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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind, a production of

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

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Speaker 1: is Rob Lamb and this is Joe McCormick. And today's

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Speaker 1: movie on Weird House Cinema is the nine fantasy epic

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Speaker 1: beast Master two through the Portal of Time. Continuing a tradition. Well,

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Speaker 1: we've started on the show of covering the second movie

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Speaker 1: never discussed beast Master. In fact, I don't know if

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Speaker 1: I've ever even seen it all the way through. But

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Speaker 1: the first beast Master I think I've seen like half

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Speaker 1: of it. Oh, it's it's really good. I feel like

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Speaker 1: I can say without any doubt that the original beast

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Speaker 1: Master from Don Coscarelli is just a solid um leather

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Speaker 1: diaper movie. It's a solid um uh you know, Barbarian

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Speaker 1: wasteland conan ask motion picture with some awesome monsters in it, uh,

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Speaker 1: some fun performances and a great villain played by ripped

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Speaker 1: torn Well, fair enough. If beast Master one is your

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Speaker 1: idea of solid would say beast Master two is riven

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Speaker 1: with holes. It's like Swiss cheese maybe about to crumble apart.

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Speaker 1: But I had a good time revisiting this because I

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Speaker 1: remember this movie, uh in that it used to play

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Speaker 1: we picked this movie is that Rob we were talking

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Speaker 1: about examples of this bizarre sub genre that existed from

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Speaker 1: roughly the mid eighties to the early nineties, and the

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Speaker 1: sub genre was this, You take your leather diaper barbarian

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Speaker 1: or some other greased up fantasy muscleman who uh you know,

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Speaker 1: to the smog filled alleyways of modern day Los Angeles. Surprisingly,

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Speaker 1: there was more than one movie with this premise, so

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Speaker 1: I would say it's a variant on the standard fish

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Speaker 1: that we talked about in our episode on the Nicholas

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Speaker 1: Meyer movie Time after Time, the format we were calling

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Speaker 1: fish out of Time, except in the case of these

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Speaker 1: movies in particular, the beef warrior is typically said to

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Speaker 1: be traveling from some other dimension filled with wizards and

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Speaker 1: And I don't know, I mean, can you can You

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Speaker 1: is our imagined future, fantasy is our imagined past. So uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, it basically washes out there. Well, it's debatable

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Speaker 1: what's what actually happens in this movie itself because the

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Speaker 1: title is through the portal of time. But the characters

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Speaker 1: And I don't know. You can check your history books

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Speaker 1: for anything resembling our Lawn and le Rona and the

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Speaker 1: Beast Master, and I don't think it really shows up. Well,

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Speaker 1: you know, maybe it's a it's a it's a time

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Speaker 1: lost to history, right. Plenty of people today also describe

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Speaker 1: be traceable back to the the nineteen eighties seven he

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Speaker 1: Man movie Masters of the Universe, in which Dolph Lundgren

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Speaker 1: It was an interesting an interesting crazy like it was,

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Speaker 1: But but these weren't the only two movies. Amazingly, you

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Speaker 1: I wonder what it does say about the sort of

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Speaker 1: what's you see pal let's stick miller. Yeah, that's right. Uh.

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Speaker 1: but I don't remember Dracula's wife from the book. I mean,

425
00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:18,919
Speaker 1: of course I love her in the Superman movies, but

426
00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:21,679
Speaker 1: I guess there's so much going on, and those she

427
00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:24,480
Speaker 1: stood out less in a bad movie like this. She

428
00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:28,040
Speaker 1: really just like beams like the sun. Uh So, now

429
00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:30,239
Speaker 1: I want to see all of Sarah Douglas movies. I've

430
00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:34,040
Speaker 1: got to see her as Dracula's wife. She is, of course,

431
00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:36,919
Speaker 1: also in Jim Warnarski's uh the Return of the Swamp

432
00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:40,640
Speaker 1: Thing from nine. She pops up in puppet Master three,

433
00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:45,040
Speaker 1: Meatballs four, Return to the Living Dead three, and also

434
00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:48,320
Speaker 1: nineteen three Quest of the Delta Nights, which of course

435
00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:51,680
Speaker 1: famously stars David Warner in two different roles. So I

436
00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:54,400
Speaker 1: would say her legacy as a shirt we're not worthy,

437
00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:57,840
Speaker 1: all right, we are just she's She's an interesting there

438
00:24:57,880 --> 00:24:59,800
Speaker 1: because she's also not a pure villain. She's kind of

439
00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:02,760
Speaker 1: a wiener, right, She's a she's in it for herself.

440
00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:04,920
Speaker 1: She's having to work twice as hard as these other

441
00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:08,880
Speaker 1: characters to to achieve what she needs to get. Our

442
00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:13,200
Speaker 1: main like just pure villain that's played very straight, also

443
00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:15,280
Speaker 1: comes off as a dufe as plenty of times, but

444
00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:18,600
Speaker 1: this character is never quite winking at the camera. This

445
00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:23,159
Speaker 1: is the character Arclon, played by wings Houser. I'd say

446
00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:25,640
Speaker 1: this is another standout performance in the film. Our Our,

447
00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:28,439
Speaker 1: Our villain duo or are clearly the highlight for me,

448
00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:31,840
Speaker 1: Sarah Douglas is that ray of sunshine and Arclon is

449
00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:37,320
Speaker 1: just the glowing pits of hell. Yes. Oh, wings Houser,

450
00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:40,320
Speaker 1: there's so much wings Houser in this film. Um, and

451
00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:42,639
Speaker 1: it's it's probably not surprising that he has a screenwriting

452
00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:47,280
Speaker 1: credit as well. Um, so maybe those two are connected, um,

453
00:25:47,359 --> 00:25:49,480
Speaker 1: because he's probably like, I like this, but I think

454
00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:52,840
Speaker 1: this film needs needs more arc lin, I'll have some

455
00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:55,200
Speaker 1: pages for you. Well, yeah, you know, this movie does

456
00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:58,000
Speaker 1: something very well and despite all of our criticisms and

457
00:25:58,040 --> 00:26:00,800
Speaker 1: being honest and having to say, you know, a lot

458
00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:03,800
Speaker 1: of things about the script are not so good. Um.

459
00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:07,920
Speaker 1: It has villains in a silly movie where the actors

460
00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:10,560
Speaker 1: fully commit to going over the top like they're not

461
00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:13,280
Speaker 1: trying to be cool. They're you know, they're they're not

462
00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:16,359
Speaker 1: trying to say, oh, I don't want to look too silly.

463
00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:19,280
Speaker 1: They're they're just going for it and that that works. Yeah,

464
00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:21,840
Speaker 1: and and uh yeah, Wings Houser goes for it in

465
00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:25,879
Speaker 1: this um So this is the son of Hollywood Disney

466
00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:29,679
Speaker 1: director Dwight Houser, the father of actor Kohle Houser. If

467
00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:31,720
Speaker 1: anyone's seen a Cole Houser movie, I think he shows

468
00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:34,399
Speaker 1: up in in the Fast and the Furious movies at

469
00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:39,359
Speaker 1: some point. Maybe that's right. Wings, if you're wondering, was

470
00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:42,199
Speaker 1: a nickname he earned in high school sports. Uh. This

471
00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:45,080
Speaker 1: apparently is referring to the wing back position in football.

472
00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:48,679
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what that means, but that's where it

473
00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:51,399
Speaker 1: comes from. And he was also a musician for a

474
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Speaker 1: spell under the name Wings Living Right, putting out the

475
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Speaker 1: nine album Your Love keeps Me Off the Streets as

476
00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:04,760
Speaker 1: a wonderfully dorky album cover and uh, yeah, I don't

477
00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:06,639
Speaker 1: know your Love keeps Me off the Street? That doesn't

478
00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:09,119
Speaker 1: sound like a healthy relationship. I feel like there's some

479
00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:12,399
Speaker 1: imbalance going on here. You could make a poster for

480
00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:16,239
Speaker 1: be Smester two. That's like, that's Mark Singer saying that

481
00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:23,159
Speaker 1: to his ferrets. Yeah. So wings Houser is notable for it.

482
00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:24,600
Speaker 1: He's been in a lot of things over the years.

483
00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:28,359
Speaker 1: He played the violent pimp Ramrod and Gary Sherman's vice squad,

484
00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:31,960
Speaker 1: from a film that he also sang the theme song

485
00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:35,920
Speaker 1: for Neon Slime. Um. He's had notable roles in such

486
00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:39,159
Speaker 1: films as Tough Guys Don't Dance. He pops up in

487
00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:42,280
Speaker 1: The Insider, I think playing a big tobacco lawyer. Uh.

488
00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:46,720
Speaker 1: He's also in Tales from the Hood, Watchers, three Mutant,

489
00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:50,840
Speaker 1: and a movie called The Wind. Mutant has been featured

490
00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:52,800
Speaker 1: on Riff tracks before, and The Wind has been on

491
00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:55,399
Speaker 1: my radar for a while that this one looks kind

492
00:27:55,400 --> 00:28:00,600
Speaker 1: of interesting. Wings Houser has a distinctive screen presence that

493
00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:02,560
Speaker 1: I was I was working hard trying to figure out

494
00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:06,159
Speaker 1: how to describe, because wait a minute, you didn't. It

495
00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:08,320
Speaker 1: seems like you nailed it in your very first comment

496
00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:11,280
Speaker 1: to me. You texted me just the phrase tooth the egg.

497
00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:15,040
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, yeah, to tooth the egg. I think

498
00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:19,960
Speaker 1: that does encapsulate it. But um, he's like, it's easy

499
00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:22,760
Speaker 1: to think. Okay, there's a little bit of Gary Busey

500
00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:25,520
Speaker 1: to him, you know, like maybe he's like a a

501
00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:28,320
Speaker 1: discount Gary Busey, But it's it's more than that. He's

502
00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:31,800
Speaker 1: he's great at portraying this kind of unhinged turbo jock.

503
00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:34,040
Speaker 1: You know, he has that kind of physicality, but he

504
00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:37,160
Speaker 1: also has he had this largish head and a smile

505
00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:40,000
Speaker 1: that's just a full upper dental exam. Like with the smiles,

506
00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:42,120
Speaker 1: you can see all of his upper teeth, and it

507
00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:45,640
Speaker 1: makes for just a wonderfully sadistic smile. I think if

508
00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:47,920
Speaker 1: he had ever actually shaved his head, first of all,

509
00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:50,240
Speaker 1: he would have looked like a tooth the egg, but

510
00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:52,720
Speaker 1: he would have looked a lot like drawings I've seen

511
00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:57,480
Speaker 1: interpretations of the character Judge Holden from Blood Meridian. He's

512
00:28:57,520 --> 00:29:01,320
Speaker 1: also he's also a big guy, which helps tall. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

513
00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:02,880
Speaker 1: he's I think he's I looked up his height. I

514
00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:04,040
Speaker 1: was like, how big is this guy? And then I

515
00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:07,080
Speaker 1: think he's only six too. But but in movies, you

516
00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:10,080
Speaker 1: know a lot of times you're working at opposite actors

517
00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:12,760
Speaker 1: that are are really not that tall in stature, so

518
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:17,400
Speaker 1: you can still tower over somebody. Um seemed bigger to me, Yeah,

519
00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:21,560
Speaker 1: not like what Vince Vaughn is really tall, Like like

520
00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:23,840
Speaker 1: it probably and like they have to use special effects

521
00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:29,120
Speaker 1: to I think I've just read that he's like six

522
00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:31,280
Speaker 1: six something like that. I don't know. I think he's

523
00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:34,240
Speaker 1: still growing. He's like a reptile. Vince Vaughn's as tall

524
00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:39,440
Speaker 1: as Michael Jordan's or One more thing about about wings

525
00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:41,920
Speaker 1: Houser here is yes, he has a screenwriting credit on

526
00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:45,880
Speaker 1: Best Master two. Um. And he also this wasn't his

527
00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:49,200
Speaker 1: only the only time he had contributed to a screenplay.

528
00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:52,120
Speaker 1: He also contributed to the screenplays of Uncommon Valor, No

529
00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:56,840
Speaker 1: Safe Haven and Skins, from which he also directed. I've

530
00:29:56,880 --> 00:30:00,200
Speaker 1: never seen any of the wings Houser movies. UH think

531
00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:02,920
Speaker 1: you're fine skipping him, but he's pretty tremendous in this

532
00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:05,480
Speaker 1: all right. We have some a few other players in

533
00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:07,960
Speaker 1: smaller roles that I think are worth mentioning. We have

534
00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:09,680
Speaker 1: a we have a couple of cops that show up

535
00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:11,520
Speaker 1: because you gotta have cops on the scene to sort

536
00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:14,560
Speaker 1: of be bewildered by all this barbarian magic that's going

537
00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:18,480
Speaker 1: on in modern day l A. And they're both pretty fun.

538
00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:24,240
Speaker 1: But the main cop character is Lieutenant Cobberly played by uh,

539
00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:28,440
Speaker 1: they always fun, James Avery from Fresh Prince. Yeah, Yeah,

540
00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:32,400
Speaker 1: he played uh the the patriarch of the family, Philip Banks.

541
00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:35,400
Speaker 1: But but more than that, he also voiced Shredder on

542
00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:38,680
Speaker 1: the original Teenage Mustan Ninja Turtles animated series. Yeah, he

543
00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:40,800
Speaker 1: did a lot of voice acting. I was looking into

544
00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:43,520
Speaker 1: credits and I was like, wow, Yeah, especially some of

545
00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:45,880
Speaker 1: the shows from back in the day. He popped up

546
00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:48,840
Speaker 1: on a lot of those. Um, he he got to

547
00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:52,120
Speaker 1: play a cling on on Star Trek Enterprise. But it's

548
00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:54,280
Speaker 1: did a tremendous amount of TV where going back to

549
00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:57,760
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty I believe he lived ninety five through two

550
00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:02,120
Speaker 1: thousand thirteen. In this movie, he lays a a weary,

551
00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:06,959
Speaker 1: exasperated police commander who it's like, he's so tired of

552
00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:11,120
Speaker 1: dealing with like barbarians who show up through dimensional rifts.

553
00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:13,680
Speaker 1: You know, this is like the eighth one this week,

554
00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:18,000
Speaker 1: and it's just really wearing on him. Yeah, alright, um

555
00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:20,240
Speaker 1: now this is we get into a couple of very

556
00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:23,720
Speaker 1: small roles here, but they're worth mentioning. Because Robert Zadar

557
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:26,440
Speaker 1: shows up in this. I don't think he has any lines,

558
00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:29,920
Speaker 1: but he's you notice him in the background there. Yeah, yeah,

559
00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:33,120
Speaker 1: he may yell something. I'm not sure but that's the

560
00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:36,600
Speaker 1: extent of it. He plays. His character has a name,

561
00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:44,600
Speaker 1: Zavic Robert Zadar live Uh blow budget b movie legend.

562
00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:48,200
Speaker 1: Uh this man Uh, He's the man with a million

563
00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:50,640
Speaker 1: dollar chin. It's kind of shocking that it took this

564
00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:53,400
Speaker 1: long force to cover a film that has Roberts Zadar

565
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:56,280
Speaker 1: in it. He's probably best known to horror fans as

566
00:31:56,320 --> 00:32:00,080
Speaker 1: the original maniac Cop MST. Three K fans will know

567
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:03,560
Speaker 1: him best from Soul Taker in Future War, and mainstream

568
00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:07,000
Speaker 1: fans might remember him from playing u of I think

569
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:10,000
Speaker 1: he plays like a criminal or some sort of a

570
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:13,160
Speaker 1: heavy and tango in Cash, but he was in all

571
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:16,880
Speaker 1: sorts of low budget movies, including the excellent Samurai Cop.

572
00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:20,160
Speaker 1: He's the main antagonist in that. He also has a

573
00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:22,760
Speaker 1: role in A Cherry Too thousand, which is a lot

574
00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:26,440
Speaker 1: of fun. A memorable character actor h in part due

575
00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:30,800
Speaker 1: to his uh cherubism, which was a medical condition that

576
00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:32,880
Speaker 1: resulted in that in a large jaw line that he

577
00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:36,440
Speaker 1: has sometimes more pronounced in certain roles and certain times

578
00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:38,840
Speaker 1: in his life than others. But he was certainly one

579
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:41,720
Speaker 1: of a kind. When Sadar shows up on screen, you

580
00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:44,400
Speaker 1: know what you're dealing. With Yeah, if he's in the fight,

581
00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:47,040
Speaker 1: you know, the hero will not win unless it's in

582
00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:51,920
Speaker 1: the last five minutes of the movie. Now another UM

583
00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:54,800
Speaker 1: character actor with a very distinctive look that pops up

584
00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:57,479
Speaker 1: towards the end in a role that will describe later on.

585
00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:02,200
Speaker 1: Michael Berryman appears in the film Michael Berriman was born.

586
00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:09,360
Speaker 1: He was born with hypo hydraulic ectodermal dysplasia, a rare

587
00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:13,280
Speaker 1: condition characterized by the absence of sweat, glands, hair, and fingernails.

588
00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:16,480
Speaker 1: He has over a hundred screen credits, including memorable roles

589
00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:19,320
Speaker 1: of course and Wes Craven's The Hills and Eyes from

590
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:24,600
Speaker 1: seven at very another memorable role in Weird Science from five.

591
00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:27,520
Speaker 1: He's in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. He pops

592
00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:32,320
Speaker 1: up in Star Trek, The Voyage Home, the Barbarians from seven,

593
00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:35,400
Speaker 1: and so much more. Uh. He has a really fun

594
00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:38,640
Speaker 1: role in an episode of Tales from the Crypt, playing

595
00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:42,960
Speaker 1: a creepy vampire hunter opposite of the very likable vampire

596
00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:46,120
Speaker 1: played by Malcolm McDowell. Oh, I haven't seen that one.

597
00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:48,120
Speaker 1: Maybe I'll have to check it out. Yeah, the reluctant

598
00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:50,479
Speaker 1: vampire that's the name of it. It's it's pretty fun. Well,

599
00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:53,840
Speaker 1: it's interesting that Barryman barely has a role in this movie.

600
00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:55,959
Speaker 1: It's just a cameo. So it almost seems like they

601
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:59,400
Speaker 1: were just trying to pull in recognizable people from other

602
00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:02,160
Speaker 1: genre movev is just you know, for a day or something,

603
00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:04,680
Speaker 1: to say, hey, will you be in the scene. Yeah, yeah,

604
00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:08,120
Speaker 1: I mean, because someone like Barryman is certainly legendary now

605
00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:10,799
Speaker 1: and and even at the time. I think when they

606
00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:12,840
Speaker 1: were putting this together, it's like, oh, should get Barryman.

607
00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:15,879
Speaker 1: Let's let's bring him in and and really with our

608
00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:18,200
Speaker 1: our next cast member to mention again, this is a

609
00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:22,000
Speaker 1: bit part playing scientists. Number one is Dick Warlock. I

610
00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:24,879
Speaker 1: didn't even notice him. Yeah, I I noticed him only

611
00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:27,840
Speaker 1: because I knew to look for him. But this is

612
00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:31,319
Speaker 1: of course the stuntman and actor best known for his

613
00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:34,640
Speaker 1: work on various John Carpenter projects, including turns as Michael

614
00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:37,839
Speaker 1: Myers and of course The Killer Android and Halloween three

615
00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:40,640
Speaker 1: season of The Witch. Tom Atkins like punches him in

616
00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:43,680
Speaker 1: the stomach and a bunch of orange juice comes out. Yeah,

617
00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:45,840
Speaker 1: I think Dick Warlock does have a line in this.

618
00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:49,920
Speaker 1: I think he's the scientist who yells something when our

619
00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:53,880
Speaker 1: villains steals something from him. H And then finally, Frank Welker,

620
00:34:54,000 --> 00:35:00,080
Speaker 1: the legendary voice actor, is credited with several roles. I

621
00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:02,279
Speaker 1: believe these are all animals, So anytime you hear an

622
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:06,239
Speaker 1: animal screeching or growling or whatever in this film, it's

623
00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:09,719
Speaker 1: probably Frank Welker in a sound booth somewhere, and that's

624
00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:13,759
Speaker 1: exactly what you should think about when those sounds occur. Wow. Well,

625
00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:16,760
Speaker 1: I gotta say one of the most hilarious recurring things

626
00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:19,880
Speaker 1: in this movie is when Mark Singer himself would screech

627
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:23,439
Speaker 1: like an eagle to get his eagles attention. Every time

628
00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:26,680
Speaker 1: it happened, it was a fresh delight. Finally, I'll say

629
00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:29,959
Speaker 1: that the music for this film, while nothing that really

630
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:32,040
Speaker 1: stands out to me, but also something. The weird thing

631
00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:34,080
Speaker 1: is this was a soundtrack that was released on CD.

632
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:38,120
Speaker 1: So many we've touched on far more interesting scores that

633
00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:40,520
Speaker 1: never had any kind of release, but this one was released.

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Speaker 1: It's from Robert folk Borne TV and film composer who

635
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Speaker 1: worked on ace Ventura Too, The Never Ending Story to

636
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Speaker 1: Van Wilder, Two Boys Life Too, lawnmower Man two, and

637
00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:57,040
Speaker 1: Police Academy too. To be fair, he did like seven

638
00:35:57,040 --> 00:35:59,800
Speaker 1: Police getting a movie, so um. He also scored the

639
00:35:59,880 --> 00:36:03,080
Speaker 1: night teen eight two j S. Cardone movie The Slayer,

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Speaker 1: which I've mentioned on the show before because it takes

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00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:07,840
Speaker 1: place on George's own Tybee Island. It seems like that

642
00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:10,200
Speaker 1: comes up every episode. Now I know I'm gonna have

643
00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:12,600
Speaker 1: to break down and watch it again, Okay, but only

644
00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:14,200
Speaker 1: I know I should only watch it if I go

645
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Speaker 1: back to Tybee Island. It's really it's it's best. It's

646
00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:20,359
Speaker 1: best experienced if you have some connection to the place

647
00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:30,920
Speaker 1: where it's films. So I guess if it's time to

648
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Speaker 1: talk about the plot, Rob, I'm gonna say before we

649
00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:36,319
Speaker 1: get to anything else. I don't know if you notice

650
00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:38,920
Speaker 1: the same thing, but for most of the runtime of

651
00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:42,160
Speaker 1: this movie, it does not have enough colors in it.

652
00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:46,840
Speaker 1: There are long stretches where basically everything on screen is

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00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:50,040
Speaker 1: some shade of orange, and then finally they go to

654
00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:51,840
Speaker 1: l A and then there are a bunch of colors

655
00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:54,320
Speaker 1: and it's great. But like the scenes that take place

656
00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:58,160
Speaker 1: in the fantasy realm are just like orange on orange

657
00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:01,839
Speaker 1: on orange, and it really starts aware on the eyes. Yeah,

658
00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:04,960
Speaker 1: I mean, it is a desert Wasteland World. So I

659
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:07,719
Speaker 1: guess some of that makes sense, but okay, So to

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Speaker 1: address the beginning, the film opens on a setting sun

661
00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:16,719
Speaker 1: on a horizon of sand dunes. Everything's orange, uh, and

662
00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:20,200
Speaker 1: we see a text crawl in orange text saying, in

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Speaker 1: the days following the death of King z A darkness

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Speaker 1: has fallen over the land of Iraq. Oh I forgot

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Speaker 1: the land had a name. I've just been calling it

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00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:31,799
Speaker 1: like desert World or beast Master World. Okay, it's raqu

667
00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:35,920
Speaker 1: it says the evil warlord r Clan, using unholy magic,

668
00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:39,239
Speaker 1: has enslaved the people. Their only hope rests with the

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Speaker 1: rebel forces marshaling in the east under the leadership of

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Speaker 1: Dar the Beast Master. I have to say that this movie,

671
00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:52,960
Speaker 1: hilariously at times, puts in a little extra work to

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00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:57,480
Speaker 1: connect itself to the story of Beast Master one, when

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00:37:57,560 --> 00:37:59,960
Speaker 1: really it's it was totally unnecessary. I mean, this is

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Speaker 1: a movie in which, at one point in l A,

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Speaker 1: the Beast Master drives is riding past a movie theater.

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00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:10,880
Speaker 1: In the movie theater on the marquee, it says Beast

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Speaker 1: Master two through the portal of time. Um, and hey,

678
00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:18,040
Speaker 1: any comments on it like that's this is the level

679
00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:19,799
Speaker 1: of movie this is. You really don't have to work

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00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:21,719
Speaker 1: too hard to stitch it into the plot of the

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00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:26,040
Speaker 1: previous installment. Also, doesn't it rhet like, doesn't it take

682
00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:28,880
Speaker 1: characters that were killed in the first Beast Master movie

683
00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:32,160
Speaker 1: and just they're alive again? Um like maybe some of

684
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Speaker 1: the animals. Yeah, yes, yeah, at least that's what I read. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So it's weird that at times they they're throwing in

686
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Speaker 1: extra lines to to sort of connect things, and like,

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Speaker 1: does it really matter that the villain and the beast

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00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:46,239
Speaker 1: Master are brothers. I don't know. It just gives them

689
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Speaker 1: something to talk about while swinging swords. I guess. Did

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00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:51,440
Speaker 1: you notice that the title when it pops up, it

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Speaker 1: says beast Master two Through the Portal of Time. It

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Speaker 1: looks like a title that would be printed on the

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Speaker 1: side of an arcade cabinet. Like it looks like I

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Speaker 1: should say, insert Waite's below it. Yeah, yeah, you're right.

695
00:39:02,239 --> 00:39:03,840
Speaker 1: I didn't think about that when I saw it, but

696
00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:07,480
Speaker 1: now uh yeah, absolutely, like he just washed out on

697
00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:10,960
Speaker 1: Golden Axe or on the Neo Geo machine, and you're like, oh,

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00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:13,200
Speaker 1: let's give beast Master two through the Portal of time

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00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:16,360
Speaker 1: a try, all right, But the opening is you have

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Speaker 1: a bunch of evil, faceless warriors in leather armor and

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00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:22,719
Speaker 1: they're bringing a captive into some underground layer. So we

702
00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:26,360
Speaker 1: have a cave's very orange lit by firelight orange rocks,

703
00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:30,279
Speaker 1: and the the guards take the hood off of the

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Speaker 1: captive and it is our hero Dar. You remember him

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00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:37,000
Speaker 1: from the previous beast Master movie, and uh, how to

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Speaker 1: describe Dar the beast Master? I would say he is

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00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:43,640
Speaker 1: a baby oiled muscle guy in a loincloth wearing a

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Speaker 1: leather strap around his forehead so it's under the hair,

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00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:50,800
Speaker 1: just going around the head and a cascade of blonde

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00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:54,880
Speaker 1: hair flowing over each year. Yeah, surfer dude, physique, surfer

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00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:58,040
Speaker 1: dude hair. And so the soldiers are bringing Dar before

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Speaker 1: some kind of counsel of creep. So I didn't know

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Speaker 1: who these dudes were, but they're these like guys in

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Speaker 1: Hood's kind of looks like he has to face the

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Speaker 1: judgment of three brain guys from Mystery Science Theater. And

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Speaker 1: they sit there and they scowl at him, and we

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00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:16,360
Speaker 1: get our Arklon reveal because wings Houser walks out and

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00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:20,240
Speaker 1: sneers mightily. Oh and also we get a brief glimpse

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Speaker 1: of Roberts that are here. He's one of the soldiers

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Speaker 1: in the background, and he's wearing a hat that looks

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Speaker 1: like an upside down boat. Yes. Oh, and I forgot

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Speaker 1: how quickly they introduced all the characters here, because the

723
00:40:29,719 --> 00:40:33,400
Speaker 1: lead creep of the Council of Brain Guys pushes Dar's

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Speaker 1: sword and satchel off the table and disgust and immediately

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Speaker 1: we get a ferret reveal because the bag falls to

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Speaker 1: the ground and then two ferrets squeak and crawl out

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Speaker 1: of the bag. These are Kodo and Poto, are loyal

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00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:48,799
Speaker 1: Faret friends for the rest of the film. Yes, they

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00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:51,400
Speaker 1: don't necessarily do a lot in this film versus the

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Speaker 1: first film, but but still they're cute when they're on screen. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And it makes for some some weird scenes with the

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Speaker 1: brandishing of yes, uh no, no, no no, they're good. I

733
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Speaker 1: like the ferrets. They yeah, you're right, they don't do much.

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Speaker 1: They do a bit at the beginning, though. Um so,

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Speaker 1: the brain guy renders the verdict. He says the man

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Speaker 1: named Dar has been found guilty of complicity with the

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Speaker 1: rebels to overthrow the Holy power of Lord Arklon. So oh,

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Speaker 1: anti ark laon activities. That sounds very serious, and he

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00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:25,879
Speaker 1: says the accused has also demonstrated a knowledge of witchcraft

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Speaker 1: in his ability to control the beasts of the field.

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00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:34,000
Speaker 1: So sintences death. What hypocrisy, I know. But so Arclon,

742
00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:35,960
Speaker 1: by the way, won't just take the win and have

743
00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:38,480
Speaker 1: his enemy beheaded. He has to gloat for a while.

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00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:41,080
Speaker 1: And he does a gesture at the at dar is

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00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:43,680
Speaker 1: he doing the fig gesture? It kind of looks like it,

746
00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:46,120
Speaker 1: but or maybe he's just making a weird fist. Yeah,

747
00:41:46,160 --> 00:41:47,920
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I couldn't really make it out. I

748
00:41:47,960 --> 00:41:49,920
Speaker 1: feel like it would be a strange choice to have

749
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Speaker 1: the villain of the movie just do the fig into

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00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:54,279
Speaker 1: the camera. I mean, he may it might have just

751
00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:57,200
Speaker 1: been gesticulating just so hard, you know, because again Wing's

752
00:41:57,239 --> 00:41:59,560
Speaker 1: house or just pours it all into this role, just

753
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:04,920
Speaker 1: instantly snarling and seething or gloating. Um, there's there's no

754
00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:07,719
Speaker 1: subtlety to this character. And oh and he tries to

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00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:10,000
Speaker 1: I think tie it into the events of the first

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Speaker 1: movie because Wingshouser is like, so, this is the beast

757
00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:16,920
Speaker 1: master who killed our priest may Ox and now challenges

758
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:20,000
Speaker 1: my authority but was that ripped Horn in the first movie.

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00:42:20,120 --> 00:42:22,040
Speaker 1: I believe that was Ripped Horn's character. I could be

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00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:24,760
Speaker 1: wrong on that, but yeah, Ripped Horn played a marvel also,

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00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:28,120
Speaker 1: you know, totally overacting and chewing up the scene, but

762
00:42:28,160 --> 00:42:30,800
Speaker 1: in a suitably ripped Horn way. He was like he

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00:42:30,840 --> 00:42:34,680
Speaker 1: had a high priest, loved to sacrifice children. Well, anyway,

764
00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:36,799
Speaker 1: so one of the brain guys says, in the name

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00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:40,120
Speaker 1: of Lord r Klan, I hereby condemn you to eternal

766
00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:44,240
Speaker 1: damn nation. And I was like, what he can do that? That? Wow,

767
00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:47,160
Speaker 1: I I can say it anyway. So Dar just stares

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00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:49,759
Speaker 1: at everybody in the scene. He doesn't talk, and they

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00:42:49,760 --> 00:42:51,759
Speaker 1: take him up to some kind of altar where they're

770
00:42:51,760 --> 00:42:55,200
Speaker 1: gonna decapitate him, you know. They bring up the jack

771
00:42:55,320 --> 00:42:59,120
Speaker 1: catch of our colonia, and just before the axe falls,

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00:42:59,200 --> 00:43:02,360
Speaker 1: dares rest you by his loyal beast buddies. So his

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00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:06,720
Speaker 1: tiger rue attacks the guards, and then he's got two ferrets,

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00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:08,680
Speaker 1: Kodo and Poto. They're the ones that crawled out of

775
00:43:08,719 --> 00:43:11,840
Speaker 1: the bag earlier. They gnaw the ropes off of his wrists.

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00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:15,160
Speaker 1: And he's got a pet eagle named Shirok who flies

777
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:18,280
Speaker 1: around squawking at things and there's a big fight scene.

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00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:21,080
Speaker 1: Eventually it comes down to Dar and Arklon, and Arklon

779
00:43:21,239 --> 00:43:24,719
Speaker 1: has a secret weapon that he uses throughout the entire movie.

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00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:26,200
Speaker 1: So maybe we should know the name of it. Is

781
00:43:26,239 --> 00:43:29,279
Speaker 1: this rob Is this the Key of Magog? I think

782
00:43:29,320 --> 00:43:31,920
Speaker 1: they only say the name of it once. Yes, this

783
00:43:31,960 --> 00:43:35,279
Speaker 1: is the Key of Macogue. Um. And it's pretty cool.

784
00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:38,319
Speaker 1: It's like, uh, it's not not your typical wand it

785
00:43:38,440 --> 00:43:42,839
Speaker 1: has like a laser emitter on both ends and then

786
00:43:42,880 --> 00:43:47,239
Speaker 1: they shoot lasers together which can join into a single being.

787
00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:49,200
Speaker 1: He seems to have. There's the different settings, like sometimes

788
00:43:49,239 --> 00:43:51,440
Speaker 1: he seems to have it set to stun, other times

789
00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:54,319
Speaker 1: he has it set to open giant flaming crack in

790
00:43:54,320 --> 00:43:56,920
Speaker 1: the earth. Um. So I'm not sure exactly how the

791
00:43:56,960 --> 00:43:59,600
Speaker 1: interface works here. He can someone wins out of it,

792
00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:01,560
Speaker 1: some not ms. He shoots a laser, but it's not

793
00:44:01,640 --> 00:44:05,640
Speaker 1: a laser. It like creates a storm. But when faced

794
00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:08,720
Speaker 1: with this laser weapon, Dar pulls out his secret weapon,

795
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Speaker 1: which is going squawking like a bird at his eagle. Uh.

796
00:44:13,160 --> 00:44:16,240
Speaker 1: This hilarious activity that he repeats many times in the film.

797
00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:19,600
Speaker 1: And then the eagle flies in and and just gashes

798
00:44:19,640 --> 00:44:23,360
Speaker 1: up our Klon's face really good, just claws out, destroying

799
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Speaker 1: Arklan's beautiful visage. And every scene after this, our Klan

800
00:44:27,760 --> 00:44:31,200
Speaker 1: wears a Fantom of the Opera mask, but darn is

801
00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:33,520
Speaker 1: his animal buddies escape. They get out of the stone

802
00:44:33,560 --> 00:44:36,880
Speaker 1: fortress right off into the desert, pursued by Arklon's guards.

803
00:44:37,719 --> 00:44:40,400
Speaker 1: And in the next scene we meet the rebels that

804
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Speaker 1: Arklon is so worried about. And once you see them,

805
00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:44,600
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know if it seems like

806
00:44:44,640 --> 00:44:46,680
Speaker 1: he should be all that concerned. These guys do not

807
00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:49,000
Speaker 1: appear to have it together. They are like a gaggle

808
00:44:49,120 --> 00:44:53,320
Speaker 1: of confused men wandering around in the desert, awkwardly holding

809
00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:57,640
Speaker 1: plastic swords. But they do have one ace in the hole,

810
00:44:57,680 --> 00:45:01,120
Speaker 1: which is custody of quote the wind Witch, who is

811
00:45:01,200 --> 00:45:04,680
Speaker 1: the sorceress le Rona. And this is our introduction to

812
00:45:04,680 --> 00:45:07,200
Speaker 1: to Sarah Douglas again, I think the best actor in

813
00:45:07,239 --> 00:45:10,319
Speaker 1: the movie by a mile. When we were watching this,

814
00:45:10,440 --> 00:45:13,120
Speaker 1: Rachel said, Wow, she really puts the wit in which

815
00:45:13,719 --> 00:45:15,640
Speaker 1: and I think that sums it up pretty well. She is,

816
00:45:15,680 --> 00:45:18,800
Speaker 1: as we were saying, operating on a plane of reality above.

817
00:45:18,960 --> 00:45:21,640
Speaker 1: The rest of the movie is like she is riffing

818
00:45:21,680 --> 00:45:24,520
Speaker 1: the movie, but also a character within it. So she's

819
00:45:24,520 --> 00:45:29,520
Speaker 1: all weird jokes, saucy innu window and Austin Powers level

820
00:45:29,600 --> 00:45:34,040
Speaker 1: one liners. Like seconds after her introduction, a rebel leader

821
00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:37,319
Speaker 1: is skewered through the neck with an arrow and she's like,

822
00:45:37,640 --> 00:45:40,200
Speaker 1: I guess he got the point. Uh. Yeah, the first

823
00:45:40,239 --> 00:45:43,560
Speaker 1: of many great one liners from her. Uh. And she

824
00:45:43,640 --> 00:45:46,319
Speaker 1: has something she keeps busting out just because he's so good.

825
00:45:46,360 --> 00:45:49,200
Speaker 1: She keeps she she keeps punching up her material. Yeah,

826
00:45:49,280 --> 00:45:52,600
Speaker 1: she's like Roger Moore as James Bond as a sorceress.

827
00:45:54,080 --> 00:45:56,399
Speaker 1: And I guess the idea. At first, I wasn't sure

828
00:45:56,640 --> 00:45:59,000
Speaker 1: if she was from our world, if she was from

829
00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:03,080
Speaker 1: l A Uh, But it seems like that's not the case.

830
00:46:03,320 --> 00:46:07,280
Speaker 1: She's just she's either visited it before or she's watched

831
00:46:07,280 --> 00:46:09,759
Speaker 1: it through the time gate enough that she's she's hipped

832
00:46:09,760 --> 00:46:11,640
Speaker 1: to a little bit of what this other world is about,

833
00:46:11,680 --> 00:46:13,640
Speaker 1: and she's picked up some of the lingo. Yeah, I

834
00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:16,080
Speaker 1: think that's right. I think she is a sorceress from

835
00:46:16,080 --> 00:46:19,160
Speaker 1: the fantasy world. She's from a rock or wherever this is.

836
00:46:19,239 --> 00:46:22,240
Speaker 1: And but she has been to l A many times,

837
00:46:22,280 --> 00:46:24,760
Speaker 1: I believe, or at least watched it because she already

838
00:46:24,800 --> 00:46:29,440
Speaker 1: knows how to do Valley speak. But anyway, Lerona tricks

839
00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:32,480
Speaker 1: the rebels into being ambushed by Arklan because that's her

840
00:46:32,520 --> 00:46:35,840
Speaker 1: ultimate game plan. She wants to join forces with Arklon anyway,

841
00:46:36,239 --> 00:46:38,360
Speaker 1: and we find out later that her plan all along

842
00:46:38,440 --> 00:46:41,800
Speaker 1: was to kill him and then take over the kingdom

843
00:46:41,880 --> 00:46:44,919
Speaker 1: for herself. But but at this point, she's just sort

844
00:46:44,960 --> 00:46:47,319
Speaker 1: of like going along with him, I think, to to

845
00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:50,799
Speaker 1: make use of his army, right, and uh, to manipulate

846
00:46:50,880 --> 00:46:54,560
Speaker 1: him as best she can. Like one thing Wingshauser decides

847
00:46:54,640 --> 00:46:57,520
Speaker 1: to do with the Arklon character is he starts cackling

848
00:46:57,640 --> 00:47:00,640
Speaker 1: every time he shoots his magic laser, like it's real

849
00:47:00,760 --> 00:47:03,520
Speaker 1: funny to him. Yes, yeah, there's never a dull moment

850
00:47:03,560 --> 00:47:06,719
Speaker 1: with arc Lan. He's just he's just always letting loose.

851
00:47:07,080 --> 00:47:10,279
Speaker 1: The battle scene here has some really funny fake boulders,

852
00:47:10,280 --> 00:47:13,080
Speaker 1: like he uses the laser to make the boulders roll

853
00:47:13,160 --> 00:47:16,400
Speaker 1: and they're almost perfectly spherical. Yea, there's some boulders following.

854
00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:19,080
Speaker 1: It's it's pretty great. Yeah, But ark Laan wins and

855
00:47:19,120 --> 00:47:22,239
Speaker 1: then Lerona the which she makes her appeal. She says, well, yes,

856
00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:24,839
Speaker 1: you have the power of the key of Megog, that's

857
00:47:24,840 --> 00:47:28,400
Speaker 1: his laser Wand but you can't win this conflict without

858
00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:31,120
Speaker 1: my help. Uh. And this is the scene where she

859
00:47:31,160 --> 00:47:34,160
Speaker 1: not only makes the strategic appeal to Arklan, she starts

860
00:47:34,239 --> 00:47:37,200
Speaker 1: using this excruciating valley speaks. At one point, she says,

861
00:47:37,280 --> 00:47:41,560
Speaker 1: chill out, lord, dude, I love it. Perhaps perhaps the

862
00:47:41,560 --> 00:47:45,640
Speaker 1: greatest line in the whole picture. And and he's all like,

863
00:47:45,719 --> 00:47:49,439
Speaker 1: what is this strange tongue in which you speak? Yeah,

864
00:47:49,520 --> 00:47:51,680
Speaker 1: And he keeps h like sh Like at first he

865
00:47:51,960 --> 00:47:54,320
Speaker 1: he tells his guards it's like have her drawn and quartered,

866
00:47:54,360 --> 00:47:56,000
Speaker 1: and then he like kind of tries to fake her

867
00:47:56,000 --> 00:47:58,680
Speaker 1: and he's like burn her alive. And I kind of

868
00:47:58,680 --> 00:48:00,880
Speaker 1: felt bad for the guards here. It's like, oh my goodness.

869
00:48:00,880 --> 00:48:02,880
Speaker 1: Like both of those things take a lot of work.

870
00:48:03,239 --> 00:48:06,719
Speaker 1: Like this guy is such a fuss. He can't just

871
00:48:06,880 --> 00:48:09,400
Speaker 1: order somebody murdered on the spot. No, it's got to

872
00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:12,040
Speaker 1: be a huge production that's gonna just take up time

873
00:48:12,080 --> 00:48:15,480
Speaker 1: and resources. It's a wonder he gets anything done. Yeah.

874
00:48:15,600 --> 00:48:17,960
Speaker 1: But anyway, her pitch is that, well, he may be

875
00:48:18,120 --> 00:48:20,120
Speaker 1: the most powerful man in the world, but only she

876
00:48:20,239 --> 00:48:23,080
Speaker 1: can provide him with the power to make himself a god.

877
00:48:23,280 --> 00:48:25,880
Speaker 1: And I think she knows how to appeal to Arclon.

878
00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:28,040
Speaker 1: He is intrigued, so he, you know, he lets her

879
00:48:28,080 --> 00:48:30,040
Speaker 1: live for the moment, and and they're going to set

880
00:48:30,120 --> 00:48:33,279
Speaker 1: up an alliance. And meanwhile we go back to Dar

881
00:48:33,440 --> 00:48:36,680
Speaker 1: and this is onto the swamp sequence, a very weird

882
00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:40,440
Speaker 1: scene that feels visually at least out of place with

883
00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:42,920
Speaker 1: the rest of the movie. But here's the basic rundown. Okay,

884
00:48:42,920 --> 00:48:46,319
Speaker 1: So Arklan's guards still chasing Dar. They chase him into

885
00:48:46,360 --> 00:48:48,840
Speaker 1: the swamp. Then they are mauled by some kind of

886
00:48:48,880 --> 00:48:51,960
Speaker 1: horrible bog critter with glowing eyes that looks sort of

887
00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:55,520
Speaker 1: like a cross between swamp thing and Augura from the

888
00:48:55,600 --> 00:49:00,400
Speaker 1: Dark Crystal. Then swamp critter attacks Dar, but then tops

889
00:49:00,880 --> 00:49:03,279
Speaker 1: and then it starts to talk, and it gives him

890
00:49:03,280 --> 00:49:05,680
Speaker 1: a whole speech, the gist of which is, I am

891
00:49:05,760 --> 00:49:09,160
Speaker 1: your aunt. I was turned into a swamp critter because

892
00:49:09,160 --> 00:49:12,440
Speaker 1: I did unholy rituals Our Clawn is your brother, and

893
00:49:12,480 --> 00:49:14,360
Speaker 1: you have to defeat him or it will be the

894
00:49:14,440 --> 00:49:19,040
Speaker 1: end of the world. I believe that Jim Narsky has

895
00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:23,799
Speaker 1: has commented that the original script or somebody I've read

896
00:49:23,920 --> 00:49:26,279
Speaker 1: somewhere that the original script was more based in the

897
00:49:26,320 --> 00:49:29,239
Speaker 1: fantasy world in less than hours, if not exclusively in

898
00:49:29,239 --> 00:49:31,960
Speaker 1: the fantasy world, I'm not sure, but like, this is

899
00:49:31,960 --> 00:49:34,960
Speaker 1: definitely a scene where that feels like an artifact of

900
00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:39,200
Speaker 1: an earlier draft that maybe was more connected with things

901
00:49:39,239 --> 00:49:41,960
Speaker 1: in uh, an earlier draft of the script. I love

902
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:45,719
Speaker 1: that it's his aunt though, what a choice. Yeah, and

903
00:49:45,760 --> 00:49:47,880
Speaker 1: he's totally surprised that he's like, I didn't even know

904
00:49:47,920 --> 00:49:49,840
Speaker 1: I had an aunt, much less that she was a

905
00:49:49,840 --> 00:49:53,480
Speaker 1: swamp critter. Yeah. Anyway, next scene, we finally get the

906
00:49:53,520 --> 00:49:57,400
Speaker 1: Portal of time reveal. Uh so, uh, Rob, can you

907
00:49:57,440 --> 00:49:59,440
Speaker 1: describe the scene? This is the scene where le Rona

908
00:49:59,560 --> 00:50:03,640
Speaker 1: shows off the portal to l A uh to Arklon,

909
00:50:03,800 --> 00:50:06,640
Speaker 1: and Arklon, as he does many times in the movie,

910
00:50:06,719 --> 00:50:10,080
Speaker 1: can't pronounce the words she's telling him from our world correctly.

911
00:50:10,480 --> 00:50:12,960
Speaker 1: So she's like the natives call it l A and

912
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:19,200
Speaker 1: he's like a l A yeah. And and in first

913
00:50:19,200 --> 00:50:21,120
Speaker 1: season not sure that this is an actual portal. He

914
00:50:21,120 --> 00:50:23,880
Speaker 1: thinks it's an illusion, but he's he's very impressed, and

915
00:50:23,960 --> 00:50:26,719
Speaker 1: she quickly impresses upon him that, like, this is the

916
00:50:26,760 --> 00:50:29,799
Speaker 1: place where you can really make your future because it's

917
00:50:29,920 --> 00:50:32,160
Speaker 1: l A right. Uh, this is this is the place

918
00:50:32,200 --> 00:50:35,120
Speaker 1: that that that draws many people who who are dreaming

919
00:50:35,160 --> 00:50:37,640
Speaker 1: of reaching that next level of success. You know, some

920
00:50:37,640 --> 00:50:40,080
Speaker 1: people want to get into the movie. Some people want

921
00:50:40,120 --> 00:50:42,959
Speaker 1: to you know, rule the world. And uh and that's

922
00:50:42,960 --> 00:50:45,719
Speaker 1: where where Lan comes in here. Well, yeah, she gets

923
00:50:45,800 --> 00:50:49,080
Speaker 1: him all riled up about something called a neutron detonator,

924
00:50:49,640 --> 00:50:52,600
Speaker 1: which is some kind of device that, if detonated, will

925
00:50:52,640 --> 00:50:56,759
Speaker 1: destroy the entire world and uh so, and she's like,

926
00:50:56,800 --> 00:50:58,520
Speaker 1: they have it in this world, but you can steal

927
00:50:58,560 --> 00:51:00,480
Speaker 1: it and bring it back to our old and then

928
00:51:00,520 --> 00:51:03,680
Speaker 1: you will rule with no challenge. I mean, luckily she

929
00:51:03,800 --> 00:51:06,080
Speaker 1: is just manipulating him here, so we can sort of,

930
00:51:06,880 --> 00:51:10,319
Speaker 1: you know, dismiss a lot of the ridiculousness of this.

931
00:51:10,440 --> 00:51:12,680
Speaker 1: She's just saying, there's something so powerful can to destroy

932
00:51:12,719 --> 00:51:15,040
Speaker 1: a world here? Don't you want that? And he's like, yes,

933
00:51:15,080 --> 00:51:18,600
Speaker 1: of course that sounds awesome. Um though, of course, in reality,

934
00:51:19,400 --> 00:51:22,000
Speaker 1: like I was thinking about this a little bit, it's like, Okay,

935
00:51:23,120 --> 00:51:26,640
Speaker 1: let's assume this is essentially a nuclear weapon. If our

936
00:51:26,719 --> 00:51:30,640
Speaker 1: Klon brings a nuclear weapon back to his barbarian fantasy world,

937
00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:34,359
Speaker 1: like the applications they are pretty limited. Uh, Like, you've

938
00:51:34,360 --> 00:51:37,360
Speaker 1: got to have a very specific use of said weapon

939
00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:41,160
Speaker 1: in order to really do anything in the world that

940
00:51:41,160 --> 00:51:44,120
Speaker 1: that benefits yourself. Like I was, I was trying to think, well,

941
00:51:44,120 --> 00:51:45,560
Speaker 1: what what could he do? Like, yeah, I guess you

942
00:51:45,560 --> 00:51:48,000
Speaker 1: could smuggle it into like a rival kingdom and set

943
00:51:48,040 --> 00:51:51,680
Speaker 1: it off. Um. I think at one point in the

944
00:51:51,800 --> 00:51:57,400
Speaker 1: in our Scott Baker's um Uh fantasy series, there's a

945
00:51:57,560 --> 00:52:00,480
Speaker 1: use of an atomic weapon in a fantasy the setting

946
00:52:00,520 --> 00:52:03,840
Speaker 1: that that ultimately makes sense. I think, okay, that that

947
00:52:03,960 --> 00:52:05,520
Speaker 1: seems like the kind of thing you could do if

948
00:52:05,520 --> 00:52:07,680
Speaker 1: you could, you know, position it in a place where

949
00:52:07,920 --> 00:52:11,680
Speaker 1: an advancing army might run into it. But but otherwise, yeah,

950
00:52:11,719 --> 00:52:13,960
Speaker 1: what's this going to do for him? Uh? And he

951
00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:16,480
Speaker 1: doesn't really understand it either, though it is neat that

952
00:52:16,520 --> 00:52:18,919
Speaker 1: when he first sees a car, he's like, oh, these

953
00:52:19,040 --> 00:52:21,560
Speaker 1: these would really help us, And that ultimately makes more sense,

954
00:52:21,600 --> 00:52:23,680
Speaker 1: Like you can imagine if he just had a fleet

955
00:52:23,719 --> 00:52:26,520
Speaker 1: of trucks, that is something that can make a strategic

956
00:52:26,560 --> 00:52:29,960
Speaker 1: difference in the world that he comes from. Yeah, that

957
00:52:30,080 --> 00:52:32,239
Speaker 1: is what he should want his cars. And in fact, yeah,

958
00:52:32,239 --> 00:52:34,200
Speaker 1: he does see it. He goes, what an incredible machine

959
00:52:34,239 --> 00:52:37,279
Speaker 1: with this, I could rule the world and uh, and

960
00:52:37,360 --> 00:52:39,879
Speaker 1: Sarah Douglas is like, it's called a car and he says,

961
00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:55,279
Speaker 1: a dor no, a car, A car. Oh. But also

962
00:52:55,360 --> 00:52:57,600
Speaker 1: at the time they're looking at this portal, we get

963
00:52:57,600 --> 00:52:59,480
Speaker 1: a peek at the other side and we meet our

964
00:52:59,520 --> 00:53:03,759
Speaker 1: main character from the real world, played by Carrie we Were.

965
00:53:03,840 --> 00:53:07,439
Speaker 1: This is Jackie Trent, daughter of a certain Senator Trent,

966
00:53:07,640 --> 00:53:09,799
Speaker 1: which I think is also the name of bad guy

967
00:53:09,880 --> 00:53:12,040
Speaker 1: from one of those other bad eighties action movies that

968
00:53:12,120 --> 00:53:16,799
Speaker 1: Hard to Kill or something. Um. Anyway, Jackie is a

969
00:53:16,840 --> 00:53:21,160
Speaker 1: twentysomething Californian who likes to party and likes who enjoys

970
00:53:21,200 --> 00:53:24,640
Speaker 1: reckless driving. And in the first scene, she is driving

971
00:53:24,640 --> 00:53:28,000
Speaker 1: recklessly while speaking to her father on a mobile telephone.

972
00:53:28,400 --> 00:53:31,160
Speaker 1: The police are in hot pursuit She's trying to outrun

973
00:53:31,239 --> 00:53:34,320
Speaker 1: them while she is listening to knock off Kinney Loggins.

974
00:53:34,400 --> 00:53:37,239
Speaker 1: It is uh, it felt very on the nose from

975
00:53:37,360 --> 00:53:40,360
Speaker 1: it was like, you know, it's like, I'm all good,

976
00:53:40,440 --> 00:53:43,440
Speaker 1: nobody be concerned about me. Yeah. I don't think they

977
00:53:43,520 --> 00:53:45,359
Speaker 1: licensed I could be wrong in this, but I don't

978
00:53:45,360 --> 00:53:47,520
Speaker 1: think they licensed any music for this. I think all

979
00:53:47,560 --> 00:53:49,960
Speaker 1: the rock songs and hit songs that we hear in

980
00:53:50,000 --> 00:53:55,320
Speaker 1: this are composed by Robert Folk. Okay, that would make sense.

981
00:53:55,360 --> 00:53:57,880
Speaker 1: They're they're original for the movie. I mean, this just

982
00:53:57,960 --> 00:53:59,919
Speaker 1: felt like somebody was like, can you create a track

983
00:54:00,040 --> 00:54:03,120
Speaker 1: that sounds like Kenny? I mean, missed opportunity to not

984
00:54:03,280 --> 00:54:05,640
Speaker 1: get wings Houser to sing any of them. But yeah,

985
00:54:05,840 --> 00:54:08,839
Speaker 1: they're enough. But as the portal opens up, she and

986
00:54:08,920 --> 00:54:10,920
Speaker 1: the police that are in pursuit of her all end

987
00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:14,120
Speaker 1: up accidentally driving through the dimensional portal, which on the

988
00:54:14,280 --> 00:54:17,440
Speaker 1: l A side is just the dead end of an alleyway.

989
00:54:17,480 --> 00:54:20,520
Speaker 1: It's just a wall. So she and the cops were

990
00:54:20,520 --> 00:54:22,800
Speaker 1: planning on just driving straight into a wall, except for

991
00:54:23,239 --> 00:54:26,840
Speaker 1: going through it, and of course they're immediately confronted with Arklan.

992
00:54:27,080 --> 00:54:30,000
Speaker 1: Jackie drives away into the desert, but Arclon scares the

993
00:54:30,040 --> 00:54:32,799
Speaker 1: cops into jumping back through the portal and leaving their

994
00:54:32,800 --> 00:54:35,480
Speaker 1: police interceptors behind. And this is where we get the

995
00:54:35,480 --> 00:54:37,880
Speaker 1: scene where where Lerona has to explain to him that

996
00:54:37,920 --> 00:54:43,000
Speaker 1: it's pronounced car, not dar. But so Jackie drives miles

997
00:54:43,000 --> 00:54:46,040
Speaker 1: and miles out into the flat, roadless desert in the dark,

998
00:54:46,280 --> 00:54:48,799
Speaker 1: her car runs out of gas and then she just

999
00:54:48,880 --> 00:54:53,319
Speaker 1: gets out and walks okay and out here she ends

1000
00:54:53,360 --> 00:54:55,600
Speaker 1: up meeting up with Dar, the Beastmaster. I think she

1001
00:54:55,840 --> 00:54:58,840
Speaker 1: is woken up because the tiger is licking her hand,

1002
00:55:00,120 --> 00:55:02,200
Speaker 1: and uh, it's it's one of those weird things. I

1003
00:55:02,200 --> 00:55:04,919
Speaker 1: feel like there are dynamics like this in other sort

1004
00:55:04,920 --> 00:55:09,080
Speaker 1: of world's colliding movies where the character just doesn't seem

1005
00:55:09,120 --> 00:55:12,200
Speaker 1: to realize they are in an alternate world full of magic,

1006
00:55:12,280 --> 00:55:14,479
Speaker 1: even though it should be obvious. She keeps saying things

1007
00:55:14,520 --> 00:55:17,319
Speaker 1: like does Triple A have service out here? And then

1008
00:55:17,400 --> 00:55:21,040
Speaker 1: she meets Dar. She's like, are you a biker or something? Oh?

1009
00:55:21,080 --> 00:55:23,879
Speaker 1: Another one was you know, she's like, my daddy will

1010
00:55:23,880 --> 00:55:25,520
Speaker 1: pay you to get me back to l A or

1011
00:55:25,520 --> 00:55:28,280
Speaker 1: even it, just get me to A seven eleven and

1012
00:55:28,360 --> 00:55:33,279
Speaker 1: he's like seven eleven. But then he says, okay, you

1013
00:55:33,360 --> 00:55:35,880
Speaker 1: may join me on my journey westward. Perhaps there you

1014
00:55:35,880 --> 00:55:38,520
Speaker 1: will find the land you seek. So of course they're

1015
00:55:38,520 --> 00:55:41,719
Speaker 1: going to become fast friends, because this is it's not

1016
00:55:41,760 --> 00:55:44,440
Speaker 1: exactly a buddy cop movie because it's not cops, but

1017
00:55:44,520 --> 00:55:48,080
Speaker 1: it's like a buddy Barbarian movie. It's time buddies. Oh

1018
00:55:48,160 --> 00:55:49,920
Speaker 1: and another thing I thought was funny here is so

1019
00:55:49,960 --> 00:55:52,879
Speaker 1: she gets acquainted to Dar and his animals and she's

1020
00:55:52,920 --> 00:55:56,279
Speaker 1: like all impressed by by the relationship he has with

1021
00:55:56,320 --> 00:55:58,440
Speaker 1: all the animals. So she's freaked out by the tiger,

1022
00:55:58,840 --> 00:56:01,720
Speaker 1: and she's grossed out by the ferrets, calling them rats.

1023
00:56:01,920 --> 00:56:04,960
Speaker 1: But I was confused by this because ferrets are not

1024
00:56:05,080 --> 00:56:08,120
Speaker 1: a mythical animal. There are ferrets back on Earth. I

1025
00:56:08,120 --> 00:56:10,480
Speaker 1: guess you just never seen them before. Yeah. So I

1026
00:56:10,600 --> 00:56:12,719
Speaker 1: like how some people grow up thinking unicorns are real

1027
00:56:12,800 --> 00:56:14,640
Speaker 1: and then you know, they're disappointed to find out it's

1028
00:56:14,680 --> 00:56:16,759
Speaker 1: not the case. Some people find out that ferrets are

1029
00:56:16,800 --> 00:56:20,080
Speaker 1: real and it's I guess in a magical time. Oh yeah, yeah.

1030
00:56:20,200 --> 00:56:22,840
Speaker 1: So they end up scampering around all over the desert.

1031
00:56:23,200 --> 00:56:25,920
Speaker 1: Dar shows her how to eat roots to survive and

1032
00:56:25,960 --> 00:56:28,759
Speaker 1: she says, no thanks, I'll stick with the salad bar

1033
00:56:29,880 --> 00:56:32,320
Speaker 1: and uh. And then there's a very weird and funny

1034
00:56:32,360 --> 00:56:36,920
Speaker 1: scene where Dar lets Jackie hold his ferrets. Yeah, this

1035
00:56:36,960 --> 00:56:40,200
Speaker 1: is one of those great creepy animal guy sequences. Um well.

1036
00:56:40,200 --> 00:56:42,839
Speaker 1: One thing that is kind of neat about their relationship is,

1037
00:56:43,040 --> 00:56:45,520
Speaker 1: unless I'm forgetting something, they never set up any kind

1038
00:56:45,520 --> 00:56:50,200
Speaker 1: of like romantic connection between these two. Um not really.

1039
00:56:50,239 --> 00:56:52,200
Speaker 1: I think there is a there is a brief and

1040
00:56:52,360 --> 00:56:54,719
Speaker 1: very chaste kiss at the end, she just kind of

1041
00:56:54,719 --> 00:56:57,680
Speaker 1: like pecks him on the face. But yeah, otherwise it's

1042
00:56:57,719 --> 00:57:00,920
Speaker 1: just portrayed as a friendship. But anyway, so you know,

1043
00:57:00,960 --> 00:57:04,240
Speaker 1: they wander around making friends. But eventually Beastmaster and Jackie

1044
00:57:04,320 --> 00:57:08,520
Speaker 1: are attacked by Arclon's goons and they disabled darr with

1045
00:57:08,600 --> 00:57:11,560
Speaker 1: some kind of neon yellow little like gas bomb thing,

1046
00:57:11,640 --> 00:57:15,000
Speaker 1: and then they kidnap her, basically so that Lurana and

1047
00:57:15,120 --> 00:57:18,000
Speaker 1: Arklon can use her as a guide to the world

1048
00:57:18,040 --> 00:57:21,200
Speaker 1: of l A to show them where the supposed neutron

1049
00:57:21,280 --> 00:57:25,000
Speaker 1: detonator is. And in this scene, she's still doing her

1050
00:57:25,040 --> 00:57:28,080
Speaker 1: like riffing. She's like, what am I in the Twilight Zone?

1051
00:57:28,560 --> 00:57:31,400
Speaker 1: And she keeps calling Arclon leather Face, which I thought

1052
00:57:31,440 --> 00:57:33,480
Speaker 1: was pretty good. Yeah, there's another point where I think,

1053
00:57:33,520 --> 00:57:35,520
Speaker 1: like a random punk on the street calls him Darth

1054
00:57:35,600 --> 00:57:41,280
Speaker 1: Vader and uh, and he's a quote he's again wing's

1055
00:57:41,280 --> 00:57:43,160
Speaker 1: house or just playing the character very straight, and it's

1056
00:57:43,240 --> 00:57:45,800
Speaker 1: just you know, confused or bewildered or you know, slightly

1057
00:57:45,840 --> 00:57:49,880
Speaker 1: angered by all of this, but never really gets the jokes. Yeah,

1058
00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:53,280
Speaker 1: at one point he's like, leather Face, what do you mean?

1059
00:57:54,840 --> 00:57:57,240
Speaker 1: But of course they go through the portal of time,

1060
00:57:57,280 --> 00:57:59,640
Speaker 1: which deposits them in a dead end alleyway, and then

1061
00:57:59,720 --> 00:58:02,960
Speaker 1: Dar chases them, and arc Lawn ends up trapping Dar

1062
00:58:03,080 --> 00:58:05,200
Speaker 1: in the alley way by blowing up a gas pipe

1063
00:58:05,240 --> 00:58:08,080
Speaker 1: that sends a jet of fire screaming across the width

1064
00:58:08,080 --> 00:58:09,840
Speaker 1: of the alley. And I was like, Oh, that's funny,

1065
00:58:09,920 --> 00:58:13,120
Speaker 1: because I feel like that is a common method used

1066
00:58:13,120 --> 00:58:15,560
Speaker 1: to prevent your progress in a certain direction in a

1067
00:58:15,680 --> 00:58:19,280
Speaker 1: video game. You need to go some before. Oh sorry,

1068
00:58:19,280 --> 00:58:21,200
Speaker 1: there's a jettifier here. You gotta go find a way

1069
00:58:21,200 --> 00:58:25,120
Speaker 1: to turn it off, get the get the key card access,

1070
00:58:25,360 --> 00:58:26,920
Speaker 1: and you always have to shut it off yourself. You

1071
00:58:26,960 --> 00:58:29,080
Speaker 1: can't just like call the gas company, which would be

1072
00:58:29,200 --> 00:58:32,120
Speaker 1: the thing to do, all right. Well, but so eventually

1073
00:58:32,120 --> 00:58:35,240
Speaker 1: the police show up in this uh in in the

1074
00:58:35,280 --> 00:58:37,840
Speaker 1: alley way, and so here's Dar with his animals, and

1075
00:58:37,840 --> 00:58:40,600
Speaker 1: we meet Lieutenant Cobraly again played by James Avery of

1076
00:58:40,800 --> 00:58:44,240
Speaker 1: Fresh Prince of bel Air and uh. He again plays

1077
00:58:44,240 --> 00:58:48,200
Speaker 1: this weary, no nonsense police commander who has this creepy

1078
00:58:48,240 --> 00:58:52,600
Speaker 1: little underling in a bow tie. And they in a

1079
00:58:52,720 --> 00:58:55,920
Speaker 1: very sad but they tranquilize Rude the tiger. They shoot

1080
00:58:55,960 --> 00:58:57,920
Speaker 1: him with a tranquilizer dart and he passes out. And

1081
00:58:58,000 --> 00:59:00,760
Speaker 1: I'm sure that's very traumatic for Dar because Dar doesn't

1082
00:59:00,800 --> 00:59:03,560
Speaker 1: know about tranquilizer darts. He probably thinks his loyal tiger

1083
00:59:03,600 --> 00:59:07,120
Speaker 1: friend has been killed but never feared Ru will be back.

1084
00:59:07,200 --> 00:59:10,360
Speaker 1: Later in the movie, Uh Darr himself gets tazed and

1085
00:59:10,440 --> 00:59:13,800
Speaker 1: taken to the police station, and then next up is

1086
00:59:14,160 --> 00:59:16,360
Speaker 1: I would say a real stand out one of the

1087
00:59:16,360 --> 00:59:21,120
Speaker 1: most memorable sequences of the film, the clothes shopping scene. So,

1088
00:59:21,400 --> 00:59:23,720
Speaker 1: thinking back on it, I know it's not really this

1089
00:59:23,760 --> 00:59:26,400
Speaker 1: way if you measure it, but my general impression in

1090
00:59:26,480 --> 00:59:31,240
Speaker 1: retrospect was that the makeover clothes shopping scene where our

1091
00:59:31,320 --> 00:59:34,600
Speaker 1: clan le Rona and uh and and carry we we're

1092
00:59:34,720 --> 00:59:37,880
Speaker 1: go into the fashion store, takes up approximately the middle

1093
00:59:38,000 --> 00:59:42,040
Speaker 1: third of the movie. Yeah, it goes on for quite

1094
00:59:42,080 --> 00:59:45,080
Speaker 1: a while. We keep jumping back to it. Um it's

1095
00:59:45,400 --> 00:59:47,600
Speaker 1: there's a lot of shopping to be done here. Yeah,

1096
00:59:47,680 --> 00:59:50,160
Speaker 1: and so they go into a store. I think learn

1097
00:59:50,360 --> 00:59:52,360
Speaker 1: is like, we need we need clothes so we can

1098
00:59:52,400 --> 00:59:55,200
Speaker 1: fit into the modern world. And our clan is of

1099
00:59:55,240 --> 00:59:57,920
Speaker 1: course just being violent and menacing in the men's section,

1100
00:59:58,000 --> 01:00:00,920
Speaker 1: but Lerona is clearly interested in srying some things on

1101
01:00:02,520 --> 01:00:04,720
Speaker 1: and then it finds it's like a smashing blue dress

1102
01:00:04,840 --> 01:00:08,040
Speaker 1: that she try. Yeah, yeah, she's clue, she's all about fashion,

1103
01:00:08,120 --> 01:00:11,960
Speaker 1: and you know, she looks great. But also it's funny

1104
01:00:11,960 --> 01:00:15,360
Speaker 1: because Jackie escapes while Arklon is literally trying on clothes.

1105
01:00:15,440 --> 01:00:17,560
Speaker 1: He like gets into the fitting room and she's just

1106
01:00:17,640 --> 01:00:19,840
Speaker 1: like okay out of here and runs out the door.

1107
01:00:20,240 --> 01:00:23,000
Speaker 1: And then when Arklon comes out and discovers she has left,

1108
01:00:23,040 --> 01:00:25,600
Speaker 1: he gets so mad and he destroys the store with

1109
01:00:25,640 --> 01:00:29,640
Speaker 1: his key of mcgogue. Um. Meanwhile, Lerona runs out on

1110
01:00:29,720 --> 01:00:32,360
Speaker 1: her own in a fabulous new outfit which I don't

1111
01:00:32,400 --> 01:00:35,360
Speaker 1: think she paid for. Oh yeah, I don't think so either.

1112
01:00:35,800 --> 01:00:38,680
Speaker 1: And I guess Arklon makes it out when this green

1113
01:00:39,280 --> 01:00:41,960
Speaker 1: jacket or overcoat that he tries on, like he he

1114
01:00:42,160 --> 01:00:44,240
Speaker 1: only tries on the one thing, but he he does

1115
01:00:44,280 --> 01:00:46,440
Speaker 1: seem taken with it. There's this great scene with him

1116
01:00:46,520 --> 01:00:48,720
Speaker 1: kind of uh you know, posing in front of the

1117
01:00:48,760 --> 01:00:53,640
Speaker 1: mirror and uh, it's uh, it's a nice moment where

1118
01:00:53,640 --> 01:00:55,760
Speaker 1: one of the many moments I guess we're our clan

1119
01:00:55,920 --> 01:00:59,240
Speaker 1: comes off of this as a dufus despite Wing's house

1120
01:00:59,320 --> 01:01:03,360
Speaker 1: or playing the role very straight. I like that moment.

1121
01:01:03,680 --> 01:01:07,280
Speaker 1: This looks wonderful on me. I look so terrifying in

1122
01:01:07,320 --> 01:01:12,240
Speaker 1: this green coat. But he's this color. I've never seen

1123
01:01:12,280 --> 01:01:15,720
Speaker 1: it in my That's true. In my world, we only

1124
01:01:15,760 --> 01:01:20,160
Speaker 1: have orange clothes. Uh No, he he is wearing this

1125
01:01:20,240 --> 01:01:23,600
Speaker 1: green jacket and to be honest, doesn't look that great

1126
01:01:23,640 --> 01:01:25,560
Speaker 1: on him. It's it's kind of a baggy fit. It

1127
01:01:25,640 --> 01:01:27,960
Speaker 1: just doesn't look right. He did he did no fashion

1128
01:01:28,040 --> 01:01:31,439
Speaker 1: He does no fashion job. There's also an interrogation scene,

1129
01:01:31,440 --> 01:01:33,720
Speaker 1: so you got back to Dar in the police station

1130
01:01:34,240 --> 01:01:37,280
Speaker 1: and uh, Lieutenant co really is asking him all these questions.

1131
01:01:37,360 --> 01:01:41,360
Speaker 1: But uh, in a true mob movie fashion, Dar keeps

1132
01:01:41,360 --> 01:01:44,040
Speaker 1: his mouth shut. He says nothing. It's like one of

1133
01:01:44,040 --> 01:01:46,800
Speaker 1: those other scenes where like a real hard and criminals like, yeah,

1134
01:01:46,880 --> 01:01:50,840
Speaker 1: I don't snitch, I don't talk to cops, but I

1135
01:01:50,840 --> 01:01:53,400
Speaker 1: don't understand like where he gets this attitude, Like what

1136
01:01:53,400 --> 01:01:56,280
Speaker 1: what Like he's just it's it's like we're in that movie,

1137
01:01:56,280 --> 01:01:59,040
Speaker 1: but there's no reason for for the beast Master to

1138
01:01:59,040 --> 01:02:01,160
Speaker 1: be that kind of hard and like what what interactions

1139
01:02:01,160 --> 01:02:04,600
Speaker 1: with the police is he having back in his home dimension? Yeah?

1140
01:02:04,640 --> 01:02:06,560
Speaker 1: And also I mean he's lucky enough that they went

1141
01:02:06,600 --> 01:02:09,760
Speaker 1: to another dimension where people also speak English, so every

1142
01:02:09,840 --> 01:02:13,240
Speaker 1: everybody understands each other. Why not just explain things to them?

1143
01:02:14,160 --> 01:02:16,520
Speaker 1: Try your luck. It would have been funny if he's

1144
01:02:16,600 --> 01:02:22,760
Speaker 1: just like lawyer, I want the demand right of counsel. Yeah,

1145
01:02:22,760 --> 01:02:25,240
Speaker 1: and they bring a lawyer from the fantasy world. It's

1146
01:02:25,280 --> 01:02:29,520
Speaker 1: like a guy in a druid robe, like David Warner. Oh,

1147
01:02:29,560 --> 01:02:31,560
Speaker 1: it's one of the brain guys from the first scene.

1148
01:02:33,160 --> 01:02:35,560
Speaker 1: But he ends up escaping the police station. He gets

1149
01:02:35,600 --> 01:02:38,040
Speaker 1: into Jackie's car because she just happens to pull up

1150
01:02:38,040 --> 01:02:40,760
Speaker 1: outside right when he's leaving. And then here for a while,

1151
01:02:40,800 --> 01:02:42,680
Speaker 1: we get a big stretch of the movie where it

1152
01:02:42,800 --> 01:02:45,760
Speaker 1: just turns into Jackie and Dar doing fish out of

1153
01:02:45,800 --> 01:02:49,919
Speaker 1: time gags. So we get Dar discovers rock and roll.

1154
01:02:50,000 --> 01:02:52,480
Speaker 1: He says it's like an earthquake. He's kind of afraid

1155
01:02:52,520 --> 01:02:54,080
Speaker 1: of it at first, but then I think he kind

1156
01:02:54,080 --> 01:02:56,840
Speaker 1: of likes it. Yeah, that's how it goes. Yeah, and

1157
01:02:56,880 --> 01:03:01,040
Speaker 1: then Dar discovers fancy food. Jackie takes him back to

1158
01:03:01,120 --> 01:03:04,320
Speaker 1: her mansion where they meet where they meet her her

1159
01:03:04,320 --> 01:03:07,480
Speaker 1: snooty butler, and the butler gives them a fancy food

1160
01:03:07,480 --> 01:03:09,720
Speaker 1: and Door is like, oh, it is delicious, but is

1161
01:03:09,760 --> 01:03:14,440
Speaker 1: it to eat or to look upon. Uh. Then you

1162
01:03:14,480 --> 01:03:18,840
Speaker 1: also get Dar discovers daytime TV. Dar learns about cussing.

1163
01:03:19,240 --> 01:03:22,320
Speaker 1: It's it's good stuff. You know. This does remind me

1164
01:03:22,360 --> 01:03:25,160
Speaker 1: briefly another almost literal fish out of Water film. There

1165
01:03:25,200 --> 01:03:27,120
Speaker 1: was a lot of fun I haven't seen it and forever,

1166
01:03:27,200 --> 01:03:32,720
Speaker 1: but I remember enjoying romantic comedy Splash, in which Darryl

1167
01:03:32,720 --> 01:03:36,880
Speaker 1: Hannah plays a mermaid opposite um Tom Hanks. I've never

1168
01:03:36,880 --> 01:03:39,480
Speaker 1: seen it. Oh, it's just like fun stuff where like

1169
01:03:39,560 --> 01:03:41,680
Speaker 1: she's literally a mermaid who's lost your legs, you know,

1170
01:03:41,840 --> 01:03:45,480
Speaker 1: very much lost her her fin her fish parts, rather

1171
01:03:45,560 --> 01:03:47,480
Speaker 1: than you know, has now his legs. But there's a

1172
01:03:47,480 --> 01:03:50,200
Speaker 1: scene where he takes her to a fancy restaurant. She

1173
01:03:50,320 --> 01:03:56,520
Speaker 1: orders like a lobster and she starts eating at whole. Great. Great,

1174
01:03:56,760 --> 01:03:59,520
Speaker 1: it's pretty good. Oh. I like how Door invites you know,

1175
01:03:59,560 --> 01:04:01,800
Speaker 1: he's got his ferrets and he invites the eagle in,

1176
01:04:01,960 --> 01:04:06,560
Speaker 1: and there there's a great eagle versus Butler scene. But

1177
01:04:06,600 --> 01:04:09,800
Speaker 1: eventually they end up watching TV and they're watching the

1178
01:04:09,880 --> 01:04:12,280
Speaker 1: news and there I think there's something on the news

1179
01:04:12,360 --> 01:04:15,360
Speaker 1: about like somebody's trying to steal a neutron detonator. And

1180
01:04:15,400 --> 01:04:17,919
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, it's Arklan, we gotta go get him.

1181
01:04:18,000 --> 01:04:21,200
Speaker 1: So the major scenes remaining are there's there's a big

1182
01:04:21,280 --> 01:04:24,640
Speaker 1: heist scene with the neutron detonator with Arklon dressing up

1183
01:04:24,680 --> 01:04:27,640
Speaker 1: as a military guy to get into a secret base,

1184
01:04:28,120 --> 01:04:30,560
Speaker 1: and nobody makes note of the fact that he's got

1185
01:04:30,600 --> 01:04:34,400
Speaker 1: a Phantom of the Opera mask on under his general's hat. Right. Oh,

1186
01:04:34,400 --> 01:04:36,320
Speaker 1: and this was also when he steals the clothing for

1187
01:04:36,440 --> 01:04:38,840
Speaker 1: the from the general. He also does some sort of

1188
01:04:38,840 --> 01:04:42,600
Speaker 1: telepathic mind meld where he steals all of his memories

1189
01:04:43,080 --> 01:04:45,160
Speaker 1: so that he can better move around in this world.

1190
01:04:45,400 --> 01:04:48,160
Speaker 1: And it's one of these um like third act magic powers,

1191
01:04:48,320 --> 01:04:50,880
Speaker 1: where like where was his magic power earlier when you

1192
01:04:50,920 --> 01:04:52,840
Speaker 1: first arrived in l A And we're acting like a

1193
01:04:53,200 --> 01:04:55,400
Speaker 1: total du FEUs the whole time, like maybe you should

1194
01:04:55,440 --> 01:04:58,120
Speaker 1: have used that then. And then also I was overthinking

1195
01:04:58,120 --> 01:05:01,480
Speaker 1: and partially because I'm watching h excellent television show Severed

1196
01:05:01,560 --> 01:05:04,000
Speaker 1: right now. It made me think, well, if you absorb

1197
01:05:04,200 --> 01:05:07,120
Speaker 1: every this guy's memories, Like, how does that work? Are

1198
01:05:07,160 --> 01:05:10,439
Speaker 1: those memories consolidated with your memories? Are you a different person? Down?

1199
01:05:10,440 --> 01:05:12,600
Speaker 1: Are now? Arc line? You know, it doesn't seem to

1200
01:05:12,600 --> 01:05:14,720
Speaker 1: be the case. It seems like these new memories are

1201
01:05:15,040 --> 01:05:20,720
Speaker 1: compartmentalized somewhere, downloaded and kept in a different file folder. Yeah,

1202
01:05:21,040 --> 01:05:22,880
Speaker 1: that seems to be how it works. Oh and I

1203
01:05:23,240 --> 01:05:28,400
Speaker 1: so Wingshauser and Sarah Douglas meet back up in the

1204
01:05:28,840 --> 01:05:31,720
Speaker 1: in the military base because she's there also in disguise.

1205
01:05:31,760 --> 01:05:34,200
Speaker 1: I guess to help him, But then there's a rift

1206
01:05:34,240 --> 01:05:37,120
Speaker 1: because he uses his new power again on her, Like

1207
01:05:37,160 --> 01:05:40,000
Speaker 1: when they're about to escape with the thing, he like

1208
01:05:40,080 --> 01:05:42,680
Speaker 1: grabs her head and he's like, oh, you were gonna

1209
01:05:42,760 --> 01:05:45,520
Speaker 1: kill me and and take over after after we got back,

1210
01:05:45,680 --> 01:05:48,240
Speaker 1: So uh, I to to heck with you, and he

1211
01:05:48,320 --> 01:05:50,600
Speaker 1: throws her out of the jeep and drives off by himself.

1212
01:05:50,960 --> 01:05:53,640
Speaker 1: And here's her sort of hero turn, and she turns

1213
01:05:53,680 --> 01:05:57,200
Speaker 1: from the nominal villain into a nominal ally. She she

1214
01:05:57,320 --> 01:05:59,840
Speaker 1: sort of hooks up with dar and Jackie and his

1215
01:06:00,080 --> 01:06:04,040
Speaker 1: like we've got to stop him. So, because the neutron

1216
01:06:04,080 --> 01:06:07,680
Speaker 1: detonator has been taken, the police end up recruiting this

1217
01:06:07,720 --> 01:06:10,200
Speaker 1: guy who I was just calling the bluey guy. What

1218
01:06:10,240 --> 01:06:13,240
Speaker 1: was the steel He's like a retired general or something,

1219
01:06:13,240 --> 01:06:16,000
Speaker 1: but he knows how this device works, a device which

1220
01:06:16,640 --> 01:06:19,440
Speaker 1: which is now taking down because you know, our clan

1221
01:06:19,520 --> 01:06:21,600
Speaker 1: doesn't know how this works. It is going to explode

1222
01:06:21,600 --> 01:06:24,160
Speaker 1: in like an hour and then then in half an hour,

1223
01:06:24,240 --> 01:06:26,600
Speaker 1: and then it's going to apparently destroy the entire world.

1224
01:06:27,480 --> 01:06:30,040
Speaker 1: And this guy is our our only hope at actually,

1225
01:06:30,080 --> 01:06:32,640
Speaker 1: because you know, beast Master can stop ar clon, but

1226
01:06:32,720 --> 01:06:35,520
Speaker 1: still somebody needs to turn this device off. But so

1227
01:06:35,600 --> 01:06:38,360
Speaker 1: it's this guy who just sits around saying like blue

1228
01:06:41,000 --> 01:06:43,520
Speaker 1: but hey, if you're going to guess they go to

1229
01:06:43,680 --> 01:06:46,000
Speaker 1: l A and the beast Master has to have a

1230
01:06:46,040 --> 01:06:48,600
Speaker 1: final showdown with the villain of the film. Is gonna

1231
01:06:48,600 --> 01:06:51,040
Speaker 1: be somewhere in l A. Where would you guess it

1232
01:06:51,080 --> 01:06:55,080
Speaker 1: would be in l A? Oh? Yeah, you know, there's

1233
01:06:55,120 --> 01:06:57,520
Speaker 1: so many great places that it could have been that

1234
01:06:57,560 --> 01:07:01,080
Speaker 1: they probably couldn't have gotten the film rights, uh you know,

1235
01:07:01,120 --> 01:07:05,320
Speaker 1: location rights too, but they decided to go, like, I

1236
01:07:05,320 --> 01:07:07,760
Speaker 1: don't know, the tar pits would have been nice, okay,

1237
01:07:08,440 --> 01:07:10,600
Speaker 1: But um, I feel like the choice they went with

1238
01:07:10,720 --> 01:07:13,880
Speaker 1: this kind of obvious because they go to the zoo, right,

1239
01:07:13,960 --> 01:07:16,880
Speaker 1: I thought it would be maybe the Scientology Celebrity Center

1240
01:07:16,920 --> 01:07:21,760
Speaker 1: that instead it is it is the zoo, and they

1241
01:07:21,760 --> 01:07:24,160
Speaker 1: really they really played for laughs though, Oh my god,

1242
01:07:24,280 --> 01:07:27,880
Speaker 1: this zoo showdown. H Like you made me think back

1243
01:07:27,880 --> 01:07:30,240
Speaker 1: to Masters of the Universe, where we have all of

1244
01:07:30,280 --> 01:07:33,840
Speaker 1: our mid movie fish shout of time shenanigans, like oh

1245
01:07:33,960 --> 01:07:36,840
Speaker 1: what are what is? What is this food on these sticks?

1246
01:07:37,440 --> 01:07:39,680
Speaker 1: You know that that wonderful scene. But then at the

1247
01:07:39,800 --> 01:07:43,120
Speaker 1: end of it we get this like traumatics, not traumatic dramatic.

1248
01:07:43,200 --> 01:07:45,080
Speaker 1: It's not really traumatic, I guess unless you're a big

1249
01:07:45,080 --> 01:07:48,960
Speaker 1: Skeletor fan. Um. This is this this wonderful showdown between

1250
01:07:49,080 --> 01:07:52,840
Speaker 1: he Man and Skeletor where Skeletor becomes like a golden god.

1251
01:07:53,120 --> 01:07:55,520
Speaker 1: And it's really splendid and like ultimately kind of like

1252
01:07:55,600 --> 01:07:59,800
Speaker 1: high fantasy and epic and and played mostly seriously. Here

1253
01:07:59,840 --> 01:08:04,120
Speaker 1: the it is a battle between beast Master and arclon

1254
01:08:04,720 --> 01:08:08,240
Speaker 1: Um whilst the animals watch on and hoot, whilst an

1255
01:08:08,240 --> 01:08:13,959
Speaker 1: audio track is playing describing a a spiny ant eater

1256
01:08:14,040 --> 01:08:16,880
Speaker 1: or something or hedgehog and uh and a lion. It's

1257
01:08:16,920 --> 01:08:21,080
Speaker 1: just all played for for goofiness, and it's very goofy. Yeah,

1258
01:08:21,120 --> 01:08:23,519
Speaker 1: they have a sword fight. It's like the ground is

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01:08:23,600 --> 01:08:26,000
Speaker 1: cracking and full of fire, like there's a you know,

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Speaker 1: volcanic earthquake underneath them. Cut to a chimpanzee clapping and laughing. Yes.

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Speaker 1: But then finally and the oh, there's so many moments

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01:08:35,760 --> 01:08:37,639
Speaker 1: where like, you know, you've got to have the thing

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01:08:37,760 --> 01:08:41,160
Speaker 1: where the hero gets the better of the villain or

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01:08:41,200 --> 01:08:44,160
Speaker 1: disarms them or something, and then they're like, you can

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01:08:44,200 --> 01:08:46,719
Speaker 1: still live, and the villain is like, no, I must

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Speaker 1: do evil and die, and so that happens, I think,

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Speaker 1: I think literally, Wingshauser says, I hate peace. Yeah, yeah,

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01:08:57,680 --> 01:09:01,240
Speaker 1: there's a there's a nut clutch in there. Oh yeah, yeah,

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01:09:01,320 --> 01:09:04,760
Speaker 1: that's good. And then finally Dar ends up throwing Wingshauser

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Speaker 1: into the crack in the earth, and as he's plunging

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01:09:07,040 --> 01:09:10,439
Speaker 1: down into the fire, he just yells, the world is mine. Yeah.

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01:09:10,479 --> 01:09:13,559
Speaker 1: He's like, I am winning so hard as he falls

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01:09:13,600 --> 01:09:15,519
Speaker 1: to his flaming death, which I believe is the same

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01:09:15,560 --> 01:09:18,960
Speaker 1: way Ripped Horns villain died in the first film, falling

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01:09:18,960 --> 01:09:23,320
Speaker 1: into a sacrificial fire. So you know, the they defeat that,

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01:09:23,400 --> 01:09:25,320
Speaker 1: they get the kablue and the guy in there to

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01:09:25,439 --> 01:09:28,240
Speaker 1: disarm the neutron detonator, and then uh, and then we

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01:09:28,280 --> 01:09:31,200
Speaker 1: get to say our emotional goodbyes between Darr and Jackie,

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01:09:31,200 --> 01:09:33,200
Speaker 1: because of course, you know, she must stay in her

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01:09:33,320 --> 01:09:36,960
Speaker 1: world and he must return to his But Dar decides,

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01:09:37,000 --> 01:09:39,519
Speaker 1: you know what, Jackie and my ferrets, they have become

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01:09:39,560 --> 01:09:41,800
Speaker 1: such good friends. I'm gonna let the ferrets stay. So

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01:09:41,920 --> 01:09:46,760
Speaker 1: Kodo and Podo the ferrets are West Coast ferrets now. Oh,

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01:09:46,840 --> 01:09:48,760
Speaker 1: and then there's a great stinger at the end, which

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01:09:48,800 --> 01:09:53,240
Speaker 1: is when when Dar goes back to his own universe,

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01:09:53,600 --> 01:09:57,000
Speaker 1: Jackie trance red sports car, her Porsche is sitting in

1287
01:09:57,040 --> 01:09:59,200
Speaker 1: the desert still and now it does an object of

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01:09:59,240 --> 01:10:02,880
Speaker 1: pilgrimage the people of the beast Master world. Yeah, and

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01:10:02,880 --> 01:10:05,519
Speaker 1: this is this is where Berryman shows up. Is one

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01:10:05,520 --> 01:10:07,600
Speaker 1: of the like the lead pilgrim that's talking. It's like,

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01:10:07,680 --> 01:10:10,280
Speaker 1: come see this wondrous device that was left by the

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01:10:10,320 --> 01:10:12,880
Speaker 1: gods in the desert. We all want to know how

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01:10:12,920 --> 01:10:15,920
Speaker 1: it works. Oh and then the desert Pilgrims they learn

1294
01:10:16,000 --> 01:10:18,720
Speaker 1: how to dance after they activate the stereo system and

1295
01:10:18,760 --> 01:10:20,880
Speaker 1: it starts playing hair metal and you see them kind

1296
01:10:20,880 --> 01:10:27,000
Speaker 1: of like swaying. Yeah. Open, Wait, one last question I

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01:10:27,040 --> 01:10:28,760
Speaker 1: have about the plot. Do we ever find out what

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01:10:28,800 --> 01:10:31,679
Speaker 1: happens to Lurana at the end. I don't remember now

1299
01:10:32,000 --> 01:10:33,439
Speaker 1: that that I guess the man. I don't know if

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01:10:33,439 --> 01:10:35,559
Speaker 1: the scene was cut or what. But I don't think

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01:10:35,560 --> 01:10:38,640
Speaker 1: she died or anything. Sometimes you see that where the

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01:10:38,760 --> 01:10:41,360
Speaker 1: villain or the you know, a villainous character has a

1303
01:10:41,360 --> 01:10:44,040
Speaker 1: hero turn, but they still have to pay the price

1304
01:10:44,560 --> 01:10:47,240
Speaker 1: for their their misdeeds. But I think she just vanishes.

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01:10:47,280 --> 01:10:49,559
Speaker 1: We don't see what happens to her. She's just living

1306
01:10:49,600 --> 01:10:52,640
Speaker 1: on in l a. Yeah, and in more power to her.

1307
01:10:52,680 --> 01:10:56,280
Speaker 1: She'll fit right in. But the final moment is also

1308
01:10:56,680 --> 01:10:58,000
Speaker 1: a lot of fun. I don't know if you've caught

1309
01:10:58,040 --> 01:11:01,800
Speaker 1: all the details of this, but the Eagle cries and

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01:11:01,920 --> 01:11:05,960
Speaker 1: Dar must now run off into the sun set uh

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01:11:06,479 --> 01:11:09,040
Speaker 1: in a wonderful sunset in the in the background here

1312
01:11:09,640 --> 01:11:11,880
Speaker 1: with his tiger beside him, you know, to fight another

1313
01:11:11,960 --> 01:11:14,400
Speaker 1: day and carry on adventures and so forth. But it

1314
01:11:14,479 --> 01:11:17,160
Speaker 1: quickly becomes clear even his credits are beginning to roll

1315
01:11:17,520 --> 01:11:20,639
Speaker 1: that this, uh, this sunset is of course Matt painting,

1316
01:11:21,160 --> 01:11:24,560
Speaker 1: and and the tiger moves up a little bit, but

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01:11:24,600 --> 01:11:26,920
Speaker 1: then stops and kind of looks around and then walks

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01:11:26,920 --> 01:11:32,040
Speaker 1: off screen. Meanwhile, um Mark Singer in The Beast master

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01:11:32,080 --> 01:11:35,040
Speaker 1: Guard has run up as close as he can and

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01:11:35,200 --> 01:11:38,680
Speaker 1: is basically just running in place for I guess the

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01:11:38,760 --> 01:11:41,320
Speaker 1: duration of the credits there, um, you know, kind of

1322
01:11:41,360 --> 01:11:43,120
Speaker 1: moving back and forth, but there's nowhere else for him

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01:11:43,120 --> 01:11:46,080
Speaker 1: to run. He's just running in place. Wow, I did

1324
01:11:46,120 --> 01:11:49,639
Speaker 1: not catch That's it's worth going back and watching. Okay,

1325
01:11:49,680 --> 01:11:51,519
Speaker 1: So I'd say in the end about beast Smester two,

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01:11:51,960 --> 01:11:56,120
Speaker 1: not a great film overall, but but wings Houser is fun,

1327
01:11:56,479 --> 01:12:00,599
Speaker 1: Sarah Douglas is transcendent, the ferrets are very cute, and

1328
01:12:00,720 --> 01:12:03,800
Speaker 1: uh and this was a really fun episode of Weird House. Yeah. Yeah,

1329
01:12:03,800 --> 01:12:05,479
Speaker 1: this one was a lot of fun. I'll you know,

1330
01:12:05,520 --> 01:12:08,120
Speaker 1: it's a it's a love letter to l A this film.

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01:12:08,280 --> 01:12:10,759
Speaker 1: But but also I will say that, Hey, if anyone

1332
01:12:10,760 --> 01:12:13,519
Speaker 1: out there is a beast Master one purist and you're like,

1333
01:12:13,520 --> 01:12:15,320
Speaker 1: I don't want any part of this film traveling to

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01:12:15,720 --> 01:12:18,760
Speaker 1: l A, No, well I want to just I want

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01:12:18,760 --> 01:12:22,840
Speaker 1: to advise you give beast Master two a chance, because, um,

1336
01:12:22,880 --> 01:12:25,200
Speaker 1: you know, it's not beast Master one. It's its own thing.

1337
01:12:25,400 --> 01:12:29,120
Speaker 1: It's goofy, it's it's it's dumb, but it is it's

1338
01:12:29,200 --> 01:12:33,080
Speaker 1: it's tremendous fun. Now, unfortunately they're not a great there

1339
01:12:32,920 --> 01:12:34,479
Speaker 1: are there aren't a lot of great ways to watch

1340
01:12:34,560 --> 01:12:37,639
Speaker 1: this film in decent quality right now. Uh, For instance,

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01:12:37,720 --> 01:12:40,920
Speaker 1: Vinegar Syndrome put out an absolutely beautiful blu ray of

1342
01:12:41,040 --> 01:12:43,080
Speaker 1: the Beast Master a few years back, Like one of

1343
01:12:43,080 --> 01:12:46,640
Speaker 1: these was just beautiful packaging and original art work and

1344
01:12:46,680 --> 01:12:49,679
Speaker 1: so forth. Uh, they did not give the same treatment

1345
01:12:50,200 --> 01:12:53,559
Speaker 1: to Beast Master two. I believe there is a DVD

1346
01:12:53,840 --> 01:12:57,000
Speaker 1: edition from Cargo Records out there that you can you

1347
01:12:57,040 --> 01:13:01,519
Speaker 1: can easily buy a very affordable price. Uh, but so far,

1348
01:13:01,560 --> 01:13:04,680
Speaker 1: that's it. There's no blu ray release of this film

1349
01:13:04,720 --> 01:13:08,000
Speaker 1: as of this recording. But hey, hopefully, hopefully the future

1350
01:13:08,080 --> 01:13:11,080
Speaker 1: will will prove me wrong. All right, If you want

1351
01:13:11,120 --> 01:13:14,559
Speaker 1: to check out other episodes of Weird House Cinema, you'll

1352
01:13:14,560 --> 01:13:17,040
Speaker 1: find it every Friday in the Stuff to Blow Your

1353
01:13:17,040 --> 01:13:20,120
Speaker 1: Mind podcast feed were generally, you know, a science podcast.

1354
01:13:20,200 --> 01:13:22,799
Speaker 1: We're more concerned with, say like the consolidation of memory,

1355
01:13:22,920 --> 01:13:27,280
Speaker 1: or the or or even the speculative time travel and

1356
01:13:27,320 --> 01:13:31,639
Speaker 1: the limitations uh involved there. But on Friday's we put

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01:13:31,640 --> 01:13:34,560
Speaker 1: most of those serious matters aside and we consider a

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01:13:34,640 --> 01:13:38,759
Speaker 1: film such as Beastmaster two, which you know, a film

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01:13:38,760 --> 01:13:41,240
Speaker 1: that may raise some of these questions, but you know

1360
01:13:41,400 --> 01:13:45,800
Speaker 1: that does not require uh intensive research to answer. Huge

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Speaker 1: thanks as always to our excellent audio producer Seth Nicholas Johnson.

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01:13:49,720 --> 01:13:51,320
Speaker 1: If you would like to get in touch with us

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01:13:51,320 --> 01:13:54,120
Speaker 1: with feedback on this episode or any other, to suggest

1364
01:13:54,120 --> 01:13:55,960
Speaker 1: a topic for the future, or just to say hello,

1365
01:13:56,080 --> 01:13:58,679
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01:13:58,720 --> 01:14:08,200
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01:14:08,240 --> 01:14:10,920
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