:52,880 --> 01:07:55,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, just so much pipe smoking. They both have

1219
01:07:56,040 --> 01:07:56,479
Speaker 2: one going.

1220
01:07:57,920 --> 01:08:00,000
Speaker 3: It's like, try some of my tobacco blend.

1221
01:08:00,520 --> 01:08:01,360
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1222
01:08:01,560 --> 01:08:04,400
Speaker 3: Now from here there is a subplot where Buchanan and

1223
01:08:04,520 --> 01:08:09,120
Speaker 3: Styg resort to terrorism. They're trying to get the army

1224
01:08:09,160 --> 01:08:13,240
Speaker 3: to stop scanning with their radium finders, so they have

1225
01:08:13,360 --> 01:08:17,760
Speaker 3: one of the Adam brains call in from a payphone

1226
01:08:18,400 --> 01:08:21,760
Speaker 3: to the Army I guess to call somebody and say, like,

1227
01:08:21,800 --> 01:08:27,040
Speaker 3: stop your investigation or there will be disasters. And of

1228
01:08:27,080 --> 01:08:30,960
Speaker 3: course the authorities don't negotiate with Adam Brains, so they

1229
01:08:31,040 --> 01:08:34,320
Speaker 3: don't stop. And then we are treated to stock footage

1230
01:08:34,360 --> 01:08:38,160
Speaker 3: of like trains derailing and mountains exploding and stuff. We

1231
01:08:38,200 --> 01:08:41,679
Speaker 3: see a headline in the newspaper that says plane, bus

1232
01:08:41,680 --> 01:08:43,799
Speaker 3: and rail crashes stir public.

1233
01:08:44,320 --> 01:08:47,720
Speaker 2: Really in this calculation on the canon's part, because he

1234
01:08:47,800 --> 01:08:50,680
Speaker 2: always doing is antagonizing the military at this point, if

1235
01:08:50,680 --> 01:08:52,679
Speaker 2: he really wanted the heat to die down, they should

1236
01:08:52,680 --> 01:08:54,439
Speaker 2: have just stopped doing Adam brains for.

1237
01:08:54,439 --> 01:08:54,920
Speaker 3: A little bit.

1238
01:08:55,200 --> 01:08:58,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, Also, doesn't he have just like three more murders

1239
01:08:58,439 --> 01:09:01,040
Speaker 2: left to complete his his agenda? Here?

1240
01:09:01,200 --> 01:09:02,720
Speaker 3: I think he did one of the three, So he's

1241
01:09:02,760 --> 01:09:03,599
Speaker 3: got two more.

1242
01:09:03,439 --> 01:09:05,800
Speaker 2: Two murders left, and you're gonna go ahead and rile

1243
01:09:05,880 --> 01:09:07,120
Speaker 2: up the military. I don't know.

1244
01:09:07,720 --> 01:09:09,439
Speaker 3: Yeah, it seems like he should keep his eye on

1245
01:09:09,479 --> 01:09:13,479
Speaker 3: the ball, like they're really getting sidetracked. I feel like

1246
01:09:13,520 --> 01:09:16,519
Speaker 3: it would be harder to accomplish plane, bus and rail

1247
01:09:16,600 --> 01:09:20,559
Speaker 3: crashes than to just finish his business. Yeah, but oh no.

1248
01:09:20,760 --> 01:09:23,960
Speaker 3: Then we get to a scene where Dave Chet's friend

1249
01:09:24,040 --> 01:09:28,280
Speaker 3: gets Adam brained. He gets attacked by I think the

1250
01:09:28,479 --> 01:09:31,760
Speaker 3: one of the three guys who was on the murder list,

1251
01:09:31,880 --> 01:09:35,360
Speaker 3: the accountant, the former accountant of Buchanan. He gets killed

1252
01:09:35,360 --> 01:09:37,200
Speaker 3: in his house by an Adam brain. He gets turned

1253
01:09:37,200 --> 01:09:40,559
Speaker 3: into an Adam brain. He kills Dave in Dave's car,

1254
01:09:40,880 --> 01:09:42,760
Speaker 3: and then Dave gets adam brained.

1255
01:09:42,840 --> 01:09:45,160
Speaker 2: And we get to see the is this the Adam

1256
01:09:45,200 --> 01:09:47,960
Speaker 2: brain itself? Could? I couldn't make out all the detail

1257
01:09:48,040 --> 01:09:50,040
Speaker 2: when I was viewing it. It's just some sort of implied,

1258
01:09:50,040 --> 01:09:52,599
Speaker 2: some sort of like thing with wires on it. It's

1259
01:09:52,640 --> 01:09:55,200
Speaker 2: going to go into the open cranium because I don't know.

1260
01:09:55,280 --> 01:09:57,080
Speaker 2: Do we mention that all the Adam brains have like

1261
01:09:57,400 --> 01:09:59,599
Speaker 2: what appears to be stitching across their forehead.

1262
01:09:59,720 --> 01:10:01,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, that their head has been opened up like a

1263
01:10:02,360 --> 01:10:06,160
Speaker 3: pet's dispenser and something is inserted in it. The thing

1264
01:10:06,280 --> 01:10:09,840
Speaker 3: is some kind of electrode brain plates. I think they

1265
01:10:09,880 --> 01:10:13,080
Speaker 3: install the plate in the brain to send electrodes down

1266
01:10:13,120 --> 01:10:16,479
Speaker 3: into the brain tissue to control the body remotely, and

1267
01:10:16,520 --> 01:10:21,040
Speaker 3: then they power it with the Adam rays. So they

1268
01:10:21,400 --> 01:10:24,519
Speaker 3: Adam brain Dave, and then they get Dave talking. They're

1269
01:10:24,520 --> 01:10:27,400
Speaker 3: like testing him out. They find that he can use

1270
01:10:27,520 --> 01:10:30,720
Speaker 3: his own vocal cords, so he won't sound like Buchanan

1271
01:10:30,760 --> 01:10:33,280
Speaker 3: when he talks. He'll sound like Dave. But they're like

1272
01:10:33,360 --> 01:10:36,760
Speaker 3: get you. They're like, you know, Captain Harris, say your

1273
01:10:36,840 --> 01:10:40,959
Speaker 3: name and he goes, my name is David Harris, Homicide Squad.

1274
01:10:41,720 --> 01:10:43,600
Speaker 3: And then they tuck a knife in his pants and

1275
01:10:43,640 --> 01:10:45,360
Speaker 3: they send him on his way. I think they're sending

1276
01:10:45,439 --> 01:10:48,479
Speaker 3: him to try to go kill chet Walker, the main guy.

1277
01:10:49,000 --> 01:10:51,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, since he can talk like Dave, he's more of

1278
01:10:51,439 --> 01:10:53,120
Speaker 2: an infiltration unit at this point.

1279
01:10:53,960 --> 01:10:56,919
Speaker 3: So there is a scene that I think is supposed

1280
01:10:56,960 --> 01:11:00,200
Speaker 3: to be very tense, but actually was mostly funny. Where

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Speaker 3: Dave goes to Chet's house. Chet's not home, but Joyce

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Speaker 3: and Penny are there. He comes to the door and

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Speaker 3: Penny's like, who is it, and he goes, my name

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Speaker 3: is David Harris, Captain Harris, homicide Squad. And she lets

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Speaker 3: him in and Joyce is like, oh, why so formal, Dave?

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Speaker 3: You sound terrible? Are you coming down with a cold?

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Speaker 3: And he's playing with pennies Dolly while Penny goes into

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Speaker 3: the kitchen to talk to her mom, and then Joyce

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Speaker 3: just happens to let slip. She's like, oh, Chet had

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Speaker 3: a brainstorm this morning, Dave something about giving out phony

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Speaker 3: information to Buchanan about where the men in protective custody

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Speaker 3: are when actually they are at the county jail. So

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Speaker 3: now not realizing that Dave is actually Adam brain Dave,

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Speaker 3: and now Buchanan has that information, you know where he's going.

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Speaker 3: He's going to the county jail to get his revenge.

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Speaker 3: But the end of the scene finally made sense sort

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Speaker 3: of some of the lyrics from the Rocky Ears and song,

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Speaker 3: which again I'd never seen the movie before, so I

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Speaker 3: didn't know what this referred to, but there are some

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Speaker 3: lyrics that say threw the doll right down, ripped its

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Speaker 3: guts off, and threw it on the ground. And at

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Speaker 3: the end of the scene, Penny comes back into the room,

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Speaker 3: Dave is gone, but she finds her doll just smashed

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Speaker 3: to pieces on the floor.

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Speaker 2: If you're not familiar with the lyrics of rocky erics

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Speaker 2: and songs, they often do have this kind of like

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Speaker 2: stream of consciousness kind of quality to them, and they

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Speaker 2: seem kind of cryptic and hard to decipher and don't

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Speaker 2: always include proper grammar, but often uses improper grammar in

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Speaker 2: ways that feel intentional and important to whatever he was

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Speaker 2: trying to get across.

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Speaker 3: Right, like the preposition ripped its guts off instead of

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Speaker 3: out interesting and it doesn't have guts, it's a doll. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: So Adam Brain Dave goes to get his revenge. Buchanan

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Speaker 3: sends him to the jail where he he kills the

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Speaker 3: other two witnesses. And then after that, Adam Brain Dave

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Speaker 3: tries to kill Chet because Chet gets into a car

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Speaker 3: with him and then they're like, crash the car, smash

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Speaker 3: it to pieces, but Chet jumps out of the car

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Speaker 3: in time to save himself. Though I don't know. If

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Speaker 3: you jump out of a speeding car, that's you're gonna

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Speaker 3: get hurt. That's not good for you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, not in movies. Though in movies you can just

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Speaker 2: jump out of them and you're fine.

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Speaker 3: It's the same principle as like if you jump up

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Speaker 3: right before the crashing plane hits the ground, you'll be okay.

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Speaker 3: But after this crash, the police recover Adam Brain Dave.

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Speaker 3: Adam Brain Dave is damaged, so he's no longer following

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Speaker 3: orders from Buchanan. But so they like they check him

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Speaker 3: out and they're like, oh wow, look at all the

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Speaker 3: electrodes in his brain. But he recovers some functionality. While

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Speaker 3: in the hospital, does another window stunt, like he pushes

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Speaker 3: the glass out of a window and then jumps out

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Speaker 3: the window to shamble back to Adam Brain HQ. This

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Speaker 3: leads the police in the military right to the bad

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Speaker 3: guys and we have our final showdown. Buchanan gets mad

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Speaker 3: at Steig for some reason. I don't remember why. Actually,

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Speaker 3: Buchanan just kills Stig.

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Speaker 2: I think the Stig finally is like I can't take

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01:14:10,040 --> 01:14:12,040
Speaker 2: it anymore. This is too much murder. I wasn't in

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01:14:12,080 --> 01:14:13,640
Speaker 2: it for the murder. I was just in it for

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01:14:13,680 --> 01:14:17,680
Speaker 2: the resurrection of the dead. And so he brains him

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Speaker 2: with a with a some sort of eye ranch or

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01:14:20,960 --> 01:14:22,880
Speaker 2: something before he can destroy the machine.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. So Buchanan then he gets all of his Adam

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Speaker 3: brains active at once. There's like ten of them, and

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Speaker 3: he's like, go out attack the police kill them all.

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Speaker 3: So there's a big fight where the police are all

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Speaker 3: fighting with Adam brains on the lawn and then Chet

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Speaker 3: has to go inside and smash up the machine. But

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Speaker 3: before he can do that, Buchanan corners him and there's

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01:14:46,240 --> 01:14:49,800
Speaker 3: like a there's a showdown there. But ultimately Buchanan is

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01:14:49,920 --> 01:14:54,799
Speaker 3: destroyed by his own wrath because one of the Adam

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Speaker 3: brains comes in and grabs it. I think it's the

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Speaker 3: Adam brain Dave maybe come in and grabs Buchanan and

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Speaker 3: strangles him. He kills him.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, destroyed by his own Adam brains. A fitting ending there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And then they destroy the Adam Ray machine and

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Speaker 3: that powers down all of the Adam brains on the

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Speaker 3: lawn and and good prevails over evil.

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Speaker 2: Pretty pretty solid ending mostly by the books. I loved

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Speaker 2: the battle on the lawn between the Adam brains and

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Speaker 2: law and military.

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Speaker 3: It was.

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Speaker 2: It was better than I expected it to be. And

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Speaker 2: again you get the people, you know, firing bullets through

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Speaker 2: the Adam brains and a lot of like crunching and

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Speaker 2: so forth. But then we close things out though with

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Speaker 2: the family unit at the dinner table with with with

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Speaker 2: Chet and his family.

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Speaker 3: And that's enough of that. Yeah, yeah, and.

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Speaker 2: We get this super weird ending where the little girl

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Speaker 2: what's her name, Henrietta.

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Speaker 3: No, Henrietta is the doll that got get stripped off.

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Speaker 3: The girl is Penny.

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Speaker 2: Penny, yes, sorry, Penny is asking about Uncle Dave. She's like,

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Speaker 2: where's Uncle Dave? And they don't tell her that he's dead.

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Speaker 2: They're like, oh, he's gone for a little while, Which

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01:16:11,040 --> 01:16:14,439
Speaker 2: is crazy, right, because it's one thing to you know,

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Speaker 2: obviously you want to keep it age appropriate. You don't

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Speaker 2: have to tell her that a career criminal and a

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Speaker 2: mad scientist murdered him and then stuffed his brain with

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01:16:22,720 --> 01:16:25,879
Speaker 2: electrodes and reanimated his corpse and made it do murders.

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01:16:26,400 --> 01:16:29,320
Speaker 2: But to just be like, oh, the Uncle Dave went

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Speaker 2: away for a little bit. He's on a vacation. No, No,

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Speaker 2: Uncle Dave is dead, Like, at least tell her he's dead.

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Speaker 3: He went up to an Adam farm upstate.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's so weird and perhaps you know, telling of

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Speaker 2: how you know we approached the protection of our children

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Speaker 2: in previous decades. I don't know.

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Speaker 3: All right, Well that's all I got to say about

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Speaker 3: Creature with the Adam Brain. Why is he acting so strange?

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Speaker 3: It's because he is a creature with an Adam brain.

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Speaker 3: The mystery is solved.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a fun one. If you enjoy fifties B movies,

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Speaker 2: this is a solid and entertaining good time.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: It's again it's not not top tier for genre and

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Speaker 2: time period, but pretty solid. It's never boring. There's a

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Speaker 2: lot a lot to love here. As always, we'd love

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Speaker 2: to hear from everyone out there if you have thoughts

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Speaker 2: on the movie of the week, Creature with the Adam Brain,

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Speaker 2: if you have thoughts on the music of Rocky ericson

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Speaker 2: as it relates to this movie, or just in general,

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Speaker 2: well yeah, right in we'd love to hear from you

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Speaker 2: throw in somewhere where you can stream that Rocky ericson

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