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

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Speaker 3: Okay, today I was thinking about doing our ordering a

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Speaker 3: little bit differently. Normally we talk about some responses to

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Speaker 3: core episodes and then we get into some weird house

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Speaker 3: cinema messages. We've got a lot of weird house cinema

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Speaker 3: messages in the backlog that we haven't been able to

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Speaker 3: get to in the past few weeks, so I thought

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Speaker 3: maybe we would just jump right into Weird House responses

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Speaker 3: and then see what else comes up.

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Speaker 2: All right, let's do it. What do we have?

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Speaker 3: Okay? This first message comes from Adam. Adam says, Hello,

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Speaker 3: Robin Joe. My name is Adam from up in Canada

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Speaker 3: and I've been a listener of the show since being

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Speaker 3: introduced to it by my girlfriend back in September of

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty. The installment I look forward to with the

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Speaker 3: most enthusiasm each week is Weird House Cinema, and I

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Speaker 3: was thrilled to see you were looking at another Vincent

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Speaker 3: Price picture. I think this must have been when we

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Speaker 3: did Doctor Five's rises again. Adam goes on. Recently, my

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Speaker 3: mother was telling me about which TV shows frightened her

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Speaker 3: most when she was a child, leading to my discovery

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Speaker 3: of a fascinating Canadian TV show that heavily features Vincent Price.

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Speaker 3: And the show is called The hell Hilarious House of

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Speaker 3: Frightenstein from nineteen seventy one. I don't believe it was

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Speaker 3: very popular, so I'd be surprised if you'd seen it,

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Speaker 3: but this odd sketch show might be worth a quick glance,

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Speaker 3: not for Weird House, but for the sake of interest.

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Speaker 3: The show centers around the titular Count Frightenstein, a green

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Speaker 3: skinned vampire whose quest is to electrically reanimate a stitched

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Speaker 3: together body. Sketches with him and his servant Igor are

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Speaker 3: broken up with those featuring a cast of other horrifying hosts,

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Speaker 3: the Wolfman, Griselda, the Witch, the Librarian, and many others.

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Speaker 3: This mashup of genre staples is delightfully fun, but another

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Speaker 3: aspect I found interesting was the production. They filmed all

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Speaker 3: of the shows one hundred and thirty episodes, each taking

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Speaker 3: nine months. Unsurprisingly, over the course of filming this huge

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Speaker 3: amount of show, the main actor Billy Van estimated that

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Speaker 3: near the end it was only around five percent scripted,

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Speaker 3: and I watched a bit of the show. This does

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Speaker 3: seem correct based on what I saw. So Adam goes

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Speaker 3: on Price's floating transparent head introduces us with sinister laughter

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Speaker 3: to each episode. In his role as the narrator. Decked

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Speaker 3: out in strange costumes, he recites a short rhyming story

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Speaker 3: show's creators wanted a big horror name, so they managed

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Speaker 2: Oh wow, Yeah, I was thinking for a show of this,

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Speaker 2: the obvious limited budget and limited audience, Price was a

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so I guess they had to write all of

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it seems like towards the end of it, you're

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Speaker 2: probably just telling Price, Okay, just say something, we'll make

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Speaker 3: Adam goes on for anyone interested. There are full episodes

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Speaker 3: on YouTube, perfect to be on in the background when

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Speaker 3: for all you do. And as Price signed off every

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Speaker 3: episode of the show, the castle lights are growing dim.

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Speaker 3: don't come alone. I don't know what franken Stone means.

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Speaker 3: can we get a little sample of that sweet opening music?

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Speaker 2: Now, I do really like that, and I didn't get

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Speaker 3: Yeah. So the opening shows us a couple of signs,

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Speaker 3: Franken Stone is like a cool hookah bar that all

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Speaker 3: The Hilarious House of Frightenstein is very goose bumps in nature.

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Speaker 2: You Sorry, the Residence of Romania.

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Speaker 3: To me, it gives a strong impression of improv comedy,

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I was just looking this guy up. Yeah, he

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Speaker 2: You know, it's mad scientists are scientists. They're just really

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Speaker 3: Right at that age. I mean, the very logic of

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Speaker 3: to reanimate this corpse. Yeah, they're they're stitching together some roles,

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Speaker 3: You know, I've always thought if one were to obtain immortality,

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Speaker 2: this show looks like it was a lot of fun.

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Speaker 2: I can see where if you were exposed with us

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Speaker 2: I was looking into it a little bit on Wikipedia.

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Speaker 3: more different tone to me.

433
00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:58,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree. My friend Dave, who has guest hosted

434
00:22:58,240 --> 00:22:59,960
Speaker 2: on Weird House a couple of times, I think both

435
00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:02,240
Speaker 2: times that he's come on the show, I've had to

436
00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:06,520
Speaker 2: ask him about his Saw fandom, because he's seen them all.

437
00:23:07,359 --> 00:23:09,679
Speaker 2: He's one of these guys who will once he starts

438
00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:13,960
Speaker 2: watching a franchise, I think he feels compelled to finish it.

439
00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:16,479
Speaker 2: But he's not a fan of like the actual torture

440
00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:20,560
Speaker 2: kills in the show, but he likes sort of the consistency,

441
00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:23,560
Speaker 2: and there's one in particular I can't remember but he's like, yeah,

442
00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:28,240
Speaker 2: it's like a message movie. It's about the healthcare industry

443
00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:31,919
Speaker 2: in the US, and like the killings are all like

444
00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:34,159
Speaker 2: morally based. And also it's like, yeah, I mean I

445
00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:37,240
Speaker 2: can That especially makes me realize, Okay, there's some shared

446
00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:42,359
Speaker 2: DNA between these two franchises. But yeah, I'm on team Vibes.

447
00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:44,359
Speaker 3: You know, there was a time when I would do

448
00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:47,040
Speaker 3: the same thing, where I'd start watching a horror franchise

449
00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:49,639
Speaker 3: and I just have to finish the whole thing. We

450
00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:52,560
Speaker 3: may have talked about it back when this was years ago. Now,

451
00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:56,000
Speaker 3: I can't imagine making time for it now. But when

452
00:23:56,119 --> 00:23:58,280
Speaker 3: I watched the first hell Raiser movie and then I

453
00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:00,280
Speaker 3: was like, I guess I got to watch them all. Man,

454
00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:04,240
Speaker 3: that was not a good use of my time. Beyond

455
00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:07,040
Speaker 3: I don't know. There's some funny stuff going on in

456
00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:09,560
Speaker 3: the early set, in the early half, but like as

457
00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:11,760
Speaker 3: it goes on, it just gets more and more into

458
00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:14,000
Speaker 3: kind of how I feel about the Saw territory. It's

459
00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:18,000
Speaker 3: just grim and dark and depressing, and there's not very

460
00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:19,400
Speaker 3: much funny to balance it out.

461
00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:21,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, with hell Raiser, you know, I'll go three and four,

462
00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:24,880
Speaker 2: I'll even go five. But but That's that's.

463
00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:29,439
Speaker 3: It for me. Three has it's not great, but it

464
00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:31,399
Speaker 3: has a bit of a charm about it in that

465
00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:34,400
Speaker 3: some of the cinnabytes it's got like a technology angle.

466
00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:38,560
Speaker 3: So some of the cinnabytes are like CD head and camcorderhead.

467
00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:42,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then four is just a mess in outer

468
00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:47,200
Speaker 2: space and across time. Very ambitious and creative and it

469
00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:49,720
Speaker 2: doesn't make a lot of sense. But yeah, I feel

470
00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:51,680
Speaker 2: like if we were to do a Hell Razor film

471
00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:54,919
Speaker 2: on Weird House, it would it would be three or

472
00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:56,040
Speaker 2: four for sure.

473
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Speaker 3: Which is the one that has the motorheadzone.

474
00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:01,360
Speaker 2: Oh that's three? Yeah, it's like what it's a Motorhead

475
00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:02,640
Speaker 2: cover of an Ozzie song?

476
00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:06,360
Speaker 3: Right? Oh maybe I don't know, Uh, Hell Razor that one.

477
00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:09,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, Let's see what else do we have here?

478
00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:12,200
Speaker 2: You know, we have a lot to talk to kick

479
00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:15,719
Speaker 2: Let's see, I'm gonna go down to this one from Uh,

480
00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:18,680
Speaker 2: here's one. It has to do with Star Trek. I'll

481
00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:21,639
Speaker 2: read this one since I've been watching it. We've been

482
00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:23,800
Speaker 2: watching a fair amount of Star Trek recently. Let's see.

483
00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:32,960
Speaker 2: This one comes to us from Lee. Lee says, greetings, Rob, Joe,

484
00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:35,760
Speaker 2: and JJ. Just a note to throw a film your

485
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Speaker 2: way for consideration. The movie is the nineteen seventy four

486
00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:41,960
Speaker 2: made for TV movie The Quester Tapes. The film is

487
00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:44,800
Speaker 2: based on a story by Gene Roddenberry, and he wrote

488
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Speaker 2: the teleplay with Gene Kuhn. Kuhn was heavily involved with

489
00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:51,320
Speaker 2: Star Trek. The novelization was written by D. C. Fontana,

490
00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:54,600
Speaker 2: also known for work on Trek. Anyway, I saw the

491
00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:56,960
Speaker 2: movie on TV when it came out and later stumbled

492
00:25:57,040 --> 00:25:59,840
Speaker 2: upon the novel. I recently rediscovered the film online as

493
00:25:59,880 --> 00:26:02,760
Speaker 2: well as the Star Trek connections. The movie was a

494
00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:05,800
Speaker 2: nostalgic rewatch and even if not for the show, it's

495
00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:08,520
Speaker 2: a worthwhile experience. Love the show. I always look forward

496
00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:10,720
Speaker 2: to each episode. Keep up the great work. Sincerely, Lee.

497
00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:13,400
Speaker 2: And Yeah, I wasn't familiar with this, but I look

498
00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:16,040
Speaker 2: with this particular film, but I looked it up. Stars

499
00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:20,280
Speaker 2: Robert Foxworth of Death Moon Fame, Oh the work Beast, Yeah,

500
00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:22,880
Speaker 2: Death Moon Fame for us. Death Moon is not I think,

501
00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:26,879
Speaker 2: widely known outside of weird house cinema and like deep

502
00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:30,879
Speaker 2: cuts of like TV made for TV horror movies, but

503
00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:35,240
Speaker 2: it also has John Vernon and Walter Koenig's it looks.

504
00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:37,400
Speaker 2: It looks interesting, So color me interested.

505
00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:40,040
Speaker 3: You know, Death Moon was not a great movie, but

506
00:26:40,119 --> 00:26:43,199
Speaker 3: I feel like it it's so important that we did

507
00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:46,880
Speaker 3: it on the show because everything now, especially anything that's

508
00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:50,000
Speaker 3: like made for TV at all, makes more sense in

509
00:26:50,119 --> 00:26:52,280
Speaker 3: light of Death Moon. Like Death Moon is sort of

510
00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:57,440
Speaker 3: a keystone of understanding that allows you to better see

511
00:26:57,480 --> 00:27:00,240
Speaker 3: and process all of the rest of low budget and

512
00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:01,360
Speaker 3: made for TV cinema.

513
00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:03,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's an example of a movie that we

514
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:05,720
Speaker 2: watch for Weird House that I don't think has ever

515
00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:09,240
Speaker 2: had I don't remember specifically, but I seem to recall

516
00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:12,080
Speaker 2: it has not had anything beyond a VHS release. Version

517
00:27:12,119 --> 00:27:14,480
Speaker 2: we watched was ripped off of what Dutch television.

518
00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:18,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, it had a hard baked Dutch subtitles to explain

519
00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:22,320
Speaker 3: the inside jokes if you weren't around then the movie

520
00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:25,480
Speaker 3: feature is a character Robert Foxworth, being called a workaholic,

521
00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:28,159
Speaker 3: and the Dutch translation of that in the subtitles is

522
00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:29,000
Speaker 3: verk beast.

523
00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:32,880
Speaker 2: Yes, all right, what else do we have here?

524
00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:35,040
Speaker 3: Oh, we have a message from Katie that's going to

525
00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:43,840
Speaker 3: bring up an interesting possibility. Katie says, Hi, there, let

526
00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:46,200
Speaker 3: me first just start by saying, how much. I love

527
00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:49,000
Speaker 3: your podcast, both the main feed and Weird House. I

528
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:52,000
Speaker 3: look forward to listening and learning with you every chance

529
00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:55,080
Speaker 3: I get. Yesterday, I thought to myself, i'd try writing

530
00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:57,560
Speaker 3: to suggest a movie to cover, which I have done

531
00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:00,080
Speaker 3: once previously. Before I could sit down and do that,

532
00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:03,040
Speaker 3: I listened to a recent listener mail request that I

533
00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:05,160
Speaker 3: needed to catch up on, and in it you read

534
00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:09,639
Speaker 3: another listener's email requesting the five Thousand Fingers of Doctor t.

535
00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:13,400
Speaker 3: You mentioned that someone had requested that before, and they

536
00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:16,119
Speaker 3: had because it was me. This tickled me almost as

537
00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:17,880
Speaker 3: much as when a couple of years ago you read

538
00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:21,640
Speaker 3: my listener mail requesting return to OZ. I just thought

539
00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:23,679
Speaker 3: that was a silly coincidence and wanted to let you

540
00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:26,439
Speaker 3: know that it made my day. Oh I guess we

541
00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:28,560
Speaker 3: did return to OZ on the basis of your message.

542
00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:30,840
Speaker 2: Then, Oh yeah, there we go. That one was fun.

543
00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:33,879
Speaker 3: Anyway, Katie goes on. I stand by that suggestion as

544
00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:36,239
Speaker 3: a Weird House injury. But what I really wanted to

545
00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:40,680
Speaker 3: request just now was Dark City. I know you have

546
00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:43,800
Speaker 3: mentioned it before, and I think that Rob has liked

547
00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:46,880
Speaker 3: it in the past. Although somewhat mainstream, I think it

548
00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:50,040
Speaker 3: is strange enough to qualify it's one of my favorite movies.

549
00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:52,600
Speaker 3: But having three kids now I pretty much only get

550
00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:55,160
Speaker 3: to watch family content. I love to get my fix

551
00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:58,680
Speaker 3: of strange cinema through listening to YouTube. Thanks for everything

552
00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:00,320
Speaker 3: you do, and I hope you both are having a

553
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:04,240
Speaker 3: lovely spring. Best Katie now, Katie, that is a really

554
00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:08,280
Speaker 3: interesting idea. I also very much loved the movie Dark

555
00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:10,680
Speaker 3: City for a while. It was kind of obsessed with it.

556
00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:13,160
Speaker 3: I think when I was my late teens or so,

557
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:15,760
Speaker 3: I saw it for the first time and I just

558
00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:20,200
Speaker 3: was I was like, wow, it captured my imagination. I

559
00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:23,120
Speaker 3: haven't watched it in a long time now, but it

560
00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:24,760
Speaker 3: seemed to me back then to be a movie that

561
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:29,600
Speaker 3: was really sort of overperforming its cultural reception. Not that

562
00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:31,800
Speaker 3: people generally thought it was bad, but it just seemed

563
00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:35,160
Speaker 3: to me not a very much noticed movie, and it

564
00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:38,480
Speaker 3: was like way more worthy than it got credit for.

565
00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:42,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, it did seem to be like weirdly under the radar,

566
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:46,720
Speaker 2: or it had that feeling. Anyway, it definitely had its champions.

567
00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:49,360
Speaker 2: I remember Roger Ebert was a huge fan of Dark City,

568
00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:52,960
Speaker 2: and yeah, his review was glowing. I think he might

569
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:55,320
Speaker 2: have even been on a commentary track for it, you know,

570
00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:57,920
Speaker 2: he was that big of a fan. But yeah, I

571
00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:01,800
Speaker 2: love Dark City. I'll still stand by it being a

572
00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:04,040
Speaker 2: great movie, but I haven't I haven't watched it in

573
00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:06,360
Speaker 2: about ten years, and it's probably longer than that since

574
00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:08,840
Speaker 2: I gave it like a dedicated proper viewing.

575
00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:11,560
Speaker 3: It's also one where I know that there are a

576
00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:14,640
Speaker 3: couple of different cuts out there, and the different cuts

577
00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:17,840
Speaker 3: have the people who like them better or worse like

578
00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:21,160
Speaker 3: they're I think with the sort of director's cut or

579
00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:25,640
Speaker 3: whatever it's called, like it omits the voiceover narration from

580
00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:29,440
Speaker 3: Keefer Sutherland's character. And that's a thing that some people

581
00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:32,320
Speaker 3: they used to like say, oh when you show people

582
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:34,960
Speaker 3: Dark City and the original cut, like mute the audio

583
00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:38,160
Speaker 3: during the opening narration because it spoils so much. And

584
00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:40,560
Speaker 3: I don't know. I saw it with the audio and

585
00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:43,479
Speaker 3: I liked it fine, But that may there may be

586
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:44,600
Speaker 3: something to that. I don't know.

587
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:47,120
Speaker 2: I don't know. Yeah, I already know the twists that

588
00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:49,760
Speaker 2: are coming, so I don't know that that would greatly

589
00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:53,240
Speaker 2: benefit me at this point, but worth keeping in mind anyway.

590
00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:55,080
Speaker 3: Good suggestion, Katie, Yeah.

591
00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:57,880
Speaker 2: Keep the suggestions coming. You know, we've a number of

592
00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:00,680
Speaker 2: our our entries in Weird House Cinema have been based

593
00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:05,480
Speaker 2: on listeners suggestions. Sometimes you know that suggestions, don't they

594
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:07,440
Speaker 2: just sort of remain somewhere on the list. Other times,

595
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:08,680
Speaker 2: you know, we really got to check him out. I

596
00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:10,800
Speaker 2: know we've had a few different people calling for Demon

597
00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:15,560
Speaker 2: Seed from the seventies. I remember being impressed by the

598
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:19,120
Speaker 2: robot in this, But I don't know, I'm gonna have

599
00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:21,520
Speaker 2: to I'm gonna have to take a look at Demon

600
00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:23,720
Speaker 2: Seed before we can commit to talking about it on

601
00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:24,960
Speaker 2: an episode of Weird House.

602
00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:27,440
Speaker 3: I feel like that's come up as a possibility and

603
00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:30,120
Speaker 3: I glanced at it and I was like, that looks

604
00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:31,960
Speaker 3: kind of gross. I don't know if I want to

605
00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:32,680
Speaker 3: talk about that.

606
00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:36,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it is. I was looking up a little

607
00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:39,120
Speaker 2: information about it. It is noteworthy that Robert Vaughan is

608
00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:42,160
Speaker 2: the voice of the robot and he literally phoned in

609
00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:46,800
Speaker 2: his performance allegedly. I haven't done a lot of fact

610
00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:49,560
Speaker 2: checking on this, but like, this was the seventies and

611
00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:52,640
Speaker 2: you know, there was obviously there was no zoom or

612
00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:57,360
Speaker 2: what have you, and he just straight phoned it in.

613
00:31:57,560 --> 00:31:59,560
Speaker 2: So kind of admirable.

614
00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:03,040
Speaker 3: I have to say, did we previously do a segment

615
00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:05,880
Speaker 3: when Robert Vaughan was in some movie we covered about

616
00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:09,480
Speaker 3: his about his like lawyer spokesperson gigs.

617
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:11,920
Speaker 2: We did, Yeah, what was it? It was the space.

618
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:14,360
Speaker 3: Movie, Oh a Battle beyond the Stars.

619
00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:16,440
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, we talked about him in that. Yeah.

620
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:19,320
Speaker 3: Somewhere around the house here, I've got a magnet, like

621
00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:21,920
Speaker 3: a fridge magnet that's got Robert Vaughan on it, looking

622
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:24,960
Speaker 3: like Polly Walnuts from the Sopranos. And he's wearing a

623
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:28,360
Speaker 3: suit and he's saying this, whatever you know, Johnson and

624
00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:31,720
Speaker 3: Johnson will fight for you. Yeah.

625
00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:34,160
Speaker 2: And then the small Texas lawyer may not look like this.

626
00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:37,400
Speaker 2: A lawyer may not resemble Robert Vaughn. Robert Vaughn is

627
00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:40,760
Speaker 2: not a lawyer and should not be a legal advice

628
00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:42,880
Speaker 2: should not be accepted from Robert Vaughn personally.

629
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Speaker 3: But he does look like he means business. Okay, we're

630
00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:49,560
Speaker 3: gonna need to call today's episode there I believe.

631
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Speaker 2: So we're gonna go ahead and shut the book on

632
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Speaker 2: this episode, but keep them coming if you have thoughts

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Speaker 2: Monster fact artifact, Aamalia stupendium, other listener mail episodes, or

636
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